10 hours ago · But the Senate committee hearing on the medical marijuana bill will give supporters their highest profile chance to make the case for loosening Wisconsin's marijuana laws. The hearing also falls on April 20 — a day when some celebrate marijuana as a reference to the more than 50-year-old slang term for the time in the afternoon to smoke weed.
Aug 25, 2015 · Christie is by far the most outspokenly terrible candidate for cannabis legalization, but he doesn’t stray too far from the majority of the other republican candidates. In fact, even many of the democratic candidates (including Hillary Clinton) used to regularly and publically speak out against marijuana use and legalization.
Apr 04, 2022 · Marijuana legalization advocates have encouraged President Joe Biden to direct current Attorney General Merrick Garland to reinstate the Cole memorandum. Thirty-seven states in all have legalized...
Dec 03, 2020 · As President-Elect Joe Biden fills out his cabinet and other administration roles, potential candidates for Attorney General have been mentioned. Among the options are homeland security advisor Lisa Monaco, former acting AG Sally …
The Vermont senator was the first major presidential candidate to endorse marijuana legalization during his first presidential bid. He was a more vocal …
Not everyone feels that the AG decision carries that much of an impact on reform.
A pro-cannabis AG would align with the public’s overwhelming support for cannabis reform, be it medical or adult use, Mellody says. Yet, politicians on both sides of the aisle remain opposed to reform due to what she believes are education gaps concerning legalization.
Cannabis reform may see a significant boost in the 117th Congress if the two Georgia runoffs go blue, leading to Democrats holding power in each chamber. If that scenario plays out, anti-cannabis lawmaker McConnell would no longer have the Senate majority’s leadership.
The Vermont senator was the first major presidential candidate to endorse marijuana legalization during his first presidential bid. He was a more vocal supporter of cannabis reform than his primary rival Hillary Clinton.
The Texas Democrat is in favor of ending federal prohibition of marijuana and creating a regulated, legal marijuana market. He also supports expunging the criminal records of people who were arrested for non-violent marijuana crimes. While in Congress he cosponsored a number of drug reform bills.
Schweich said that it is "clear that these policies work and that has helped bring presidential candidates to the position of support." In return, 2020 candidates who support cannabis reform are helping to further normalize the issue.
Hickenlooper oversaw Colorado's marijuana reform effort in 2012, though he deemed the decision to legalize the drug "reckless." Since then, he's signed a number of various marijuana-related bills into law.
The California lawmaker supports marijuana legalization. He backed the SAFE Banking Act, which would allow legal marijuana businesses to access banking services. He's also a co-sponsor for the Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2019.
The New York Democrat is now one of the most vocal lawmakers in Congress for cannabis reform, despite not co-sponsoring any pro-marijuana bills during her time in the House of Representatives from 2007 to 2009.
Arizona, Montana, and South Dakota approved legalization through initiatives in 2020. New Jersey approved legalization through a legislatively referred constitutional amendment in 2020. The map below details the status of recreational marijuana legalization in the states as of November 2020.
Colorado and Washington both opted to legalize recreational marijuana in 2012. In a subsequent Colorado measure, voters enacted a statewide marijuana taxation system. The three ballot measures that passed in 2014 were Oregon's Measure 91, Alaska's Measure 2, and the District of Columbia's Initiative 71.
The attorney general is required to petition the Florida Supreme Court for an advisory opinion on the measure's compliance with the single-subject rule, the appropriateness of the title and summary, and whether or not the measure "is facially valid under the United States Constitution.".
In Florida, the number of signatures required for an initiated constitutional amendment is equal to 8% of the votes cast in the preceding presidential election. Florida also has a signature distribution requirement, which requires that signatures equaling at least 8% of the district-wide vote in the last presidential election be collected from at least half (14) of the state's 27 congressional districts. Signatures remain valid until February 1 of an even-numbered year. Signatures must be verified by February 1 of the general election year the initiative aims to appear on the ballot.
Supervisors are permitted to use random sampling if the process can estimate the number of valid signatures with 99.5% accuracy. Enough signatures are considered valid if the random sample estimates that at least 115% of the required number of signatures are valid.
Pritzker signed a bill into law legalizing the use and possession of recreational marijuana. Initiatives legalizing recreational marijuana were on the ballot in November 2018 in Michigan and North Dakota. The Michigan initiative was approved, and the North Dakota initiative was defeated.
The Florida Marijuana Legalization Initiative (#16-02) is not on the ballot in Florida as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 8, 2022. On June 17, 2021, the Florida Supreme Court ruled 5-2, with the majority opinion written by Chief Justice Charles Canady, that the measure's ballot language was misleading and therefore could not ...
In 1998, Washington became one of the first states to legalize medical marijuana. In 2012, Washington, along with Colorado, became of one of the first two states to legalize recreational marijuana.
Yang’s home state of New York has already legalized medical marijuana and is poised to legalize recreational marijuana sometime in the near future, according to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren comes from a progressive, marijuana-friendly state, so it's not surprising that she's one of the most vocal advocates for legalization. In 2016, Massachusetts voted to legalize cannabis recreationally and in November of 2018, began selling cannabis to adults.