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The number of arrests for marijuana distribution and marijuana possession with intent to distribute was 1,378 in 2010, and 234 in 2015. [33] In 2016, however, more than 400 people were arrested in D.C. for public consumption of marijuana, and numbers remained high in 2017.
Studies on decriminalization of marijuana in Portugal have indicated it to be a "huge success". [142] Drug use rates in Portugal were found to be dramatically lower than the United States with decriminalization enacted. [142] Teenage use of marijuana in the Netherlands where it is sold legally and openly is lower than in the United States. [143 ...
A canvasser for the DC Cannabis Campaign soliciting signatures for Initiative 71. Initiative 71 was a voter-approved ballot measure in Washington, D.C., that legalized the recreational use of cannabis. The short title of the initiative was "Legalization of Possession of Minimal Amounts of Marijuana for Personal Use Act of 2014". [1]
The Democratic-controlled House on Friday approved a bill to decriminalize and tax marijuana at the federal level, reversing what supporters called a failed policy of criminalization of pot use ...
The House Rules Committee is holding a hearing on the ''Marijuana Opportunity Act" (MORE Act) on March 30th, a bill which would decriminalize marijuana. News of a potential federal legalization...
The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act, also known as the MORE Act, is a proposed piece of U.S. federal legislation that would deschedule cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act and enact various criminal and social justice reforms related to cannabis, including the expungement of prior convictions.
At the start of the 1970s, the premier decriminalization organizations were Legalize Marijuana, better known as LeMar, and Amorphia, the two of which merged in 1971. [5] The next year, Amorphia led the unsuccessful campaign for California's marijuana legalization initiative, Proposition 19. [6] In 1974, Amorphia merged with NORML. [5]
House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) said Wednesday that he would support Washington, D.C., taxing and regulating legalized marijuana. Comer told reporters he ...