Descheduling cannabis removes the threat of undue federal intrusion in existing state marijuana programs and respects America’s longstanding federalist principles allowing states to serve as “laboratories of Democracy.”
Beginning on July 1, those age 21 or older may legally possess up to 1.5 ounces of cannabis flower and/or 12 grams of cannabis concentrates.
Excess tax burdens imposed on state-legal cannabis businesses are destroying their profitability. These states are legislating change.
Summer ’23 Intern Aselah Greenwood joins NORML to hone her advocacy skills.
“Tens of thousands of Louisianans carry the burden and stigma of a past conviction for behavior that the majority of state residents no longer believe should be a crime. Our sense of justice and our principles of fairness demand that public officials and the courts move swiftly to right the past wrongs of cannabis prohibition and criminalization.”
The new law significantly increases the amount of cannabis patients may home cultivate and doubles the amount of THC available in certain marijuana products.
Highlights include: CA, CO, IL, LA, ME, NV, NY, OH, PA, & VT