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The Drug Enforcement Administration initiated a 2024 policy review to potentially reschedule marijuana as a Schedule III drug, amounting to "the agency's biggest policy change in more than 50 years". [4] Some hiring and retention policies in federal employment and the armed forces evolved during 2024.
[72] [73] [74] The General Assembly also passed a law in 2022 banning the sale of THC edible products shaped like animals, humans, vehicles, or fruits. [75] A 2023 report by New Frontier Data estimated that $2.4 billion worth of cannabis would be sold in Virginia, but 99% of that will be sold illegally, due to the lacking recreational sales. [76]
In February 2017, Morgan Griffith, a Virginia Republican, introduced H.R. 714, Legitimate Use of Medicinal Marijuana Act, that would move cannabis to Schedule II. [81] Griffith had introduced a bill under the same name in 2014. [82] In April 2017, Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican, cosponsored House Resolution 2020 to move cannabis to Schedule III.
Virginia lawmakers passed legislation Wednesday that if approved by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin would allow recreational retail sales of marijuana to begin next year. The legislation would ...
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2015: Louisiana legislators pass a limited medical cannabis law. [57] [58] 2015: During the year, five more states pass low-THC, high-CBD medical cannabis laws: Virginia, Georgia, Oklahoma, Texas, and Wyoming. [55] 2016: Pennsylvania legalizes medical cannabis through state legislature. [59] 2016: Ohio legalizes medical cannabis through state ...
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will take a historic step toward easing federal restrictions on cannabis, with plans to announce an interim rule soon reclassifying the drug for the first ...
The year 2023 began with several state efforts to legalize adult-use or medical cannabis, despite an apparently stalled federal effort to do so. [1] A cannabis industry executive predicted that at least two states would enact adult-use reform in 2023, with the most likely states to legalize being Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Ohio. [2]