2015: Same-sex marriage legalized Alex Wong // Getty Images 2015: Same-sex marriage legalized The Supreme Court case of Obergefell v. Hodges resulted in a 5-4 decision ruling that states cannot prohibit same-sex couples from marrying and must recognize their unions. After groups of same-sex ...
WATCH: 2023 Statewide Policy Tour discussion on the legalization of marijuana 2023: On-demand webinar: Legalization of marijuana During the 2023 legislative session, policymakers legalized the recreational adult use of marijuana. The legalization date of August 1 is quickly approaching and it’s importa...
Legalization: This state has legalized marijuana for medical use. Law: Proposition 203 –Passed in 2010 (Medical) Possession: 2.5 oz usable, 0-12 plants Can you use other Legal State Cards: Yes How The Law Reads: Ballot Proposition 203 “Arizona Medical Marijuana Act” – Approved Nov. 2...
ST. PAUL, Minn. --The Minnesota House on Tuesday passed a 300-page bill that would allow adults 21 and older to buy, sell and use marijuana, joining nearly two dozen other states that have legalized the cannabis plant for recreational use. UPDATE:Minnesota Senate expected to vote on recreat...
Yet in more than two dozen other countries, governments have accepted the distinction between the two types of Cannabis and, while continuing to penalize the growing of marijuana, have legalized the growing of industrial hemp. The U.S. government remains unconvinced. To understand the difference ...
Aseparate national ACLU reportdetermined that arrests for marijuana decreased when states either fully legalized marijuana or decriminalized it, but racial disparities persist. Taylor is ready to turn the page and hopes the board will consider expungement of his record, but he believes the changes ...
Kendall says law enforcement doesn't have clear direction on how to enforce the guidelines of who can sell it, who can have it, and how much they can have. She indicates despite no state that legalized recreational Marijuana going back to making it illegal some states are now considering tha...
In 2012, Colorado and Washington became the first states to legalize MJ without medical constraints; 2012 also brought a record of 18 states with legalized medical MJ (ONDCP 2012). As current deliberations over the legalization of MJ often highlight the benefits of medical MJ, it is perhaps ...
Table 1.States with legalized medical marijuana (and effective dates) and enforcement of seatbelt laws. Table 2provides descriptive statistics observations from the MML treatment states and the non-MML control states that are usable in estimation. The final sample consists of 340,544 individual observ...