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Bill number(s) Date introduced Sponsor(s) # of cosponsors Latest status 116th Congress: MORE Act of 2019 H.R. 3884: July 23, 2019 Jerry Nadler (D-NY) 120 Passed in the House S.2227: July 23, 2019 Kamala Harris (D-CA) 8 Died in Committee 117th Congress: MORE Act of 2021 H.R. 3617: May 28, 2021 Jerry Nadler (D-NY) 114 Passed in the House 118th ...
On March 31, 2021, following New York legalization under the 2021 Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced he would soon introduce a federal bill to deschedule cannabis, similar to his 2018 Marijuana Freedom and Opportunity Act. [1]
[4] [3] The law allows adults aged 21 and over to possess up to 1 ounce (28 g) of marijuana, to cultivate up to four plants per household, as well as sharing of marijuana where there is no commercial transaction. [2] Virginia is the first state in the southern United States to legalize cannabis. [5]
In 2021, Virginia became the first Southern state to legalize marijuana, adopting a policy change that allowed adults age 21 and up to possess and cultivate t ... In 2021, Virginia became the ...
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]
The year 2023 began with several state efforts to legalize adult-use or medical cannabis, despite an apparently stalled federal effort to do so. [1] A cannabis industry executive predicted that at least two states would enact adult-use reform in 2023, with the most likely states to legalize being Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Ohio. [2]
Colorado legalized pot in 2012, and in 2021 the state raked in more than $400 million in tax revenue — with that money going to public schools, health care, and substance abuse prevention and ...
While marijuana is illegal federally, the 50 states and D.C. have different laws on medical or recreational use.