House of Representatives on Friday voted to pass legislation to legalize marijuana at the federal level, one step closer to decriminalizing cannabis in the United States and the latest example of evolving attitudes on the subject. While the bill, called the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment ...
Obama: If Enough States Legalize Marijuana, Federal Law May Follow SuitLegalizing marijuana at the federal level is a real possibility,according to President...Cohen, Kelly
Legalization of marijuana on a federal level may benefit society more than cause it harm. When people hear the word marijuana, cannabis, hemp, etc. they tend to compare it to dangerous hardcore drugs. In all reality, unlike these other hardcore drugs, marijuana has many advantages that could ...
Hawaii legalized medical marijuana in 2000 and also decriminalized marijuana possession despite ongoing federal prohibition. Under the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA) passed in 1970, the federal government maintains a complete prohibition of marijuana. Of course, th...
President Donald Trump on Friday said he would likely support a federal bill to end the national ban on marijuana. "We're looking at it. But I probably will end up supporting that, yes," he said. The federal ban that puts marijuana on the same level as LSD and heroin has created a ...
California Rep. Eric Swalwell is a co-sponsor of the Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act, which would reclassify marijuana at the federal level and protect pot users in states that choose to legalize it. Former Rep. John Delaney of Maryland co-sponsored cannabis-related bills during his time...
Vice President Kamala Harris has supported efforts by the Biden administration to pardon people convicted of having small amounts of marijuana and the effort to reclassify the drug in federal law to a lower level. Harris has her own political liabilities around crime, having been criticize...
While the impact of moving cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) on individual states would likely be “limited,” maintaining the policy disconnect between state-level legalization and federal prohibition, it could have a more meaningful effect for D.C....
Namely, street dealers of marijuana.It's not the first time the DEA has done this, of course. Drugs that used to be sold on the street as "speed" are now FDA-approved pharmaceutical medications for ADHD -- and they're being prescribed to children by the tens of millions!Every ...
Last session, state Senate Majority Leader Joe Pittman (R., Indiana) said he had reservations about the health impacts of legalization and believed that the issue should be decided at a federal level. In a new statement to Spotlight PA, Pittman’s spokesperson declined to ...