Legalization

On Monday, the Florida Senate Committee on Criminal Justice will meet to discuss several topics, the most important of which is a bill aimed at reducing penalties for the personal possession of small amounts of marijuana.
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All of America was troubled by the video of Chicago airline police assaulting United Airlines passenger David Dao last week. Sadly, incidents like these seem to be more and more common across the country. This is only one of many egregious and ridiculous overreaches by police since President Trump took office in January. The self-proclaimed “law and order candidate” has gone so far as to name some of his executive orders after the “blue lives matter” movement.

While Colorado was poised to become the first state in the nation to legalize Amsterdam-style coffee shops, the state’s legislative forces have decided to pull the plug on this idea for fear that it could invite Trump’s Justice Department to come marching in.

According to the Associated Press, Colorado lawmakers have backed off their plan to put a social use policy on the books that would allow people to consume marijuana in some public places.

The proposal, which was brought to the table with bipartisan support, would have allowed adults to bring their own weed into public establishments and

Colorado’s legislative forces want to ensure that their recreational cannabis industry is safe, just in case President Trump and his U.S. Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, decide to get squirmy in the coming months and lash out against it.

On Wednesday, the Colorado Senate put its seal of approval on a measure that would allow pot businesses to scrub their association with the recreational sector and join the ranks of the medical marijuana industry.

The brink of festival season is upon us, and this is the year we’re trading flower crowns for flower bowls. There isn’t any better way to relax and enjoy live music than with an inspiring sesh of your favorite flowers. But since marijuana is still federally scheduled, most festivals won’t let you prance through the gates waving your ganja high and proud. But don’t worry, prohibition has caused us cannasapeins to get creative with our secretive smoking.

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau looks to keep his word on legalizing marijuana with a plan now set in place.

The Canadian government on Thursday introduced legislation to legalize the recreational use of marijuana throughout the country, reports the New York Times.
The bill, known as “An Act respecting cannabis and to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, the Criminal Code and other Acts,” would set a minimum age limit of 18, although each province would be free to set their own limit above that age.

The Arizona Court of Appeals has ruled that the possession of medical marijuana on state college and university campuses is no longer illegal, thanks to a college student who has spent the last three years fighting in court.

Despite some anecdotal reports that Colorado’s legal marijuana market has contributed to an uprising of homelessness, experts on the subject say they have found no correlation between the two.

OTTAWA — Fulfilling a campaign pledge, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced legislation on Thursday to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in Canada.Many nations have either decriminalized marijuana, allowed it to be prescribed medically or effectively stopped enforcing laws against it. But when Mr.

OTTAWA The Canadian government introduced legislation on Thursday that put the country on track to make recreational marijuana use legal by July 2018, with plans to regulate production but leave the oversight of retail sales up to the provinces.


The legislation put forward by the ruling Liberal party, which made legalizing recreational marijuana part of its successful 2015 election campaign, would set the minimum legal age for use and purchase at 18, though provinces would be able to raise it.

(Reporting by Leah Schnurr and David Ljunggren)

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