Mar 02 2024
Nearly a month after Vice President Kamala Harris said her and President Biden “changed federal marijuana policy”, marijuana reform advocates remain confused about what she meant, and why it hasn’t been addressed. “We changed federal marijuana policy, because nobody should have to go to jail just for smoking weed”, Vice President Harris said in a …
Feb 29 2024
Most Americans now live in a state that has legalized marijuana, and a vast majority have at least one marijuana dispensary in their county, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis. The analysis found that 54% of Americans live in a state where the recreational use of marijuana is legal, just a dozen years after Colorado …
Feb 29 2024
Activists across the United States are working to make their state the next to legalize recreational marijuana. 24 states plus the District of Columbia have legalized recreational marijuana. Although there are activists working to legalize marijuana in all of the other 26 states, some have achieved far more progress towards accomplishing this goal than others. …
Feb 22 2024
Legislation to fully deschedule marijuana was filed in the US House of Representatives in September, the same month as the “Stop Pot Act” to withhold federal funds from legal marijuana states. Nearly half a year later, one of the bills has drastically more support than the other. The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act would …
Feb 22 2024
Among the states that have not yet legalized recreational marijuana, most have active marijuana legalization bills. However, only a few states have bills that are actually advancing through their state’s legislature this session. Currently there are 24 recreational marijuana states (23 that allow licensed sales), all of which passed their legalization laws since 2012. The …
Feb 20 2024
There’s over a dozen marijuana-related bills currently active in the United States Senate and House of Representatives. In December, 2022, President Biden signed the Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research Expansion Act into law, making it the first standalone piece of marijuana legislation to ever be signed by a US president. Since then, lawmakers have filed …
Feb 14 2024
At the start of 2012, no state in the US had legalized recreational marijuana; 12 years later and zero has increased to 24. Since Colorado and Washington legalized marijuana during the November, 2012 election, an average of around two states every year have done the same, with the number now nearing half of the entire …
Feb 12 2024
Nearly 80% of states in the US have legalized medical marijuana. Of the 12 that haven’t, some are closer to doing so than others. Current there are 38 states that have legalized medical marijuana, with nine more that have passed laws allowing the medical use of low-THC / high-CBD products. Of the 12 states with …
Feb 11 2024
Regardless of the outcome of today’s game, it will be the third year in a row where the Super Bowl winning team is from one of the 24 states with legal recreational marijuana. Both the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers are from states where marijuana is legal for all uses. California legalized recreational …
Feb 08 2024
There’s been a lot of news recently surrounding the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) review of marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug. Here’s a timeline of what’s happened so far, and what we can expect going forward. In October, 2022 President Biden issued an executive order that pardoned thousands of federal marijuana offenders, while also initiating …
