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According to Jessica Bulman-Pozen and Gillian E. Metzger in 2016, "in declining to enforce the federal Controlled Substances Act with respect to marijuana offenses in Colorado and Washington, the [Obama] Administration has accommodated those states’ decisions to legalize recreational marijuana use." [6]
2015: President Barack Obama declares his support for cannabis decriminalization but opposition to legalization. [ 154 ] [ 155 ] 2022: President Joe Biden , in ordering a review of the scheduling status of cannabis , states: "We classify marijuana at the same level as heroin – and more serious than fentanyl .
Federal penalties for cultivation, possession, or transfer of marijuana were increased by the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 and the Anti-Drug Abuse Acts of 1986 and 1988. [5] Since California voters passed the 1996 California Proposition 215, which legalized medical cannabis, several states have followed suit
The Cole Memorandum was sent to all United States Attorneys and was formally titled "Guidance Regarding Marijuana Enforcement". The Cole Memorandum was a United States Department of Justice memorandum issued August 29, 2013, by United States Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole during the presidency of Barack Obama.
A decision on whether to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug in the U.S. won't come until after the November presidential election, a timeline that raises the chances it could be a ...
During Trump's first presidential campaign, he frequently vowed to end several Obama-era policies, including Obamacare, climate change policies, LGBTQ+ protections and states that legalized marijuana.
The bills propose to legalize and end the prohibition of marijuana at the federal level by amending the United States Code (removing Marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act). The bills eliminate criminal penalties for an individual who imports, exports, manufactures, distributes, or possesses with intent to distribute marijuana.
The Democratic Party made history this year by nominating a presidential candidate who supports marijuana legalization. And when Vice President Kamala Harris picked Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her ...