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If marijuana was decriminalized, these numbers were further be reduced again to below 700,000 inmates and save the taxpayers billions of dollars per year. [ 140 ] The United States spends an estimated $68 billion per year on prisoners with a third of that number have been incarcerated for non-violent drug crimes including a sixth of those ...
While marijuana has been decriminalized throughout many states in the US, it remains a Schedule I drug as of October 2024. However, on January 12, 2024, the FDA announced its recommendation that marijuana be moved to a Schedule III drug, which is a much less strictly-regulated category and would acknowledge its potential for medical use. [67]
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.
In 1973 Oregon became the first state to decriminalize cannabis, reducing the penalty for up to one ounce to a $100 fine. States that decriminalized in the following years were: Alaska (1975), Maine (1975), Colorado (1975), California (1975), Ohio (1975), Minnesota (1976), Mississippi (1977), New York (1977), North Carolina (1977), and Nebraska ...
Lt. Gov. Republican Suzanne Crouch: Crouch stood firmly opposed to decriminalizing marijuana, saying in a previous article that her family’s history of battling addiction and law enforcement’s ...
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.
Decriminalizing marijuana in specific municipalities would be a bit unfair to the rest of the state. A person could be prosecuted for low-level possession in Person County while their friend in ...
Erin J. Farley; Stan Orchowsky (July 2019), Measuring the Criminal Justice System Impacts of Marijuana Legalization and Decriminalization Using State Data, United States Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs, NCJ Number 253137, Analyses of the available data suggests that: 1. legalizing the recreational use of marijuana resulted in ...