On FebruCircuit Judge Christina Klinger ruled that South Dakota’s Constitutional Amendment A was unconstitutional. Repeal Effortsīills to repeal voter initiatives approving adult-use legal marijuana were introduced in 2018 but did not pass in Washington.
The measures in New Hampshire and Rhode Island were enacted and established commissions to study the legalization, regulation and taxation of marijuana. In 2018, study bills were filed in Hawaii, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota and Rhode Island. The resolution begins a study requiring recommendations for implementing legalization by July 1, 2022. In 2020, Virginia adopted SJR 67 - having Virginia begin it's journey to join the other states in legalizing cannabis for recreational use. The newsletter discusses studies on crime rates, traffic accidents, prices, jobs, state budgets, and state workers' comp programs. On March 16, 2021, NPR's Planet Money released a newsletter entitled The Data On Legalizing Weed. Recently, New Jersey (AB 21) legalized certain personal use, while removing marijuana as a schedule I drug. In May 2019, the Illinois General Assembly passed the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, House Bill 1438 and the Governor signed the legislation in June. In 2018, Vermont became the first state to legalize marijuana for adult use through the legislative process (rather than a ballot initiative.) Vermont’s law went into effect July 1, 2018. In 2018, Michigan voters approved “Proposal 1” by a margin of 56 percent to 44 percent to legalize, regulate, and tax marijuana in the state.
8, 2016, voters in four states, California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada, approved adult-use recreational marijuana, while voters in Arizona disapproved. In 2015, Ohio voters defeated a ballot measure that addressed commercial production and sale of recreational marijuana. Alaska, Oregon and District of Columbia followed suit in fall of 2014. HistoryĬolorado and Washington approved adult-use recreational marijuana measures in 2012. The map below summarizes cannabis policy throughout the states as of June 2021. 8, 2021 Circuit Judge Christina Klinger ruled that the measure was unconstitutional. Quickly after the amendment passed, it was challenged in court. In the 2020 elections, South Dakota voters passed Constitutional Amendment A (54%).
The bill, HB 2a, has been signed by the Governor. Additionally, on March 30, 2021, New Mexico's legislature introduced its Cannabis Regulation Act within their first special session. New York legalized cannabis with the governor's signature of AB 1248, which was passed during New York's 2021 session. On April 7, 2021, Virginia's legislature accepted the governor's recommended amendments for a significantly speedier implementation window for HB 2312 which would legalize recreational cannabis use in Virginia and establish a regulated commercial market. Some aspects of the bill do not take effect immediately, but those 21 years old and higher will be able to recreationally use cannabis starting July 1, 2021.
In late June of 2021, Connecticut legalized the recreational use of cannabis with the passage of SB 1201. Most recently, Rhode Island passed the Rhode Island Cannabis Act. Nineteen states, two territories, and the District of Columbia have legalized small amounts of cannabis (marijuana) for adult recreational use.
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