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Cannabis in California has been legal for medical use since 1996, and for recreational use since late 2016. The state of California has been at the forefront of efforts to liberalize cannabis laws in the United States, beginning in 1972 with the nation's first ballot initiative attempting to legalize cannabis (Proposition 19).
Proposition 19, also known as the California Marijuana Initiative (CMI), was a ballot initiative on the November 7, 1972 California statewide ballot. This was the first attempt to legalize marijuana by ballot measure in the history of the United States. [ 1 ]
2005: Denver residents voted to legalize cannabis. [107] 2006: San Francisco made enforcement of cannabis laws the lowest priority. The change was approved through a Board of Supervisors vote. [108] 2009: Breckenridge, Colorado residents voted to legalize cannabis. [109] 2012: Chicago decriminalized cannabis through a city council vote. [110]
Assemblymember Matt Haney says the bill, which needs Senate approval before it heads to Gov. Gavin Newsom, would level the playing field for the highly taxed and regulated legal weed industry.
Read more:Nobody knows how widespread illegal cannabis grows are in California. So we mapped them. The bill was meant to give the legal cannabis industry a chance to compete with the black market ...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed Assembly Bill 1775 into law, giving local jurisdictions the go-ahead to begin permitting “cannabis cafes” to serve non-cannabis-infused food and ...
The Marijuana Control, Regulation, and Education Act, also known as California Assembly Bill 390 (A.B. 390) and later Assembly Bill 2254 (A.B. 2254), is the first bill ever introduced to regulate the sale and use of marijuana in the U.S. state of California. [1]
Many industry experts believe that federal cannabis legalization is inevitable. Everything seems to be pointing in that direction, although, they also agree that it's not happening any time soon.