Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has signed legislation, the Cannabis Employment Protections Amendment Act of 2022, protecting those who use cannabis from facing discrimination in the workplace. Prior to the law’s enactment, it must undergo a Congressional review — as is the case with all legislation passed by the DC City Council. If Congress takes no […]
Campaign organizers behind the effort to place an adult-use legalization ballot measure before North Dakota voters this November announced today that they had turned in 25,762 signatures to Secretary of State’s office. That total is roughly 10,000 signatures above the number of signatures necessary (15,582) to qualify it for the 2022 ballot. The proposed measure […]
Activists behind proposed citizens’ initiatives to reform marijuana laws in Arkansas and in Nebraska are now in the process of awaiting verification from state regulators. In Arkansas, the group Responsible Growth Arkansas submitted just over 190,000 signatures to the secretary of state’s office to place the Arkansas Adult Use Cannabis Amendment on the November ballot. […]
Products purchased at medical cannabis dispensaries are no longer subject to the state sales tax. For nearly a decade, New Jersey has been among the few states that has imposed sales taxes upon medical cannabis products. (Sales taxes do not apply to other physician-authorized medicines.) The imposition of the tax has been among the reasons […]
Representatives with the group Oklahomans for Sensible Marijuana Laws have turned in over 164,000 signatures to the Secretary of State’s Office in an effort to place a binding, statewide marijuana legalization initiative (State Question 820) on the November ballot. That total is well above the the number of signatures necessary (94,911) to qualify for the […]
At NORML we stand for freedom, not just today, but every day. Despite all our progress, hundreds of thousands of Americans are still put in handcuffs for marijuana every year. But, together we can – and we must – unite to bring cannabis justice to each and every state in the nation. Before you head to […]
The House Committee on Appropriations voted today to approve an amendment that would prevent the Department of Justice from interfering with legal adult-use marijuana programs as part of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies appropriations legislation for Fiscal Year 2023. The bipartisan amendment, introduced by Reps. Barbara Lee (D-CA) and David Joyce (R-OH), with […]
Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards has signed multiple marijuana reform measures into law. Among them, House Bill 629 bars police from conducting a warrantless search of person’s place of residence based solely upon the odor of cannabis. Several other states that have either legalized or decriminalized the use of marijuana by adults have enacted similar […]
Despite being previously approved by the US House of Representatives, provisions of the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act — which allows banks and other financial institutions to more easily provide services to state-licensed marijuana-related businesses — will not be included in the final version of the United States Innovation and Competition Act (a/k/a […]
Drug interdiction efforts along the US border often involve the seizure of small quantities of marijuana and no other substances, according to a pair of recently issued reports. The first report, published by the Government Accounting Office (GAO), analyzed Border Patrol data of 17,960 separate checkpoint seizure events from 2016 to 2020. Authors reported that “most drug seizure events […]
