Articles tagged with "legalization"

What will — and won’t — be allowed in Pennsylvania, the nation’s newest medical marijuana state.

While a lung-full of marijuana can reduce some consumers to a puddle of silliness and sloth — you know who you are — the fact remains: Cannabis can serve a host of creative uses.

Several top state political leaders threw their backing behind a group established to oppose legalization of recreational marijuana. Critics called it “reefer madness.”

Nevada and Rhode Island are making progress, but Vermont’s efforts to legalize have stalled. Ohio legislators made a bold new medical proposal, and Pennsylvania is so close they can almost smell it.

Pennsylvania is set to become the latest state to legalize as the Legislature sent a bill to the governor on Wednesday, after hearing from parents of children suffering from debilitating seizures.

“It’s absolutely, finally over!” said the founder of the Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana, one of the nation’s first state-legal dispensaries, after a court action this week.

Efforts in recent weeks have focused on hammering out the complicated details of how to strongly regulate a new industry and get it up and running as quickly as possible.

Governor Tom Wolf released an official video urging the Legislature to pass Senate Bill 3, which would legalize medical marijuana in Pennsylvania.

Costa Rica gets closer to legalizing medical marijuana, Alaska’s retail program hits a snag, New Hampshire tries once again to decriminalize, and more in the State of the Leaf.

“You have to be way out in front of some of the pitfalls that have occurred in Colorado,” Sheriff Joe DiSalvo says. “Listen to us and head them off at the pass.”