Two backers of a pioneering Nevada law to prevent employers from rejecting job-seekers based on a pre-employment marijuana test cast the effort June 12, 2019, as an anti-discrimination measure in a state where recreational cannabis sales are booming and rules about legal adult-use consumption are evolving. The law, which
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A state at the forefront of the U.S. opioid and drug overdose epidemic is turning to its medical marijuana program to reduce suffering from drug use and addiction. New Mexico health officials on June 6, 2019, expanded the list of qualifying conditions for the state’s medical cannabis program to
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Men and women with outdated marijuana convictions will be able to have their records expunged faster under an Oregon bill approved by the House. On June 4, 2019, lawmakers voted 42-15 to send Democratic Gov. Kate Brown a measure easing some of the bureaucratic hurdles involved in setting aside
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Oregon is awash in so much legal weed that if growing were to stop today, it could take more than six years by one estimate to smoke or eat it all. Now, the state is planning to curb production. Five years after voters legalized recreational marijuana, lawmakers have given
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Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo does not believe legislation legalizing recreational marijuana in New York will pass before lawmakers adjourn for the year this month, he said June 3, 2019. Cuomo supports legalization but said he doesn’t think there are enough votes in the state Senate to pass a measure.
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A long-awaited plan to legalize recreational marijuana use in Illinois has received a Senate committee endorsement. Adults 21 and older could legally buy marijuana from licensed dispensaries and could possess up to 1 ounce, or 28.35 grams, under the plan the Executive Committee approved 13-3 on May 29, 2019.
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Elected as a state assembly member for the Madison area, Democratic Rep. Melissa Sargent has been “legislating through listening” to her 60,000 constituents since 2012. The stories and concerns she heard from voters in her district have launched Sargent on an unexpected journey, sending her on a mission that
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Amid a stalled effort to legalize adult-use marijuana, New Jersey’s Democratic-led Assembly passed a bill May 23, 2019, to expand the state’s medical marijuana program. The Assembly voted 65-5 with six abstentions, sending the bill to the similarly Democratic-led Senate, which has already passed a similar bill in committee.
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Shut out of the traditional banking system by federal laws, the U.S’s largest legal marijuana market could benefit if California approves a measure creating a special class of banks to handle the cannabis industry’s money. The state Senate voted 35-1 on May 21, 2019, to pass SB 51, which
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Advocates for legalizing marijuana have long argued it would strike a blow for social justice after a decades-long drug war that disproportionately targeted people of color and low-income communities. But social equity has been both a sticking point and selling point this year in New York and New Jersey,
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