Cannabis legalization supporters and opponents—including NORML and Smart Approaches to Marijuana—have filed notices of intent to participate in a hearing on broad federal rescheduling that the Drug Enforcement Administration is set to begin next month.
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Congressman Horsford, Senator Booker, and I led my colleagues in calling on the President to commute the sentences of people serving non-violent marijuana sentences. Too many lives have been derailed by outdated laws that no longer reflect our nation’s views— nearly 9 in 10 Americans support some form of legal marijuana.
Both chambers of Congress have approved this before, only to see it stripped from final legislation with no explanation. None. Not this time! Contact your lawmakers today.
🇺🇸 The House once again approved language allowing VA doctors to recommend medical cannabis.
Veterans advocates have spent years pushing Congress to stop denying former service members access to medical cannabis through the VA healthcare system. Similar language has failed to make it into previous final spending bills, so advocates are watching closely.
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❌ "Governor @GovernorVA@SpanbergerForVA's veto is a profound disappointment to the many Virginia voters who believed her when she said on the campaign trail that she supported establishing a regulated adult-use cannabis market. It is also a slap in the face to the years of serious work undertaken by lawmakers, policy experts, advocates, public health stakeholders, and regulators who spent more than half a decade researching, debating, and carefully crafting this legislation."
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🇺🇸Putting veterans first: my Veterans Equal Access amendment passed the House this week as part of the Military Construction and VA appropriations package, giving doctors the ability to do their job and ensure veterans with injuries, both seen and unseen, know all of their treatment options.
🌿 Compared to a decade ago, far fewer young people are consuming cannabis.
Since 2013, teen cannabis use has fallen sharply.
Regulation works. Prohibition does not.
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🚒💨 Maryland rescue workers will no longer have to choose between their jobs and their medicine.
Democratic @GovWesMoore@iamwesmoore signed legislation protecting firefighters and other rescue workers from employment discrimination for lawful, off-duty medical cannabis use.
@NORML is proud to have helped deliver this victory for patients, workers, and common sense.
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The YEARS of progress to move cannabis out of Schedule I has stalled under Trump, with the DEA acting like the Strait of Hormuz.
Thousands are still in federal prison for non-violent marijuana offenses.
Proud to stand with advocates on 4/20 today pushing pardons, clemency, and real reform.
Happy 4/20! As Co-Chair of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus, I am proud to introduce my Higher Education Marijuana Research Act to eliminate barriers to academic research on cannabis.
It makes no sense for the federal government to impede this research when millions of Americans can legally use marijuana recreationally or for medical purposes.
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🇺🇸 Depuis 1970 @NORML a fait passer le cannabis de la marge culturelle au terrain du droit, du plaidoyer et de l’organisation politique en défendant la notion d’usage responsable pour les adultes :
The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws is conducting a survey ahead of 4/20 to find out what cannabis consumers think about freedoms in the jurisdictions where they live.
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❌ "SB56 was sold as consumer protection. For people who depend on cannabis topicals for chronic pain and skin conditions, it landed like a punishment," says NORML Intern Tobey MacCachran, who shares how Ohio lawmakers' repeal of voter-approved legalization provisions is impacting his access to effective treatments.
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@AMartinelliWA Just like they say they don't think people should go to jail for cannabis and are simply concerned about commercialization, yet actively fight clean decrim legislation at every opportunity.
We were finally making real progress on marijuana reform — moving it out of Schedule I and opening the door to real research.
But that progress has completely stalled under Trump. Deadlines missed, reforms delayed, and no answers given.
That’s unacceptable. I’m demanding answers.
📉 Investigators evaluated trends in 13 states following marijuana legalization and identified "striking" declines in the prevalence of daily opioid use.
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⚖️ Several Justices appeared to be skeptical of the government’s position, opining that the degree to which a substance may or may not induce a consumer toward violence is not a specific criterion of the Controlled Substances Act. Justices also questioned the reliability of the federal government’s assessment of cannabis as a Schedule I drug, especially after the White House recently directed the US Attorney General to reclassify it to Schedule III, and asked if there is any convincing historical evidence connecting cannabis to violence.
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