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6 cze 2024 · Support our efforts to end prohibition, fight for fairness, reduce crime, and boost local economies through marijuana policy reform. Medical Marijuana; Legalization; Social Justice
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11 kwi 2024 · On January 1, 2024, California workers who use cannabis off-the-clock gained significant protections against employment discrimination. Two new laws, championed by California lawmakers and signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom, are now in effect.
The Marijuana Policy Project supported initiative campaigns to regulate and tax marijuana like alcohol in Arizona, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada and was part of a coalition of groups that coordinated a ballot initiative campaign in California.
MPP was also part of a coalition of groups that coordinated a successful legalization campaign in California, making a total of eight states that have ended marijuana prohibition and replaced it with a system in which marijuana is taxed and regulated like alcohol.
The Marijuana Policy Project of California, an affiliate of Marijuana Policy Project, raised over $777,000 in support of the measure. California Proposition 64 legalized recreational marijuana for persons 21 years or older and established certain sales and cultivation taxes.
18 sty 2024 · The cannabis legalization movement took major strides forward in 2023, with three more states legalizing adult-use cannabis and one more approving medical cannabis. Now we have our sights set on more promising cannabis policy reform opportunities in the months ahead.
Neighboring states with successful adult-use and medical cannabis programs will put pressure on holdouts to re-evaluate their policies, and the future of cannabis policy in the Midwest is likely to involve continued progress toward legalization. Pacific Coastal (Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington)
