A blog chronicling the evolution and implementation of marijuana laws in the United States
Welcome to our end of the year wrap-up post for The Week in Weed; it’s hard to believe another year has come and (almost) gone, but the calendar doesn’t lie. In what we are calling an homage to Dave Barry and his always hilarious Year in Review, we’ll organize these stories by month.
Without further ado, here’s a look at the stories that grabbed our attention in 2018. Continue Reading The Week, No Make that the Year, in Weed: 2018
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Following up on last week’s look at an expungement proposal in California, this week we note that Delaware has enacted such a statute.
Expungement is mandatory but not automatic; eligible individuals still need to apply and pay a fee.
When we wrote about North Dakota’s effort to legalize recreational cannabis, we thought that was pretty surprising. We had no idea that Mississippi was looking to put medical marijuana on the 2020 ballot.
A group in Mississippi, one of the country’s most conservative states, is aiming to put what looks to be a business-friendly medical marijuana initiative on the ballot in 2020.
Not all the action is on the state level; new legislation on the federal level would allow veterans access to medical marijuana.
Veterans Affairs doctors are currently prohibited from prescribing the drug by federal law.
Can employers deny employment to people who use cannabis under a medical prescription authorized by state law? In more and more states, the answer is now “No.”
Changes in cannabis laws are creating a new haze for employers. What follows is a quick summary citing some (not all) states that now require employers to think twice before denying employment to individuals because they tested positive for the use of marijuana that they are ingesting for state-authorized medical reasons. Continue Reading Budding Development: States Requiring Employers to Tolerate Medical Cannabis Use
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A state task force is continuing to examine issues surrounding legalized recreational use of marijuana.
Maryland regulators have given eight more medical marijuana companies the green light to begin operations, a positive sign for a program that’s been fraught with problems.
Voters in some parts of Alaska rejected efforts to ban commercial marijuana cultivation and retail sales, three years after the nation’s largest state passed a voter initiative legalizing recreational use.
And finally, a peek into the early years of some of our Supreme Court Justices:
When the justices took the bench this morning to hear oral argument in District of Columbia v. Wesby, there were two young children, dressed in their Sunday best, seated in the front row of the public section.
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Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana.
Recreational marijuana becomes legal to buy Saturday in Nevada, but that doesn’t mean anything goes in the place where most people think anything goes.
The nation’s first licensed marijuana clubs likely will roll out in Denver in a few months after regulators finalized rules governing the pilot program.
It’s meant to complement the possible passage of House Bill 110. The 23-person task force will hold its first meeting by Sept. 7.
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