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Cannabis in Indiana is illegal for recreational use, with the exception of limited medical usage. Possession of any amount is a Class B misdemeanor, punishable by up to 180 days in prison and a fine of up to $1000.
2017: West Virginia legalizes medical cannabis through state legislature. [62] 2017: Indiana passes a low-THC, high-CBD medical cannabis law. [63] 2017: New Hampshire decriminalizes cannabis through state legislature. [64] 2018: Vermont becomes the first state to legalize recreational cannabis through state legislature.
Some U.S. states have legalized marijuana, but Peter Reuter argues that restricting promotion of marijuana once it is legal is more complex than it may initially appear. [ 80 ] According to the United Nations' World Drug Report, cannabis "was the world's most widely produced, trafficked, and consumed drug in the world in 2010", with between 128 ...
Federal restrictions on marijuana have long been a reason Indiana's top elected officials have declined to rethink their stance on the drug for medical or recreational use.
The Hoosier state has remained firm in its stance regarding marijuana, with Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb refusing to pardon those with state-level possession charges and saying he would take no ...
The Indiana General Assembly is just as inflexible. All the marijuana bills proposed in the 2024 session failed , and there's little chance that changes in 2025.
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 the West, the first state to include cannabis as a poison was California. The Poison Act was passed in 1907 and amended in 1909 and 1911, and in 1913 an amendatory act was made to make possession of "extracts, tinctures, or other narcotic preparations of hemp, or loco-weed, their preparations and compounds" a misdemeanor. [6]