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South Carolina Senate Bill 0423, the South Carolina Compassionate Care Act legalizing medical cannabis, was reintroduced on January 19 by Tom Davis (R). [ 52 ] [ 53 ] A special order on the bill received two thirds majority vote of the state senate on February 7, bypassing further committees and debate before a full floor vote.
Senate Bill 375, creating a legal adult-use market under the Hawaiʻi Cannabis Authority, was approved by its first committee on February 16. [45] Senate Bill 669, legalization of possession for adult use, was introduced in February. [46] South Carolina H 3561 to decriminalize cannabis was introduced on January 10. [47]
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]
As a region, the South has been slow to embrace marijuana reform. But states are beginning to legalize medical marijuana among other efforts. How marijuana laws have progressed across the South so ...
1977: Mississippi, New York, and North Carolina decriminalize cannabis. [21] South Dakota also decriminalizes cannabis, but the law is repealed almost immediately afterwards. [23] 1978: Nebraska decriminalizes cannabis. [21] No other state would decriminalize until 2001.
A few states, like Nebraska and North Carolina, still ban pot, but have decriminalized it. And then there’s Massachusetts — which voted for legal marijuana in 2016 and is now looking to take ...
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, The Associated Press has learned, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that ...
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 ...