Legal Related Florida Judge Blocks Medical Marijuana License Process by Sophia Vida October 04, 2018 A Judge in Tallahassee, Florida, has agreed to block state health officials from moving forward with the application process for medical marijuana licenses. Leon County Circuit Judge Charles Dodson gave a verbal order this past...
Legal Related You Can Bring Marijuana into LAX Now by Sophia Vida October 04, 2018 The Los Angeles International Airport is now allowing passengers to bring marijuana inside the airport. According to LAX’s website, "Los Angeles Airport Police Department will allow passengers to travel through LAX with up to...
Legal Related New California Law is Allowing Some People to ‘Reclaim Their Lives’ by Sophia Vida October 01, 2018 A landmark California marijuana legislation may result in many lives changed. The new law, Assembly Bill 1793, will soon make it easier for people with past marijuana convictions to get their records expunged completely, or the...
Legal Related Governor Jerry Brown Signs a Bill That Will Allow Temporary Marijuana Events in Cities by Sophia Vida September 29, 2018 California's Governor, Jerry Brown, has signed AB 2020, a bill authored by Assemblyman Bill Quirk of Hayward, that will allow cities the authority to approve temporary marijuana events. According to Quirk, the bill grants local...
Legal Related Ontario Will Not Put Cap on Marijuana Shops by Sophia Vida September 26, 2018 Canada is less than a month away from beginning legal sales of recreational marijuana. Ontario's government has revealed this week that it will not place a cap on pot shops when it starts licensing and regulating the provinceâ€...
Legal Related New Hampshire Marijuana Legalization Study is Almost Finished by Sophia Vida September 25, 2018 The commission studying marijuana legalization in New Hampshire has until November 1st to turn in a report where it will be making up to 50 recommendations. According to State Representative Patrick Abrami, chairman of the comm...
Legal Related Seattle Will Vacate Unjust Marijuana Convictions that Targeted People of Color by Sophia Vida September 25, 2018 Every judge on Seattle's municipal court agreed this week to vacate over 500 convictions from 1996 to 210 for misdemeanor marijuana possession. The seven judges agreed that the convictions had dis-proportionally impacted people...
Legal Related Washington D.C. Marijuana Arrests Will Now be Citations Instead of Custody by Sophia Vida September 25, 2018 Qualifying people using marijuana in public will now face citations instead of arrests in the District of Columbia. The city’s mayor and police chief announced this month that those who qualify will receive a citation instead...
Legal Related Utah’s Future Senate Winner Will Have a Marijuana Advocate by Sophia Vida September 25, 2018 Republican Mitt Romney and Democrat Jenny Wilson are up against one another in Utah's U.S. Senate race this November and it looks like the candidates have something in common. Regardless of whether Romney or Wilson win, there w...
Legal Related This US Territory Just Made History in the Marijuana Arena by Sophia Vida September 22, 2018 The governor of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI)—a tiny Pacific territory with a population of just over 50,000, has just signed a new law to legalize marijuana. CNMI is now the first place in the U.S. ...