Legal Related Ohio Activists File Measure to Put Marijuana Legislation on This Year’s Ballot by Sophia Vida March 03, 2020 Marijuana reform advocates in the state of Ohio have formally filed measure to put marijuana legalization before voters this year. Under the “Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol” measure, adults 21 and older would be allowed to...
Legal Related Canada Health Department Has Formed a Committee To Study Marijuana by Sophia Vida March 03, 2020 Canada's department of health, Health Canada has made a bold move recently. The health department has formed a committee to study marijuana and is now seeking nominations for the committee. The committee will research how marij...
Legal Related Vermont House Gives Green Light to Marijuana Market Bill by Sophia Vida February 27, 2020 In an overwhelming vote of 90 to 54, lawmakers in Vermont this week approved a legal market bill for marijuana. Following many hours of debate, the approved bill would tax and regulate a legal marijuana market where sales will ...
Legal Related Maine Has No Recreational Marijuana Testing Facility Yet by Sophia Vida February 27, 2020 Maine's Office of Marijuana Policy revealed this week that the state is now just months away from beginning recreational marijuana sales. The state department has received 93 store applications and roughly 80 of them are being ...
Legal Related Grand Rapids Makes Quick Reversal on Decision Over Marijuana Application Hours by Sophia Vida February 27, 2020 Grand Rapids, Michigan has decided not to delay the acceptance of recreational marijuana business applications nor freeze the ongoing medical marijuana application process. It was on Tuesday that the Grand Rapids city commissio...
Legal Related Marijuana Regulators in Massachusetts Want to Cut Wait Times for Licenses by Sophia Vida February 25, 2020 The chairman of the Cannabis Control Commission in Massachusetts, Steven Hoffman, told state lawmakers on Monday that marijuana regulators want to cut the wait time for a license in half in the next budget year. Currently the a...
Legal Related Ohio Could See Marijuana Legislation on 2020 Ballot by Sophia Vida February 25, 2020 The state of Ohio has made medical marijuana legal, but now medical marijuana growers in the state are working to legalize recreational sales too and they want to do it through a statewide ballot measure this November. Accordin...
Legal Related Elizabeth Warren Wants to Legalize Marijuana This Way by Sophia Vida February 25, 2020 Elizabeth Warren, who is hoping to be the Democrat runner up against President Trump for the new presidency, has been a vocal supporter for the marijuana movement. In her new plan revealed on Sunday by her 2020 presidential cam...
Legal Related A New Bill is Unveiled To Legalize Recreational Marijuana in Pennsylvania by Sophia Vida February 21, 2020 A Pittsburgh state maker has unveiled a new bill in Pennsylvania that would legalize recreational marijuana. Democratic state Rep. Jake Wheatley said House Bill 2050 would create "a dynamic permitting structure for growers, pro...
Legal Related Medical Marijuana Bill in Alabama Clears First Hurdle by Sophia Vida February 21, 2020 Alabama's legislature passed a bill this week that would legalize and regulate medical marijuana from seed to sale in the state. The Senate Judiciary Committee had an overwhelming vote of 8-1, with one abstention, in favor of t...