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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.
According to a 2009 annual report by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, the Dutch are among the lowest users of marijuana or cannabis in Europe, despite the Netherlands' policy on soft drugs being one of the most liberal in Europe, allowing for the sale of marijuana at "coffee shops", which the Dutch have allowed to ...
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 ...
When Carter recommended federal decriminalization, marijuana was illegal for all uses in every state. Today it is legal for medical use in 38 states, 24 of which also allow recreational use.
Would Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb support decriminalizing marijuana? Gov. Eric Holcomb has maintained that he opposes legalization because of marijuana's federal designation as a Schedule 1 drug.
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A 2015 study found that medical marijuana legalization increased use and abuse by those under and over the age of 21. [6] A 2017 study found that frequency of marijuana use by students increased significantly after recreational legalization and that increase was especially large for females and for Black and Hispanic students. [7]
A sign for a cannabis shop in Portland, Oregon.Cannabis has been gradually legalized for recreational use in some U.S. states since 2012.. Drug liberalization is a drug policy process of decriminalizing, legalizing, or repealing laws that prohibit the production, possession, sale, or use of prohibited drugs.