Sentences with phrase «legalize use of marijuana»

The majority of states in the U.S. legalize use of marijuana for some purpose.

News of a letter from former DEA officials (some of whom profit from drug - testing business and, therefore, have a vested interest in keeping it illegal) to President Obama urging him to use federal power to put down Washington's and Colorado's recent local votes to legalize use of marijuana in their states hit the media week.

The federal government tabled legislation today, April 13, 2017, that would legalize the use of marijuana for recreational purposes by July 1, 2018.

The Assembly is on board with broader legislation called the Compassionate Care Act that would legalize use of marijuana for any certified patients.

Ghana's longest serving Parliamentarian, Hon Alban Kingsford Sumani Bagbin has promised that his presidency will legalize the use of Marijuana.

August 1, 2013 Gov. Pat Quinn signs law legalizing medical marijuana Gov. Pat Quinn signed a bill legalizing the use of marijuana for medical purposes in Illinois at a ceremony today in the University of Chicago Medicine Center for Care and Discovery.

Twenty states and Washington, D.C. have legalized the use of marijuana for medical reasons, and now there's a commercial for medical marijuana.

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Eight states and the District of Columbia have legalized adult use of marijuana.

The federal government still classifies marijuana as an illegal drug, even as a growing number of states are legalizing its use.

While the drug remains illegal in the eyes of the federal government, 29 states have passed legislation that allows for medical marijuana use and nine states have legalized recreational weed.

On Wednesday, ex-President Vicente Fox said Mexico must consider legalizing opium poppies, while the Supreme Court made a second ruling in favor of recreational marijuana use after a landmark decision in 2015.

On Monday and Tuesday of this week, Attorney General Sessions said that marijuana sale and use is still against federal law and said he does not think that cannabis is something that should be legalized, despite the fact that more than half of all states have some form of a regulated market already in place and the majority of Americans agree that marijuana prohibition should end.

Because alcohol consumption is more harmful to people than marijuana use, but the two are substitutes, legalizing pot will lead customers to shift to the better of the two choices.

Eight states and the District of Columbia have legalized recreational marijuana for Americans ages 21 and older, and 29 states have legalized the medical use of marijuana.

A total of 30 states have legalized medical marijuana, while eight have done so for recreational use.

That's why other states should follow the example of Colorado and Washington and legalize the recreational use of marijuana.

On January 1, Colorado legalized the sale of small amounts of marijuana for recreational use.

California will soon join states like Colorado, Oregon, and Nevada that have already expanded into adult - use marijuana markets (in total, seven states and the District of Columbia have legalized recreational marijuana).

(Twenty - nine states allow medical marijuana usage, while eight, plus the District of Columbia, have legalized recreational use.)

Using case studies from states with fully legalized marijuana, California could see the price of pot increase roughly $ 2 more per gram or $ 7 more per eighth of an ounce after the price hikes set in.

The organic soap and body care products company, which uses hemp and hemp oil in many of its products, announced it will financially support organizations working to legalize marijuana in five states

The Oregon and Alaska measures would legalize recreational pot use and usher in a network of retail pot shops similar to those operating in Washington state and Colorado, which in 2012 voted to become the first U.S. states to allow marijuana use for fun.

The first state to legalize recreational adult use of marijuana is now funding a host of programs with the proceeds.

Marijuana is illegal under federal law, but so far eight states and the District of Columbia have legalized the drug for recreational use, while 28 states in total have legalized medical cannabis.

With the passing of Proposition 64, the entire West Coast of the US has legalized recreational and medicinal marijuana use.

On November 8, another four states voted in favor of outright marijuana legalization: California, Nevada, Maine, and Massachusetts all voted in favor of legalized use, sale, and consumption of recreational marijuana.

Although more than half of US states have legalized marijuana for medical use only now is the nation's first research facility for medical marijuana opening.

