MLegal

By doodlebop
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    Jamestown and Early America

    The production of Hemp greatly leaned upon in the founding and initial development of America
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    Medical Marijuana

    The West has adopted the use of marijuana for medical purposes

  • Marijuana enters the US Pharmacopeia

  • Massachusetts becomes the first state to outlaw Marijuana

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    10 more states prohibit marijuana

    During this time, Wyoming (1915), Texas (1919), Iowa (1923), Nevada (1923), Oregon (1923), Washington (1923), Arkansas (1923), and Nebraska and New York (1927).

  • 48 states have now enacted marijuana regulatory laws

  • Marijuana Tax Act

    Recreational marijuana was done for but medicinal marijuana was still around until this act got passed.

  • Marijuana removed from the Pharmacopeia

  • Boggs Act create mandatory minimum sentences

  • Congress adds Marijuana to Narcotics Control Act

  • Controlled Substances Act claims marijuana has no medical use

  • New Mexico first state to pass laws recognizing marijuana having medical benefits

    Not to be confused with medical marijuana

  • California becomes first state to pass legal medical marijuana

  • Alaska, Oregon and Washington legalize medical

  • Main legalizes medical

  • Hawaii Colorado and Nevada legalizes medical

  • Montana and Vermont legalizes medical

  • Rhode Island legalizes medical

  • New Mexico legalizes medical

  • Michigan legalizes medical

  • New Jersey, DC and Arizona legalize medical

  • Delaware legalizes medical

  • Connecticut and Massachusetts legalize medical

  • Colorado passes legal and medicinal use

  • Washington allows recreational and medicinal

  • New Hampshire and Illinois legalize medical

  • Maryland, Minnesota and New York legalize medical

  • Alaska legalizes recreational and medicinal use

  • Oregon passes legal medical and recreational

  • Maine allows recreational and medicinal

  • Massachusetts passes recreational and medicinal

  • Nevada legalizes medical and recreational