The House Just Passed a Marijuana Legalization Bill. What Does That Mean for Legal Weed? – CNET
Medical marijuana is legal in 37 states but still prohibited by federal statute. Olena Ruban/Getty Images The House of Representatives on Wednesday passed legislation that would legalize marijuana on the federal level. The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act, which cleared the lower chamber by a vote of 220-204, removes cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act and requires courts to expunge convictions of nonviolent marijuana offenders. Its chances are far slimmer in the Senate, though, where it would need the support of all 50 Democrats and at least 10 Republicans to pass. Three-quarters of US states have legalized marijuana…
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New Jersey, Curaleaf is your home for 420
New Jersey, Curaleaf is your home for 420 | Leafly Link copied to your clipboard Leafly Leafly ® Loading… Where are you from? noyes Remember me for 30 days. I confirm that this is not a shared device. Darn! You’re not old enough to use Leafly. Redirecting you to By accessing this site, you accept the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. See the best products available at Curaleaf to celebrate the season. Curaleaf is on a mission to make sure everyone who walks into one of their dispensary locations feels at home. No matter your confidence level with cannabis—whether…
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Connecticut Moving Forward With Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy – Health News Hub
A Connecticut legislative committee’s recent action to provide $3 million to explore psychedelic-assisted therapy using doctor-supervised MDMA or psilocybin is a great step forward in the field, according to two Institute of Living physicians. Both Dr. Godfrey Pearlson, founding director of the Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center at Hartford HealthCare’s Institute of Living and an expert in the fields of marijuana and of psychosis, and Dr. Mirjana Domakonda, Director of the Clinical Trials Unit at the Institute of Living, greeted the action by the legislature’s Public Health Committee. “This area is really promising, but it’s still really only partly understood,” said…
Read More »House begins cannabis debate with Pelosi’s support (Newsletter: April 1, 2022) – Marijuana Moment
Legalization bill amendments; MI psychedelics ballot petitions; MD marijuana bill changes; NY voters oppose cannabis conviction licensing priority Subscribe to receive Marijuana Moment’s newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning. It’s the best way to make sure you know which cannabis stories are shaping the day. Your support makes Marijuana Moment possible… Free to read (but not free to produce)! We’re proud of our newsletter and the reporting we publish at Marijuana Moment, and we’re happy to provide it for free. But it takes a lot of work and resources to make this happen. Matt Taverna of Baked Audiences by Statara:…
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Nathan Tinker: Repeal Connecticut’s medical marijuana certificate fees – Hartford Courant
Each year, medical marijuana patients must pay a $100 fee to the state to obtain a medical marijuana certificate, and $25 per year for certificates for their caregivers. These fees — which amount to about $5.3 million in total each year — effectively, and unfairly, tax medical marijuana patients for access to their medication. No other medical treatment or therapy requires such fees or taxes and, unlike prescription drugs, medical marijuana is a cash-only market. It is not covered by insurance of any sort, so patients must bear the full cost out-of-pocket.
Read More »Opinion | On Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, How Low Will Senate Republicans Go? – The New York Times
The reasons Republicans gave for opposing Solicitor General Kagan were standard fare. They portrayed her as a closet political activist who, in the words of Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, had failed to provide assurance that she would “change her political ways or check her political instincts or goals at the courthouse door.” One of her home-state senators, Scott Brown, Republican of Massachusetts, who had introduced her at the committee hearing and was widely expected to vote for her, voted no at the last minute, having apparently discovered that she lacked judicial experience. While the opposition was tedious and vapid,…
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Congress makes move to legalize marijuana use on federal level – Spectrum News 1
Even in the 18 U.S. states where recreational marijuana use is legal, it is still a federal crime to use it. Now, lawmakers in Congress are trying to establish some continuity between state and federal laws on cannabis use. Recreational use of marijuana is currently legal in Colorado, Washington, Alaska, Oregon, the District of Columbia, California, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, Michigan, Vermont, Illinois, Arizona, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Virginia, New Mexico and Connecticut. Using cannabis for medical purposes is legal 37 states, including Hawaii and Missouri. “Cannabis should be legalized in this country. States are individually moving in that direction….
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