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In April 2015, the city of Wichita voted to decriminalize cannabis municipally, with a vote of 54-45, reducing first time possession to a criminal infraction with a $50 fine, rather than a misdemeanor with fines up to $2500 and a year of jail time, as under state law. The Kansas Attorney General stated that he would sue the city if the measure ...
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]
These state laws fall into three categories: (1) "zero tolerance" laws, which criminalizes driving with any amount of THC and/or its metabolites in the body; (2) "per se" laws, which criminalize driving with a certain level of THC in the body; (3) laws that focus on whether the driver was actually impaired or affected by THC; and (4 ...
The 2024 Special Committee on Medical Marijuana is charged with studying how Kansas could be impacted by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency’s tentative plan to reclassify marijuana as a less ...
Some bills that didn't pass during the Kansas legislative session involved medical marijuana, Medicaid expansion and cellphone restrictions. ... in state law that marriage be between two people of ...
Kansas will remain among the handful of states that haven't legalized the medical use of marijuana or expanded their Medicaid programs for at least another year. Kansas doesn't allow voters to put ...
At trial, prosecutors were set to easily secure convictions, as jurors could not be informed that the cannabis was for medical use authorized under state law. [4] Drug czar Barry McCaffrey also railed strongly against the medical use of cannabis – deriding it as " Cheech & Chong medicine" – and worked behind closed doors to coordinate a ...
A proposed medical marijuana pilot program got introduced in the Kansas Senate, and is among the most limited and conservative programs in the country Kansas Statehouse considers medical cannabis ...