-USA Update- Marijuana policy is nothing if not complicated. A patchwork of laws governs its use, possession and sale. Federally, it’s illegal. But some states have decriminalized the drug, removing criminal penalties for possession of small amounts. Some have allowed its distribution and sale for medical use. And, in Washington or Colorado, you can walk into any appropriately credentialed dispensary and buy it legally. Oregon, Alaska and D.C. could soon join that pair of states in allowing recreational sales, if voters approve ballot proposals this fall. And a number of cities—two in Maine and about a dozen in Michigan—will consider proposals to liberalize pot laws locally, too. As our colleague Marc Fisher wrote in a piece this weekend: “[I]n the hazy world of marijuana law — an alternate reality in which two U.S. states have declared the substance legal even as it remains banned under federal law — nothing is simple.” washingtonpost/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/10/13/where-marijuana-is-legalized-decriminalized-or-on-the-november-ballot/
Posted on: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 08:20:54 +0000
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