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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).
The Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) (Proposition 64) was a 2016 voter initiative to legalize cannabis in California. The full name is the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act. [2] The initiative passed with 57% voter approval and became law on November 9, 2016, [3] [4] leading to recreational cannabis sales in California by ...
The new law should help licensed retailers compete with the black market while mitigating the odor that offends Donald Trump and J.D. Vance. 8 Years After Legalizing Pot, California Will Finally ...
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.
[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. [54] [55] The bill was passed by the senate on February 14. [56] Kentucky HB 420 to legalize and regulate cannabis for adult use was introduced by Keturah Herron on January ...
A bill championed by the first Black woman to own a cannabis shop in L.A. could be the last hope for social equity programs that failed entrepreneurs. Column: California's cannabis industry is broken.
The movement to legalize cannabis in the U.S. was sparked by the 1964 arrest of Lowell Eggemeier, a San Francisco man who walked into the city's Hall of Justice and lit up a joint, requesting to be arrested. [7] As it was a felony to use cannabis in California, Eggemeier was sent to prison where he was held for close to a year. [6]
The bill was meant to give the legal cannabis industry a chance to compete with the black market, Haney said, because legal businesses have higher costs to produce and sell their products while ...