The proposed constitutional amendment, which was approved for initial signature gathering last week, would allow adults 21 and older to use and possess cannabis. They could also grow up to nine plants for personal use. The initiative would not provide for retail sales, however.
Congressional lawmakers are pushing President Joe Biden to grant clemency to nearly 20,000 people in the federal prison system—including those with drug convictions.
The Biden administration is already asking a fraction of people with drug convictions who were placed on home confinement amid the coronavirus pandemic to apply for the relief. But nearly 30 members of Congress signed a letter to the president on Friday urging him to take additional steps for a broader pool of people.
A top Rhode Island senator says lawmakers are “very close” to reaching a deal on a marijuana legalization bill that could be taken up during a special session this fall.
Senate President Dominick Ruggerio (D) was asked for a status update on negotiations that have been taking place on the reform proposal since lawmakers adjourned for the session. He told WPRI-TV that while there are still outstanding issues to be resolved, he believes legalization will be taken up before the end of the year.
State Senator Jeremy Cooney partnered with local legal service providers such as Just Cause, LawNY, Legal Aid Society and Monroe County Public Defenders for a Marijuana Record Expungement Clinic at Parcel 5 on Saturday.
He says when New York legalized marijuana back in March it also sought to remove some previous marijuana convictions.
The Marijuana Regulatory Agency (MRA) is excited to announce updates regarding the
plant count inventory of medical and adult-use cultivators that hold stacked class C
licenses. These updates are effective today, September 16, 2021.
Medical growers are now permitted to hold their plant inventory within any of their colocated stacked licenses as long as the total plant count does not exceed the limits
dictated by the total number of stacked/co-located class C licenses.
More than 90 percent of Maine towns and cities still don’t allow recreational marijuana stores, even as sales in the industry have steadily grown since they started nearly a year ago.
While Brewer and Orono are both on track to allow recreational cannabis stores sometime soon, they’ll join only three other Penobscot County communities that allow such shops — Bangor, Medway and tiny Stacyville with just 380 residents. Etna allows growing operations but not retail stores.
Activists in Italy say they’ve gathered enough signatures to qualify a ballot measure that would decriminalize personal cultivation and use of not only marijuana but also psilocybin mushrooms and certain other psychoactive plants for personal use.
The campaign behind the proposal announced over the weekend that it has collected the necessary 500,000 signatures to begin qualifying the measure in just seven days, thanks in part to a new law that allows petitions to be signed digitally rather than only in person. If the referendum clears its remaining procedural hurdles, the public is expected to vote on the nationwide reform in spring 2022.
TORY MP Crispin Blunt has blamed the Home Office for blocking a change to how an illegal hallucinogenic drug is tested as a new antidepressant.
In an op-ed seen by Express.co.uk, Crispin Blunt MP describes how he urged Prime Minister Boris Johnson to change what is known as the “schedule” of the drug psilocybin. This change would mean it would be easier to run trials on its use in mental health treatments. The Prime Minister had already approved the rescheduling of psilocybin for exploring its potential as a treatment for depression, which he informed Mr Blunt in a meeting in May.
Despite this, the Home Office “fails to act, perpetuating what can be considered the worst research blackout in scientific history,” according to the Conservative Drug Policy Reform Group (CDPRG), of which Mr Blunt is chairman.
SWITZERLAND’S largest city Zurich has unveiled details of its adult-use recreational trial which is set to begin in Autumn next year.
Entitled ‘Züri Can – Cannabis with Responsibility’ the three-and-a-half-year study forms part of the country-wide, adult-use cannabis trial which also includes the cities of Basel, Bern, Lucerne and Geneva.
Switzerland’s adult-use cannabis pilot is designed to help shape any future cannabis legislation at the federal level.
Two leading Namibian cannabis activists are challenging the constitutionality of that country’s drug laws.
Their lawyer Kadhila Amoomo says they are seeking to have cannabis legalized and for cannabis prisoners to be freed.
