Tagged With: marijuana
Oklahoma: Governor Signs Sentencing Reform Measure For Subsequent Marijuana Violations
Governor Mary Fallin has signed legislation into law decreasing criminal penalties for certain marijuana violations. House Bill 2479 reduces sentencing guidelines involving a second marijuana related offense from a maximum penalty of up to ten years in prison to no more than five. It also reduces the existing mandatory minimum penalty from two years in prison to … Continue reading
Oregon: Governor Signs Marijuana Banking Reform Measure
Governor Kate Brown has signed legislation into law that seeks to encourage financial institutions to engage in financial relationships with state-compliant marijuana businesses. The emergency legislation, House Bill 4094, “exempts financial institutions that provide financial services to marijuana related businesses, researchers and laboratories from any criminal law of this state” if it can be substantiated … Continue reading
CDC: Young People Say Marijuana Is Becoming Less Available
Prohibitionists often claim that legalizing and regulating marijuana will increase youth access to the plant. But newly released federal data says just the opposite. Fewer young people are reporting that marijuana is ‘easy’ to obtain, according to an analysis released this week by the US Centers for Disease Control. Investigators from the Substance Abuse and … Continue reading
Nebraska: Medical Marijuana Legislation Defeated
Legislation has been defeated, LD 643, to permit qualified patients legal access to medical cannabis. Senators fell three votes short of ending a filibuster and advancing the bill. The Cannabis Compassion and Care Act, as initially introduced, sought to permit patients the ability to grow and possess cannabis, as well as establish system of state-licensed dispensing. Twenty-three … Continue reading
Maryland: Marijuana Legalization Legislation Tabled
Maryland lawmakers have failed to act on HB 1580, the Marijuana Control Act of 2016, before the state’s legislative session came to a close for the year. The legislation would have regulated the commercial cultivation and retail sale of marijuana to adults over the age of 21. Adults would have been allowed to purchase and possess … Continue reading
Appeals Court: State-Sanctioned Marijuana Users Not Afforded Second Amendment Rights
Justices for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today ruled in favor of a 1968 federal law prohibiting the sale of firearms to any “unlawful user” of a federally controlled substance. Justices determined that state-registered medical marijuana patients are forbidden from purchasing firearms because cannabis remains classified as a Schedule I substance under federal law. … Continue reading
Alabama: Lawmakers Fail To Act On Marijuana Decriminalization Measure
This legislative session, members of the House Judiciary Committee failed to consider House Bill 257, legislation to amend state law so that first time offenders of one ounce or less of marijuana face a civil fine, no arrest and no criminal record. Current law defines the personal possession of marijuana as a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by … Continue reading