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It could appear on the 2024 or 2025 ballot. [64] On May 7, South Dakotans for Better Marijuana Laws delivered 29,000 voter signatures to the South Dakota Secretary of State, enough to get the initiative on the ballot if at least 60% are validated. [65] It was certified for the 2024 ballot on June 3. [66]
Timeline of Gallup polls in US on legalizing marijuana. [1]In the United States, cannabis is legal in 39 of 50 states for medical use and 24 states for recreational use. At the federal level, cannabis is classified as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act, determined to have a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use, prohibiting its use for any purpose. [2]
In 2000, Hawaiian governor Ben Cayetano signed into law Act 228, allowing medical marijuana cardholders to grow their own cannabis or appoint a caretaker to do so. In signing the law, Hawaii became the 8th state to legalize medical cannabis and the first to do so through an act of state legislature.
Recreational marijuana is legal in 24 states — just under half the country — while 20 have partially legalized it for medicinal purposes. A few states, like Nebraska and North Carolina, still ...
Apr. 3—The latest effort to legalize recreational marijuana for adults appears dead once again after House Finance Chair Kyle Yamashita declined to hold a vote on Senate Bill 3335. The latest ...
In addition to four states that put marijuana on the ballot in 2024, Massachusetts sought to legalize certain types of psychedelics ... Citizens of Florida, where medicinal marijuana is legal, got ...
Nevada also passes a medical cannabis initiative, but it requires second approval in 2000 to become law, as per the state constitution. [32] 1999: Maine legalizes medical cannabis through ballot measure. [31] 2000: Hawaii becomes the first state to legalize medical cannabis through state legislature. [33]
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