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The Philadelphia City Council just voted 13-3 to end the criminalization of an ounce or less of marijuana, however the Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey said Friday, “I am not in favor at all of any form of legalization.” So Ramsey’s police will just ignore the decriminalization.
As MPP previously reported, Senators Rand Paul (R-KY) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) cosponsored an amendment to the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act that would make medical use of marijuana legal.
Delegates at the British Medical Association's annual representative meeting in Harrogate are to debate whether cannabis should be legalized. "Existing drug policy is contradictory and ineffective. The number of drug users has sky rocketed in the last 30 years despite the introduction of tougher and tougher drug laws. Our policy makers aren't prepared to have a sensible, rational, evidence-based debate on drugs."
As lawmakers try to decide if they’ll legalize a form of medical marijuana, a group of men supporting a broadening of medical marijuana use is walking across North Carolina with the aim of talking to lawmakers about a ballot referendum on the issue.
Democrat Connecticut Gov. Malloy recently signed legislation, House Bill 5476, to study the feasibility of establishing a regulated commercial hemp industry.
New York State lawmakers announced today that they have come to agreement to approve a limited pilot program for medical marijuana in the Empire State.
Here's the latest major medical marijuana news around the United States from the past week, as of June 18, 2014:
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has had three-and-a-half years to weigh in on New York’s medical marijuana legislation. Instead, he first opposed medical marijuana outright. Then, this January, he proposed an unworkable distraction.
Most of us were caught off-guard by the rush of states this year that approved the limited use of CBD-only marijuana extracts because these traditionally conservative states had heretofore rejected the medical use of marijuana.
Jamaica will decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana, the government announced today. ..
A high-ranking state senator in New York has expressed that he has no plans to move the medical marijuana bill out of his committee,reports The Poughkeepsie Journal.
The San Jose City Council's 7-3 vote Tuesday evening limits existing and new pot shops to a handful of select industrial areas that make up less than 1 percent of the city.
Here's the latest major medical marijuana news around the United States from the past week, as of June 11, 2014:
Councilman Jim Kenney says it takes about 17,000 hours of police work annually in Philly to process those arrested with less than an ounce of weed and it disproportionately affects minorities.
Seeking to move marijuana businesses away from cash-only operations, Gov. John Hickenlooper signed legislation Friday that tries to establish the world’s first financial system for the newly legal industry in Colorado. It would allow pot businesses to pool money in cooperatives, however, without the blessing of the Fed, it's more of a symbolic action.
Here's the latest major medical marijuana news around the United States from the past week, as of June 4, 2014:
Medical marijuana patient Larry Harvey, 70, has returned to Washington, D.C. this week to persuade the U.S. Senate to vote for an end to the type of Justice Department (DOJ)
Cannabis reform won a historic vote in the House last week, which approved language blocking the federal government from interfering with state medical marijuana laws
