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In 2019, the US gained a total of 1.7 billion dollars in tax revenue due to the legalization of marijuana. In 2021, that number more than doubled to 3.7 billion dollars. [14] The increase in tax revenue being a driving factor in the legalization of marijuana is similar to the effects of the repeal of prohibition.
Cannabis rights or marijuana rights (sometimes more specifically cannabis consumer rights or stoner rights) are individual civil rights [1] that vary by jurisdiction. [2] The rights of people who consume cannabis include the right to be free from employment discrimination and housing discrimination .
[8] [9] Only two Republicans voted in favor. [5] This was the first time in history a congressional committee approved a bill to end federal marijuana prohibition. [10] [11] The legislation was scheduled for a hearing by the House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Health on January 15, 2020, titled "Cannabis Policies For The New ...
About 70% of American adults said marijuana should be legal in a Gallup poll taken last year, the highest level recorded by the polling firm since it first asked about marijuana policy in 1969. By contrast, only about one-third of respondents supported marijuana legalization 20 years ago. Last year's Gallup poll showed the highest support for ...
Elton John criticized the legalization of marijuana, saying it’s “addictive” and impairs cognitive thinking. “I maintain that it’s addictive. It leads to other drugs,” John, who was ...
Attitudes regarding marijuana regulation changed as some states (Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Maine, and Alaska) passed their own laws legalizing marijuana for recreational use. According to a Gallup Poll published in December 2012, 64% of Americans believe the federal government should not intervene in these states. [116]
Canadians share so many similarities with people in the United States, but there is so much about Canada that Americans get wrong. From speech to health care and other facets of everyday life ...
The legal theory of the case is that although in Gonzales v.Raich, the Supreme Court "reasoned that because Congress intended to 'eradicate' cannabis from interstate commerce, the federal government had a rational and thus lawful purpose in encroaching on states' cannabis regulation", this Commerce Clause-centric logic no longer pertains in the 2020s, as the Federal Government "continues to ...