Efforts for Expedited Process to Get Medical Marijuana Lauded in Nevada
- LEGALITIES, MEDICAL MARIJUANA, NEWS
- June 22, 2016
The state of California has approved a ballot initiative that will let California voters decide whether or not to legalize marijuana for recreational use. The Los Angeles Times reports that the initiative received 600,000 signatures, well above the 402,000 required to make it on the state ballot. If it passes, California will become the fifth
READ MOREInstead of waiting as long as three months for access to medical marijuana dispensaries, prospective Nevada patients can now be approved on the same day thanks to a new Las Vegas-based Division of Public and Behavioral Health office. For medical marijuana officials, that’s a step in the right direction to establishing a healthy and safe
READ MOREA new survey of teen drug use in Colorado has served to help marijuana legalization advocates in Massachusetts push back against the claims of opponents that legalization will lead to higher rates of teenage pot consumption. The survey released Monday by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment found that 21.2 percent of high
READ MOREPennsylvania was the 24th state to pass legislation approving medical marijuana. Its medical sales of the drug should eclipse $980 million by 2020, nearly four times the medical sales forecast in New York for that year, according to Washington, D.C.-based New Frontier. As many as 5,000 marijuana-related jobs could crop up statewide over the next
READ MOREIn Pennsylvania, the Tri-County Regional Planning Commission is looking at zoning rules for businesses tied to the marijuana Industry after the state Department of Health wrote regulations for medical marijuana The ordinance is a flexible tool that can get the working motion for municipalities that are interested. As Myers-Krug from the Commission said: “It kinda
READ MOREMore than a dozen U.S. states have passed laws allowing some degree of medical use of marijuana, and 17 states have decriminalized it. In Cayman Islands, Premier Alden McLaughlin has instructed government lawyers to draft legislation allowing local doctors to prescribe cannabis oil, which is derived from the marijuana plant, for medical purposes. The premier
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