The Rhode Island Senate on Tuesday approved a bill to legalize marijuana. The legislation, which cleared the chamber’s Judiciary Committee last week, passed in a 29-9 vote. Senate Majority Leader Michael McCaffrey (D) and Health & Human Services Chairman Joshua Miller (D) are the lead sponsors of the measure, which theyContinue Reading
The governor of Louisiana on Tuesday signed a bill to let patients in the state’s medical cannabis program legally smoke whole-plant marijuana flower. The legislation marks a notable expansion of the state’s limited medical marijuana program. As it stands, patients are able to vaporize cannabis preparations via a “metered-dose inhaler,”Continue Reading
Mexico’s Supreme Court has taken a step toward ending marijuana prohibition nationally after the legislature failed to enact the policy change by a court-imposed deadline. Minister Norma Lucía Piña Hernández, who serves on the high court, recently filed a general declaration of unconstitutionality with respect to Mexico’s cannabis laws. AndContinue Reading
The governor of Connecticut on Tuesday signed a bill to legalize marijuana—making it the 19th state to enact the reform. Gov. Ned Lamont (D) has been broadly supportive of ending prohibition, but the path to get the legalization bill to his desk was rocky. Just as lawmakers were preparing toContinue Reading
Two Pennsylvania lawmakers are working to build support for a marijuana legalization bill they plan to introduce soon. In a memo sent to colleagues on Monday, Reps. Jake Wheatley (D) and Dan Frankel (D) said the proposal “will create a legal and regulatory framework structured to control and regulate theContinue Reading
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