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North Carolina: Governor’s Task Force Recommends Liberalizing State’s Marijuana Penalties

  • by NORML
  • Posted on November 18, 2020November 18, 2020

“it is time for North Carolina to start having real conversations about a safe, measured, public health approach to potentially legalizing marijuana.”

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Marijuana Justice Scales
  • Decriminalization

Virginia: Legislation Bars Police from Using Marijuana Odor as a Pretext for a Search

  • by Paul Armentano, NORML Deputy Director
  • Posted on October 5, 2020October 5, 2020

The bills’ language states, “no law-enforcement officer may lawfully search or seize any person, place, or thing solely on the basis of the odor of marijuana.”

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Cannabis Penalties
  • Decriminalization

Missouri: Kansas City Council Eliminates Local Penalties for Marijuana Possession Offenses

  • by Carly Wolf, NORML State Policies Coordinator
  • Posted on July 10, 2020July 10, 2020

City council members in Kansas City, Missouri approved a municipal ordinance repealing all local penalties specific to activities involving the personal possession of marijuana.

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Joe Biden and Marijuana
  • ACTIVISM

Biden’s Marijuana Plan Is out of Step with Public Opinion, Would Do Little to Mitigate the Failed Policy of Federal Prohibition

  • by NORML
  • Posted on July 9, 2020July 24, 2020

NORML is skeptical that this proposed recommendation will bring about the sort of tangible marijuana policy changes that voters have consistently demanded — in national polls and at the ballot box.

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Marijuana Decriminalization
  • 2020

Ohio: Senate Overwhelmingly Advances Measure to Expand Decriminalization Policies

  • by Carly Wolf, NORML State Policies Coordinator
  • Posted on July 1, 2020July 1, 2020

Members of the Ohio senate advanced a measure expanding the state’s long-standing decriminalization policies.

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Virginia Marijuana Laws
  • 2020

Virginia: Marijuana Decriminalization Law Takes Effect Wednesday, July 1

  • by Jenn Michelle Pedini, NORML Development Director
  • Posted on June 29, 2020July 30, 2020

Legislation passed this spring decriminalizes possession of up to one ounce of marijuana and seals the records of past convictions from public view.

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Cannabis Penalties
  • Decriminalization

New Jersey: Assembly Lawmakers Approve Marijuana Decriminalization Legislation

  • by NORML
  • Posted on June 18, 2020June 30, 2020

Members of the New Jersey state Assembly approved legislation to decriminalize the possession and distribution of up to two ounces of marijuana by adults.

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The NORML Foundation
  • ACTIVISM

NORML Letter to NIDA: Prohibition Must Be Recognized as More Damaging than Marijuana Itself

  • by NORML
  • Posted on June 8, 2020July 8, 2020

NORML leadership today sent an open letter to Nora D. Volkow, M.D., Director of the US National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), asking her to recognize the detrimental impact that racially-discriminatory marijuana law enforcement has had on the public health of communities of color.

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