Impact of Marijuana Legalization in California on Teens UncertainBy Louis Freedberg and Nico Savidge, EdSourceNow that California has legalized marijuana for...EdSource
In November 2010, California voters will consider a ballot initiative that would legalize marijuana in the state. The proposed law includes restrictions on sale and use, such as a minimum purchase age of 21, but the bill gives marijuana roughly the same legal status as alcohol. Early polls sug...
The Attorney General filed a petition for review seeking resolution of the following question: "Did Proposition 64, which generally legalized the simple possession of less than an ounce of cannabis, also legalize such possession in state prisons and other custodial institutions?"...
was legalized in California in 1996. “Medical” marijuana is allowed in 13 states and the District of Columbia. Ed Rosenthal, a renowned expert on hemp, a columnist for the American magazine High Times, dedicated to this plant, began his campaign for the legalization of soft drugs in 1972....
As California attorney general, an office she was elected to in 2010, Harrisopposedallowing marijuana to be sold for recreational use. Marijuana wasn't legalized for recreational use in California until 2016. Harris' views on marijuana as U.S. senator ...
Of the states that have passed decriminalization measures, some have medical marijuana laws. Two states have decriminalized marijuana but not legalized it in any form, according to thePolicy Project. Decriminalization is often seen as a middle ground between full-blown legalization and strict, pun...
California legalized therecreational useof marijuana in 2018, illegal grows of the crop have been on the rise in the state. Detectives from theLos Angeles County Sheriff's Narcotic Bureauidentified over 500 illegal marijuana cultivations in 2021, increasing from the 150 identified in 2020, ...
Switzerland, where possession of small amounts of marijuana has been decriminalized but not legalized, has its own byzantine rules and political wrangles about marijuana research, particularly regarding recreational use. But the situation there is not nearly as challenging as in the U.S., where ...
Open Document Despite my traditional liberal stance, I personally don't think that the legalization of marijuana in California would be the best idea. To be fair, I don’t think other drugs such as tobacco and alcohol should be legal either but let’s focus on the cons of legal marijuana...
California passed Proposition 64 in 2016, which legalized recreational marijuana in the state. But even before that, Blake’s medicinal marijuana farm was legal under state and county ordinances. “It’s not like a free-for-all, grow wherever you want, whatever you...