Americans For Safe Access: Advancing Legal Medical Marijuana

First of all, they need special permission to approve of the pot use.

States where recreational marijuana is legal: Alaska, California, Colorado, Oregon, Massachusetts, Nevada, Washington. With liquor stores or marijuana shops, they have to post a notice on the premises before a permit is granted, and that’s not in the ordinance.

It’s the first USA city to legalize marijuana use at public establishments. Colorado’s experience offers no definitive answer. When marijuana was legalized, it was predictable that there would be several hurdles such as this one that would have to be overcome, and we will likely see other states going through these same problems, now with the legalization of recreational marijuana in California, Nevada, Massachusetts, and ME during this same election cycle. It also creates a process for licensing and regulating adult use businesses, including cultivators, product manufacturers and retailers by 2018.

“Sonoma, Shasta, Santa Cruz, San Jose – they’re all backtracking respective to Proposition 64”, Crowder said.

Where is marijuana legal in the U.S.?

First and foremost, 300 is about bringing your own marijuana anywhere.

A woman holding a marijuana joint makes a face-palm.

Tourists account for almost 17% of recreational marijuana sales in Colorado in 2015.

Some Northern California counties have already issued regulations on cultivating medical marijuana, but San Mateo County’s slower approach is considered, according to County Agricultural Commissioner Fred Crowder. “We do not allow the presence of dispensaries physically within the city”.

The possession, use and growth of marijuana will remain prohibited on Stanford property, including off-campus housing, despite the passage of Proposition 64 in last week’s election, campus officials said in a statement Monday.

Todd Mitchem, a Denver-based marijuana industry consultant and lobbyist, said the pot business should expect an infusion of new interest from investors and would-be marijuana growers and retailers.

Recreational marijuana has been legal in Colorado since 2012. By 2015, that number was down to 47.7 percent.

But that apparently did not translate to a large increase in students who said they regularly used the drug.

Joel Schneider, a former attorney, came to Colorado in 2014 with the intention of opening a marijuana business that didn’t involve growing or selling the plant.

Communications Adviser for Denver, Daniel Rowland said that the city holds two options.

The one noticeable jump was among seventh-graders, with almost 9 percent saying they were current users compared with 4.5 percent before recreational use was legalized.

The newly expanded departments will include regulations and control of the non-medical marijuana industry.

She said the bill’s opponents are concerned about public safety as well as issues of second-hand smoke indoors.

“This is a really vulnerable population”, she said.