Highlights include LA, ME, NV, NJ, PA, & VT.
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Excess tax burdens imposed on state-legal cannabis businesses are destroying their profitability. These states are legislating change.
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“Interning with NORML provides me with the opportunity to engage in projects that closely align with my passion. I aspire to change the social stigmas surrounding marijuana and marijuana use. I also aspire to promote the therapeutic utility of cannabis.”
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“Tens of thousands of Louisianans carry the burden and stigma of a past conviction for behavior that the majority of state residents no longer believe should be a crime. Our sense of justice and our principles of fairness demand that public officials and the courts move swiftly to right the past wrongs of cannabis prohibition and criminalization.”
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The new law significantly increases the amount of cannabis patients may home cultivate and doubles the amount of THC available in certain marijuana products.
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Highlights include: CA, CO, IL, LA, ME, NV, NY, OH, PA, & VT
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“This measure reinforces the reality that the responsible, adult-use of cannabis is legal in the state of Maine and that those who engage in this lawful behavior should not face discrimination for their actions.”
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“This study found no evidence for increased cannabis use among youth living in ZIP codes with active medical cannabis dispensaries. In fact, 12th graders living in ZIP codes with dispensaries had lower past-year and past-30-day cannabis use.”
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“Our sense of justice and our principles of fairness demand that public officials and the courts move swiftly to right the past wrongs of cannabis prohibition and criminalization.”
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Eighty-three percent of participants said that cannabis is “less harmful to a person’s health compared to alcohol” and 67 percent said that it is a “highly important treatment for older adults.”
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