Welcome to the latest edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup!
Month: November 2018
Reconciled Farm Bill Includes Provisions Lifting Federal Hemp Ban
House and Senate lawmakers have agreed to a reconciled version of H.R. 2: The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (aka the 2018 Farm Bill), which includes provisions lifting the federal prohibition of industrial hemp.
Utah: Make Your Voice Heard; Make Your Vote Count
Lawmakers are planning to convene a special session beginning on Monday, December 3 to debate replacing Proposition 2: The Utah Medical Cannabis Act.
A #GivingTuesday Message from NORML Executive Director Erik Altieri
This #GivingTuesday can you chip in to help us keep the fight going? We have ten states (plus DC) that have legalized marijuana for adult use and are looking at more potentially joining that list in 2019, but we need the resources to help get those states across the finish line.
Growing Change on Giving Tuesday
This Giving Tuesday, NORML is raising $25,000 to help advance common-sense federal marijuana reform in 2019. It’s time to #LegalizeAmerica!
New Jersey Lawmakers Move Forward Adult Use Marijuana Legislation
Senate and Assembly lawmakers in New Jersey voted on Monday, November 26, in favor of legislation that seeks to regulate the adult use marijuana market.
Weekly Legislative Roundup 11/23/18
Welcome to the Thanksgiving edition of NORML’s Weekly Legislative Roundup!
Joe Biden’s Ideal Drug War
Framing US drug enforcement as a war creates an excuse to upend self-governing customs that protect human rights. Part of prohibition’s survival strategy encourages rights violations when it enlists laws to shield drug war ideologies from critics.
Nothing is perfect, including ideologies. Confronted by imperfections, some ideologues panic. They fanatically defend their own fact-free […]
Massachusetts Marijuana Sales Begin; Rep. Joe Kennedy Supports Legalization
On November 20th, just two days before Thanksgiving, adults over the age of 21 were able to legally purchase marijuana in the state of Massachusetts.
Happy Thanksgiving from the NORML family
We have much to be thankful for this year. Lawmakers in 22 states have passed legislation to advance cannabis reform, Vermont became the first state to end marijuana prohibition legislatively, the Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth became the first US territory to pass a regulated marijuana marketplace, and four states approved voter-initiated ballot measures that legalized adult use (Michigan) and medical marijuana (Oklahoma, Utah, and Missouri).