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In November 2016, California voters approved the Adult Use of Marijuana Act (Proposition 64) with 57% of the vote, which legalized the recreational use of cannabis. As a result of recreational legalization, local governments (city and county) may not prohibit adults from growing, using, or transporting marijuana for personal use.
The Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) (Proposition 64) was a 2016 voter initiative to legalize cannabis in California. The full name is the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act. [2] The initiative passed with 57% voter approval and became law on November 9, 2016, [3][4] leading to recreational cannabis sales in California by ...
Eight years after Prop. 64’s approval — as 23 other states including Colorado, New York and Michigan have decriminalized personal consumption and more-conservative states like Florida, Utah ...
After passage of Proposition 64 created a legal recreational market in California, toxicologists with the Department of Pesticide Regulation proposed to ban from inhaled weed products 42 chemicals ...
The Berkeley Patients Group (BPG) is the oldest continuously operating cannabis dispensary in the United States, inaugurated in 1999 in Berkeley, California. BPG has been known not only for cannabis dispensation, but also for its involvement in advocacy campaigns for cannabis policy reforms and the rights of patients using marijuana for medical purposes, and for its involvement with the ...
It also violates Proposition 64, the voter-approved law that legalized the recreational use of cannabis, which explicitly states that smoking marijuana is prohibited anywhere where smoking tobacco ...
November 1996: first state to legalize medical marijuana when Proposition 215 was approved by 56% of voters. [31] November 2016: Proposition 64 passed by 57% to 43%, legalizing sale and distribution, effective January 1, 2018. [32] Colorado: Legal to possess up to 2 oz (57 g) [33] Legal to possess up to 2 oz (57 g)
e. In the United States, increased restrictions and labeling of cannabis (legal term marijuana or marihuana) as a poison began in many states from 1906 onward, and outright prohibitions began in the 1920s. By the mid-1930s cannabis was regulated as a drug in every state, including 35 states that adopted the Uniform State Narcotic Drug Act. [1]