Yet despite strong research and public support for these recommendations, too many of them have not been widely adopted by the states that have legalized marijuana for adult recreational use. Our analysis of laws and regulations in the 19 states that had legalized adult non-...
After a string of election cycles during which ballot measures and legislative efforts to legalize recreational cannabis expanded access to the drug to nearly half of the United States, progress towards legal marijuana hit a wall in 2024.Ballot measures to legalize cannabis failed in three states—N...
FILE - Marijuana plants are seen at a secured growing facility in Washington County, N.Y., May 12, 2023. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple ...
marijuana is legal in 13 states. It is also legal in all the states where recreational use of weed is permitted.In Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Hampshire and North Dakota, marijuana is allowed for medical use. It's also decriminalized for other uses, which means that the substance ...
Recreational Marijuana Use and Acute Myocardial Infarction: Insights from Nationwide Inpatient Sample in the United States. Cureus 2017;9:e1816.Desai R, Patel U, Sharma S, et al.: Recreational marijuana use and acute myocardial infarction: insights from nationwide inpatient sample in the United ...
On March 31, 2021, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law theMarihuana Regulation and Taxation Act(MRTA), which legalizes the adult recreational use of marijuana and revises Section 201-d of the New York Labor Law. The MRTA’s antidiscrimination employment provisions to...
Marijuana may remain illegal federally, but in most states, it’s accessible for adult medical or recreational use. In November 2023, voters inOhiomade it the 24th state to approve legal recreational marijuana.Florida voterswill have the chance to weigh in on recreational use this November. In ...
the first four states to legalize marijuana for recreational use, so they could track trends in marijuana use before and after legalization. They compared trends in these four states to trends in states that had not legalized recreational marijuana use. The team examined marijuana use and frequent...
and that current cannabis use and daily use are substantially higher among individuals residing in states that have legalized recreational cannabis use, relative to those where cannabis use
adult-use marijuanarecreational marijuanaimplementationtransition processgovernancelessons learnedbest practiceschallengesdecision pointsAs of October 2020, eleven states and the District of Columbia have undergone a transition from medical to adult-use marijuana regimes navigating the creation o...