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Feb 11, 2022

State Policy Weekly Update 2/11/2022

Here is NORML's weekly update on state legislative activity in Wisconsin, Washington, Tennessee, South Dakota, South Carolina, New York, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Iowa, Illinois, Hawaii, and Colorado. The post State Policy Weekly Update 2/11/2022 appeared...

Feb 10, 2022

Pennsylvania: Patients Respond to Recall of Medical Cannabis Products, Say Such Incidents Strengthen Arguments to Permit Home Cultivation 

"Today, we are without any kind of home-grow rights. If we were able to produce our own cannabis, our own cannabis oils, and yes even our own vape products, we could guarantee our own safety."  The post Pennsylvania: Patients Respond to Recall of Medic...

Feb 10, 2022

South Carolina: State Senate Advances Compassionate Care Act

By a vote of nearly 2 to 1, members of the South Carolina State Senate advanced medical cannabis access legislation, the bipartisan Compassionate Care Act. It will now go to the State House of Representatives. The post South Carolina: State Senate Advanc...

Feb 07, 2022

Senate Majority Leader Provides Timeline for Introducing Long-Awaited Marijuana Descheduling Plan

Senator Schumer said: "In the coming weeks, we're ramping up our outreach and we expect to introduce final legislation. Our goal is to do it in April. Then we begin the nationwide push, spearheaded by New York, to get the federal law done. As the majority...

Feb 07, 2022

What's the Future of Marijuana Legalization in Oklahoma?

"We are hopeful that Oklahomans will have the opportunity this fall to decide in favor of ending the failed policy of marijuana criminalization.If so, we are confident that they, like voters in other states have already done, will decide in favor of legal...

Feb 04, 2022

State Policy Weekly Update 2/4/2022

Here is NORML's weekly update on state legislative activity in Alabama, Alaska, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Mississippi, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Ohio. The post State Policy Weekly Update 2/4/2022 a...

Feb 04, 2022

House Advances SAFE Banking Act as Part of the America COMPETES Act

This vote marks the sixth time that members of the House have advanced SAFE Banking to the Upper Chamber either as an amendment or as a stand-alone piece of legislation. The post House Advances SAFE Banking Act as Part of the America COMPETES Act appeared...

Feb 03, 2022

Utah: Lawmakers Advance Bill to Governor's Desk Protecting State Employees From Workplace Discrimination for Medical Cannabis Use

"This legislation is consistent with the laws of a growing number of jurisdictions that recognize that off-hours cannabis use poses no legitimate threat to either workplace safety or productivity. Tens of millions of Americans consume cannabis responsibly...

Feb 02, 2022

Minnesota: Patients' Access to Herbal Cannabis Products Begins March 1

NORML has long opined that patients must have access to cannabis flowers, stating: "Orally administered non-herbal forms of cannabis possess delayed onset and their effects are far less predictable than those of herbal cannabis. The post Minnesota: Patien...

Feb 02, 2022

South Dakota: Lawmakers Reject Legislative Efforts to Restrict Medical Cannabis Access

State lawmakers have rejected a series of legislative proposals that sought to curtail how and where patients could access and use medical cannabis. The post South Dakota: Lawmakers Reject Legislative Efforts to Restrict Medical Cannabis Access appeared f...

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