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The crowd cheers as Indiana Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jennifer McCormick speaks during a town hall at UA Local 136 in Evansville, Ind., Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2024.
It could appear on the 2024 or 2025 ballot. [64] On May 7, South Dakotans for Better Marijuana Laws delivered 29,000 voter signatures to the South Dakota Secretary of State, enough to get the initiative on the ballot if at least 60% are validated. [65] It was certified for the 2024 ballot on June 3. [66]
Ohio voters' decision to legalize recreational marijuana has once again surfaced the topic in Indiana, and it could be an issue in Hoosiers' election of a new governor in 2024.. Legalization is ...
Indiana's legislative leaders, with whom the power to change the state's marijuana laws lie, are talking about this change at the federal level, even if they didn't assign the topic to an interim ...
Timeline of Gallup polls in US on legalizing marijuana. [1]In the United States, cannabis is legal in 39 of 50 states for medical use and 24 states for recreational use. At the federal level, cannabis is classified as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act, determined to have a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use, prohibiting its use for any purpose. [2]
The year 2023 began with several state efforts to legalize adult-use or medical cannabis, despite an apparently stalled federal effort to do so. [1] A cannabis industry executive predicted that at least two states would enact adult-use reform in 2023, with the most likely states to legalize being Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Ohio. [2]
Tuesday's announcement is one step closer, some advocates hope, toward full legalization of marijuana at the federal level, but there are still plenty of states with differing laws on the books ...
[4] States would maintain their own laws regarding the substance, including whether to legalize it locally. [5] Due to reduced law enforcement activity and prison costs associated with marijuana-related crimes, the bill would reduce federal expenditures by hundreds of millions of dollars, according to the New York Times.