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[203] [204] [205] First state legislature to legalize recreational marijuana. [206] Virginia: Legal to possess up to 1 oz (28 g) in public; no limit applies at home. [207] Legislature has yet to authorize retail sales. Legal to possess up to 4 oz (113 g) per 30-day period; unlike recreational use, commercial sales of medical marijuana is legal.
Marijuana's status and classification under federal law hinders oversight and scientific research. States have implemented inconsistent standards and regulations, with only two states capping THC levels in most recreational marijuana products and just ten requiring warnings about the potential for habit formation.
1923: Iowa, Oregon, Washington, and Vermont ban marijuana. [14] 1927: New York, [14] Idaho, Kansas, Montana, and Nebraska ban marijuana. [15] 1931: Illinois bans marijuana. [16] 1931: Texas declares cannabis a narcotic, allowing up to life sentences for possession. [17] 1933: North Dakota and Oklahoma ban marijuana. [15] By this year, 29 states ...
The proposed federal change may have little affect in 24 states that already legalized recreational marijuana for adults, or in an additional 14 states that allow medical marijuana.
Nearly six in ten Americans say that marijuana should be legal for medical and recreational purposes, according to a Pew Research poll last month. Cannabis is legal in 24 states for recreational use.
The Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act is a series of federal marijuana decriminalization bills that have been introduced multiple times in the United States Congress. The bills propose to legalize and end the prohibition of marijuana at the federal level by amending the United States Code (removing Marijuana from the Controlled ...
It remains illegal under federal law to bring marijuana in from out of state. RETAIL WEED The Red Lake Nation plans to sell recreational marijuana at its existing medical cannabis dispensary ...
In 2018, Wisconsin voters approved non-binding referendums to legalize medical or recreational marijuana. [145] In 2021, Governor Tony Evers included legal marijuana in his budget proposal. It was removed by Republican-controlled Legislature. [146] While possession remains illegal under state law, law enforcement has been lax in recent years.