HARRISBURG, PA — The legalization of marijuana for adult recreation use may be a matter of when, not if, for the Pennsylvania General Assembly. The Senate Law & Justice Committee held a hearing Monday to “fully understand which states are models of success,” Sen. Mike Regan, R-Cumberland...
The shift began in 1996 when the U.S. state of California legalized marijuana for medical use. Out of the 50 states, 23 states and the District of Columbia now have some form of legal medical marijuana use and four states have legalized recreational use of marijuana for adults. In the fir...
1996: Proposition 215 takes first steps to legalize marijuana photolona // Shutterstock 1996: Proposition 215 takes first steps to legalize marijuana Marijuana began its long and continuing journey to legalization when California voters passed Proposition 215, allowing for the medical use of marijuana....
1996: Proposition 215 takes first steps to legalize marijuana photolona // Shutterstock 1996: Proposition 215 takes first steps to legalize marijuana Marijuana began its long and continuing journey to legalization when California voters passed Proposition 215, allowing for the medical use of marijuana....
In the same month, medical marijuana was legalized in Washington, D.C. The democratic-controlled Congress allowed the voters to enjoy the legislation they passed. Eight dispensaries were allowed to be built. In November, Arizona followed suit, earning its title as the 15th state to legalize MMJ...
His administration has not gone after states that have legalized marijuana, but the president’s party no longer controls either house of Congress and he has only two years left in his term, making the future of drug legalization in the U.S. hazy at best. ...
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1996: Proposition 215 takes first steps to legalize marijuana photolona // Shutterstock 1996: Proposition 215 takes first steps to legalize marijuana Marijuana began its long and continuing journey to legalization when California voters passed Proposition 215, allowing for the medical use of marijuana....
California increased the tobacco tax from $0.87 to $2.87 per pack of cigarettes in April 2017 (Boonn, 2019), and legalized recreational marijuana effective January 2018 (Meng and Ponce, 2020). Any changes in smoking prevalence as a result of these policy changes would likely impact both 18–...
Cannabis went from being called “reefer” to “marijuana,” as a way to associate the plant with Mexican migrants arriving in the U.S. in the 1930s. By the time Nixon sought reelection amid the anti-Vietnam War and Black power movements, criminalizing heroin was a way to target ...