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Pennsylvania State Capitol lit green to celebrate passage of medical cannabis legislation by the House of Representatives (March 16, 2016) Governor Tom Wolf signs Senate Bill 3 to legalize medical cannabis in Pennsylvania (April 17, 2016) Cannabis in Pennsylvania is illegal for recreational use, but possession of small amounts is decriminalized ...
[30] [31] The bill passed by 239-136 house vote on April 11, 2024. [32] It was passed by the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 8, with 36 pages of amendments, [33] then passed by the senate on May 16. [34] An amended bill was returned from bicameral conference committee on June 5. [35] [36] On June 13, the bill passed 14-10 in the New Hampshire ...
A bill to decriminalize marijuana passed a chamber of Congress for the first time ever Friday, as Democrats and a handful of Republicans embraced the growing popularity of legal weed and sought to ...
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to reflect that Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) said marijuana was legal in over half the states. A bipartisan coalition of senators behind a cannabis banking ...
The first medical marijuana dispensaries in Pennsylvania came online in 2018, after then-Gov. Tom Wolf had signed the Medical Marijuana Act. However, under federal law it is still considered an ...
The state senate passed the bill on February 22. [34] The house passed an amended version of the senate bill on March 29. [35] Kentucky Senate Bill 47 to create a medical cannabis program was passed by the state legislature on March 30, and sent to the governor to be signed into law. [36]
August 1, 2013: Gov. Pat Quinn signed bill legalizing medical marijuana effective January 1, 2014. [ 72 ] May 31, 2019: the General Assembly passed the Illinois Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act to legalize recreational marijuana use beginning January 1, 2020, allowing adults age 21 and over to possess up to 30 g (1.1 oz). [ 73 ]
The bill also fully removed or "descheduled" low-THC cannabis products from the Controlled Substances Act, where they had been listed as Schedule I drugs since the CSA's inception in 1970. [4] [12] 2022: The Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research Expansion Act is signed into law to allow cannabis to be more easily researched for medical ...