In California, Colorado, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington , businesses need not currently accommodate employees who legally use marijuana for medicinal purposes.
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The Constitution allows the federal government to restrict interstate commerce, and the federal laws forbidding the interstate transfer of marijuana would remain in effect.
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According to a Gallup poll, as of December 2012, 64% of Americans were opposed to the federal government regulating marijuana when it contrasts with state law.
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Voters in Arkansas rejected a similar measure, while voters in Montana, where medical marijuana is already legal, approved a measure keeping more stringent restrictions in place.
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Nullification is at the forefront of debates about the relationship between the states and the federal government with respect to immigration and medical marijuana, among other issues.
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Arizona and Delaware extend that by forbidding businesses from refusing to hire applicants or disciplining employees on the basis of drug tests that reveal marijuana components or metabolites.
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Finally, the RAND report raises a powerful counter to the arguments made by proponents of Proposition 19, namely that legalizing marijuana would result in increased consumption of the drug.
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In 1931, mobster Al Capone was finally put behind bars because he was c onvicted of multiple tax-evasion charges, and the IRS is taking a similar approach with medical marijuana today.
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The Kentucky case resulting in the ruling involved the police smelling marijuana in the hallway of an apartment building while chasing a suspect they believed was engaged in selling crack cocaine.
Enacted in January 2010, the New Jersey Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act allowed registered physicians to prescribe medical marijuana to patients with "debilitating medical conditions, " such as cancer and multiple sclerosis.
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The poll also didn't ask about Cuomo's push for a law to provide state tuition assistance to college-bound illegal immigrants, and the decriminalization of public possession of small amounts of marijuana.
He also said that Dutch tourism organizations are closely following the situation surrounding marijuana in the US. If pot is legalized in California, Pierre says, Dutch businesses could lose American tourists during winter months.
While they did not embrace wholesale legalization for production and sale of any amount of marijuana, voters in these states nonetheless chose to make it legal to possess and grow marijuana.
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Her arrest and detention after Mexican authorities said they found 12 pounds of marijuana under her bus seat illustrates just one of the perils Americans face while traveling south of the border.
They won in the lower courts, but today the Supreme Court, by a 6-to-3 vote, ruled that the federal government was within its rights to prosecute them and other medical marijuana users.
Just as the process of repealing national alcohol prohibition began with individual states repealing their own prohibition laws, so individual states must now take the initiative with respect to repealing marijuana prohibition laws.
John Bonacic, a veteran Republican who represents several mid-Hudson Valley counties west of Poughkeepsie, said he is "open" to medical marijuana legalization, if the drug is dispensed with a prescription from a physician.
Mr. Davis's record includes arrests for minor theft offenses in Pennsylvania and one marijuana bust in New York in which charges were dropped, the official said, with nothing indicating a tendency towards violence.
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After all, in 2011 Gallup found that a plurality of Americans support the legalization of marijuana, and in 2010 fully 70% of Americans supported using marijuana to alleviate pain and suffering.
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One frequent argument for legalization is that it will generate a fiscal windfall by reducing expenditure on marijuana arrests, prosecutions, and incarceration and by allowing the state to collect tax revenue on legalized sales.
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Colorado already has intensive rules aimed at keeping its medical marijuana market in line, including the digital tracking of cannabis, bar codes on every plant, surveillance video and manifests of all legal pot shipments.
Awaiting discussion is Cuomo's proposed restrictions to the stop and frisk tactic being used by New York City police and the governor's plan to de-criminalize the small amounts of marijuana often found during the frisks.
Having served half of a 14-day sentence for violating probation from a previous drink-driving conviction, he was then fined for possessing 28 grams of marijuana, speeding and driving with no licence or proof of insurance.
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In addition to "Hangover III, " Warner Bros. is releasing "We're the Millers" (Aug. 9), reuniting Jason Sudeikis and Jennifer Aniston ("Horrible Bosses") as a drug dealer and a stripper, respectively, who become reluctant international marijuana smugglers.
Dr Shuabe Manjra, Chairperson of the South African Institute for Drug Free Sport (SAIDS), under whose auspices random tests are done by qualified doping control officers, says marijuana does not enhance the performance of a player.
Kemp Hannon, the Long Islander who is chairman of the Senate Health Committee, said it doesn't make sense to loosen marijuana laws at a time of growing concern about illegal sales and abuse of prescription drugs.
"It's the right thing to do, and it will allow us to target police resources where they're needed most, " Bloomberg said, adding that he continues to back a push to change state laws surrounding marijuana possession.
With law enforcement focused on stopping violent crime rather than arresting marijuana users, police and other public servants will see a host of new opportunities opened up to them according to Franklin, including better community relations.
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Cardoso said the group called for only the decriminalization of marijuana and not other illicit drugs because "you have to start somewhere" and it would have been unrealistic to ask the same for all drugs, EFE said.
In 2001, the Court ruled against the government in a case involving use of a ground-based thermal imager to detect an indoor marijuana growing operation by measuring the temperature of the roof and outside wall of a house.
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