Of the eighteen speakers at a West Virginia Health and Human Resources Committee hearing on medical marijuana, all were speaking in favor of legalizing cannabis for medicinal purposes....
Possession of small amounts of marijuana will no longer carry criminal penalties in Rhode Island when a law adopted last year officially takes effect on Monday. S...
Maryland’s House of Delegates has approved a medical marijuana bill that would allow patients access through academic medical research facilities. While this would be a more tightly...
Written Testimony In Favor of Senate Bill 297 To Be Heard By The Members of the House Judiciary Committee Thursday, March 28, 2013, at 1:00pm By Allen...
House and Senate lawmakers yesterday passed an amended version of Senate Bill 50, “An Act relating to industrial hemp.” The floor votes took place with only hours...
New York has become the latest state to see medical marijuana legislation introduced this year. On Tuesday, Assemblyman Richard Gottfried filed Assembly Bill 6357 and Senator Diane Savino filed...
A bipartisan group of 35 state lawmakers are listed as co-sponsors of a bill filed Tuesday to regulate marijuana like alcohol in Maine. LD 1229, the “Act...
There is plenty of action in state legislatures, the battle over rescheduling continues, a Maine dispensary gets called out for using pesticides, and much more. Let’s get...
Medical marijuana bills are circulating in Illinois and Florida. In Illinois, HB1, authored by Rep. Lou Lang (D-Skokie), will soon be voted on in the House. According to Rep....
At a town hall meeting in Wichita, Kansas on Saturday, the hot topics were Medicaid expansion and medical marijuana. Several advocates of medical marijuana spoke to the...
Law-enforcement agencies need warrants to seize the mail of U.S. citizens, and the same rule will apply to email under a new bill proposed to the California...
Last fall, Uruguayan President Jose Mujica proposed legalizing marijuana commerce and cultivation (marijuana possession has never been a crime there), but shortly thereafter postponed action on the proposed legislation...
Until recently, things had been all quiet on the marijuana front in Nevada. That changed suddenly last week when Sen. Richard “Tick” Segerblom introduced SB 374, a bill...
Yesterday, the New Hampshire House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed House Bill 573, by a vote of 286-64. The bill is expected to pass the Senate, which approved similar legislation last year....
A bill that could allow Maryland citizens with serious illnesses to obtain medical marijuana legally via state-regulated programs took an important step toward becoming law today when...
Senate Concurrent Resolution 112 is set for a final vote on the Idaho House floor. Already approved by the Senate, if passed it would officially proclaim...
Oklahoma has some of the harshest penalties for marijuana possession in the nation. A second offense for possession of any amount of marijuana is a felony punishable...
For the fourth time in five years, a cannabis decriminalization bill has been approved by New Hampshire’s House of Representatives. The bill would reduce penalties for possession...
