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THE Weed Blog (blog)Sponsor Of Montana Medical Marijuana Overhaul Tries To Defend His BillThe 420 TimesThere has been much media coverage lately of the legal challenge to Senate Bill 423, the new Montana Marijuana Act recently enacted with strong bipar…

Deseret NewsMedical pot bill heads to House, Senate floorsAlbany Times Union(AP) — A panel of lawmakers has agreed on a final version of a proposal to overhaul Montana's medical marijuana industry. Senate Bill 423 will now go to the House an…

Non-Profits Wanted to Run Medical Marijuana Compassion CentersWGMD RadioState Representative Helene Keeley who is one of the co-sponsors of Senate Bill 17, which would legalize the use of medical marijuana in Delaware, tells WGMD News that the state is…

Bills that would require new applicants for temporary welfare assistance to undergo suspicionless drug tests—and pay for them themselves—are advancing in the Florida legislature. On Wednesday, House Bi…

A bipartisan group in the House has proposed some major changes that seek to restore Montana’s medical marijuana law to what people thought they were voting on in 2004.
Rep.  Cary Smith, R-Billings, said the amendments will be offered today at a…

A last minute effort to overhaul Montana’s medical marijuana law was introduced in the Senate Wednesday.
Senate Majority Leader Jeff Essmann, R-Billings, who led the subcommittee in crafting the measure, described Senate Bill 423 as having three p…

An Arkansas bill that would have required recipients of unemployment benefits to undergo random drug tests has been stopped in the state Senate. The Senate Health, Welfare and Labor Committee killed Senate Bill 15…

Outgoing California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has until Thursday, September 30, to decide the fate of Senate Bill 1449 — which would reduce adult marijuana possession charges from a criminal misdemeanor to a civil infraction. That gives reformers one final week to lobby for this sensible reform. If you have not yet contacted the Governor in [...]

On Monday, members of the California Assembly approved Senate Bill 1449, which reduces adult marijuana possession offenses in California from a criminal misdemeanor to an infraction, by a vote of 43 to 33.
The vote split largely along party lines, with Democrats voting 40 to 8 in favor of more lenient penalties and Republicans voting 2 [...]

On Tuesday, Congressional Representatives passed by voice vote H.R. 5143, the House version of the National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2010.
NORML first blogged about this federal legislation back in November, and encouraged supporters to contact their members of Congress in favor of this much-needed reform. This week the House did their part. Now it [...]