In California on November 8, voters chose yes on Proposition 64 — a bill to legalize the recreational use, possession, cultivation, and sale of marijuana.

In Nevada on November 8, voters chose yes on Question 2 — a bill to legalize the recreational use, possession, cultivation, and sale of marijuana.

In Massachusetts on November 8, voters chose yes on Question 4 — a bill to legalize the recreational use, possession, cultivation, and sale of marijuana.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has made no secret of his contempt for marijuana use, and his Department of Justice is on the verge of releasing a report that many in the burgeoning legal cannabis industry fear will propose prosecuting people engaging in marijuana sales — even if they are in states that have legalized the drug locally.

In states that never legalized medical marijuana, the average prevalence of illicit use was 4.54 percent in 1991 and 1992, rising to 6.70 percent in 2012 and 2013.

Researchers found that illegal use of marijuana and rates of cannabis use disorder rose to a greater extent in US states that adopted laws legalizing marijuana for medical purposes than in states that didn't adopt such laws.

Proposition 64 legalized the recreational use of marijuana for adults aged 21 years or older, permitting smoking in a private home or at a business licensed for on - site marijuana consumption.

The announcement that the U.S. Department of Justice would no longer adopt a «hands - off» approach to states that have legalized marijuana use initially sent some in the industry into a tailspin, just days after the $ 7 billion California recreational weed market opened for business.

Though marijuana is growing ever more popular throughout the U.S. as several states have legalized medicinal and recreational use of the drug, the tight restrictions on growing and selling cannabis products has been a barrier for entrepreneurs looking to enter the market.

Eight states now allow recreational use of marijuana, while more than half of states have legalized it for medicinal purposes.

Now, after the passing of Proposition 64 that legalized recreational use of marijuana, the state may seen a «green rush,» where investors try to take advantage of a nascent cannabis industry soon to...

After a solid majority of California voters legalized adult - use cannabis last November, the onus has shifted to California cities and counties to pass rules for how and where retail marijuana stores and other cannabis businesses would be allowed to operate.

Will the run of states legalizing marijuana use make it a trendy focus for investment?

According to national pollster Gallup, 64 % of respondents in its Oct. 2017 survey favored the idea of legalizing marijuana in the United States, which compares to just 25 % who felt the same way in 1995, the year before California became the first state to legalize medical cannabis for compassionate - use patients.

Legalize hemp farming, medicinal marijuana uses and tax the doggie do - do out of recreational usages...

Legalize Hemp Farming and then tax ad regulate recreational marijuana use while finally, «freely» give medicinal cannabis to those in dire needs of cannabis's medicinal qualities while charging the «least» needy a fair rate...

Jesus would show up in a church on a Sunday when a drug addict visits, and Jesus would ask, «What do you think, should the medicinal use of marijuana be legalized or not?»

Jesus would show up on a Sunday when a drug addict visits, and Jesus would ask, «What do you think, should the medicinal use of marijuana be legalized or not?»

If marijuana is legalized, the people who decide to use it, better not blame the government for its legalization that may lead to addiction and for any crime committed while under the influence of the drug.

(Reuters)-- Half of Americans now support legalizing marijuana use, a record level, amid growing support for decriminalization that could build pressure to eventually change U.S. laws on the drug, a Gallup poll showed on Monday.

All the states that have legalized marijuana have said is that they will no longer have a state law that regulates use or possession of marijuana.

Marijuana aka pot, dope, grass, Mary Jane, etc. is now legal in four states and the District of Columbia, and is on the ballot this fall for an additional five states, but the push to legalize, as well as its medicinal use, does not necessarily equate with its safety.

The National Democratic Congress Flagbearer hopeful disclosed to sensational Reggae Presenter Blakk Rasta in an interview monitored by Ghanapoliticsonline.com on the weekday drive time Taxi Driver Show on Zylofon FM that marijuana otherwise known as «wee» or «ganja» has a lot of benefits for human use and legalizing it is in order.