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On September 3, 2020, Wolf and Fetterman held a press conference to reiterate their call for the legislature to take up a cannabis legalization bill. [25] [26] Wolf stated: "Now more than ever, especially right in the middle of a pandemic, we have a desperate need for the economic boost that the legalization of cannabis could provide."
The bill contained provisions to expedite approval for cannabis research and the production of cannabis for research purposes, require the Department of Health and Human Services to investigate the medical utility of cannabis and barriers that exist to conducting research, require the Attorney General to conduct an annual review to ensure that ...
1977: Gallup reported 28% support for the legalization of cannabis, a number that would not be surpassed until 2000. [157] 2011: Gallup reported 50% support for legalizing cannabis. [159] 2013: Pew Research reported 52% [160] and Gallup 58% [161] in support of legalizing cannabis. In both polls, a majority of respondents supported legalization ...
During the counterculture of the 1960s, attitudes towards marijuana and drug abuse policy changed as marijuana use among "white middle-class college students" became widespread. [3] In Leary v. United States (1969), the U.S. Supreme Court held the Marihuana Tax Act to be unconstitutional since it violated the Fifth Amendment.
Marijuana grows at an indoor cannabis farm in Gardena, Calif. (Richard Vogel /) The bill passed with a simple majority, 228 to 164, with just 6 Democrats opposing it, and 5 votes approving on the ...
[29] As cannabis prohibition continued into the 21st Century, the U.S. Marijuana Party was formed in 2002 as a single-issue party to end the war on drugs and to legalize cannabis. [30] States have also begun to engage in the process of nullification to override federal laws pertaining to cannabis.
But with more and more states legalizing cannabis for the over-21 set, experts project that the cannabis industry will become a $70 billion market by 2028. ... in 2020 alone, Americans turned to ...
Kamala Harris, the first major-party presidential candidate to support repeal of the federal ban on marijuana, is presenting that step as part of her "agenda to give Black men the tools to build ...