Analysis: State-Legal Cannabis Not Correlated with Increased Traffic Fatalities

“There are legitimate concerns around the marijuana legalization debate. … However, based on our research and the research of others, the effect that legal marijuana could have on traffic safety should not be one of those concerns.”
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Texas: Lubbock Advocates Submit Twice as Many Signatures as Needed To Force Marijuana Depenalization Vote

The initiative seeks to end arrests and citations for adults who possess misdemeanor amounts of cannabis within the city’s limits.
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Colorado: Compliance Check Data Confirms That Retailers Aren’t Selling Marijuana to Minors

“Regulation works. Illicit marijuana providers don’t ask for or check for ID, but licensed businesses most certainly do.”
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Ohio: Latest Polling Finds Marijuana Legalization Ballot Measure “Almost Certain” to Pass

“Ohioans have seen similar legalization laws adopted in neighboring states and they know that regulating the cannabis market is preferable to the failed policy of prohibition.”
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FBI: Police Make Over a Quarter Million Marijuana Arrests in 2022

“Even from this incomplete data set, it remains clear that marijuana seizures and prosecutions remain a primary driver of drug war enforcement in the United States.”
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Ohio: Early Voting Begins on Adult Use Marijuana Legalization Initiative

If passed, Ohio will be the 24th state to legalize the adult-use marijuana market, and the 14th do so by a public vote.
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Alaska: Anchorage Assembly Votes to Reform Marijuana Testing Policies for Most Municipal Workers

“Those who consume alcohol legally and responsibly while away from their jobs do not suffer sanctions from their employers unless their work performance is adversely impacted. Those who legally consume cannabis should be held to a similar workplace standards.”
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NORML Op-Ed: The Science Is Clear — Marijuana Is Safer Than Tobacco

Numerous studies assessing the long-term health impacts of cannabis smoke exposure belie the myth that marijuana is associated with the same sort of well established, adverse respiratory hazards as tobacco.
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Survey: Most Truck Drivers and Their Carriers Favor Changes in Federal Marijuana Testing Rules

The survey’s authors acknowledged that existing federal testing regulations are contributing to significant numbers of truck drivers leaving the industry while also dissuading new workers from entering it.
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Ohio: Ballot Initiative Legalizing Marijuana for Adults Favored in Multiple Polls

“Ohioans have seen similar legalization laws adopted in neighboring states and they know that regulating the cannabis market is preferable to the failed policy of prohibition.”
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