In 1996, California voters passed Proposition 215, making the Golden State the first in the union to allow for the medical use of marijuana. Since then, 22 more states, and the District of Columbia have enacted similar laws. If the passed bill in New York is not vetoed by the governor, a total of 23 states and the District of Columbia will allow for comprehensive public medical marijuana and cannabis programs. Recently approved efforts in a handful of states only allow "low THC, high cannabidiol (CBD)" products to be used medically in limited situations or as a legal defense. Those programs are not counted as comprehensive medical marijuana programs but are listed as passed in Table 2. NCSL uses criteria similar to other organizations to determine if a program is "comprehensive": Protection from criminal penalties for using marijuana for a medical purpose.\t Access to marijuana through home cultivation, dispensaries or some other system that is likely to be implemented.\t It must allow a variety of strains; and\t It must allow either smoking or vaporization of some kind of marijuana products, plant material or extract.
to get cannabis beyond prohibition I've heard that once over half of the states reach medical status it becomes mandatory on all states as the constitution works with majority favor, unless they have swooped in and changed our constitutional laws again.
It does not work that way whatsoever. There is nothing in the Constitution like you describe. Medical marijuana laws in the U.S. have very little to do with the U.S. Constitution.
Even when the GOP backed House agrees to keep the DEA out of local and state laws regarding marijuana, the DEA goes after doctors and clinics anyway. The corruption and scandal involved with the DEA and the federal government in general is mind boggling. The constitution is slowly being corroded from the inside out, but that's another story.
Agree. The House vote on the CJS does not prevent the DEA from doing anything, of course, since it is not law, but your point is well taken. Now the House is trying to pass legislation that will defeat the decriminalization measure passed by the DC City Council: House committee passes ‘rider' to halt marijuana decriminalization in D.C. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/25/house-committee-passes-rider-halt-marijuana-decrim/
We are going to need MOST of the states to sign on to medical weed before there is a major change in the law. Lets see here, CA started it in 1996, well since it often takes 50 years or more before its mainstream ..look at the civil rights bill that was past in 1964, there is still racism going on in a few places but surely not like it was in 1964. Its going to be 75--100 years before all the states have medical weed but then again I would laughed in your face if U told me ten years ago that weed will be legal in two states come 2014
people are not lead by ludicrousness as much anymore. the older generation yeah but younger folk know what is what and do not so much rely on the resultant info acquired through dumb actions of the ones who came before to get to their conclusions.