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8 States and DC with Pending Legislation or Ballot Measures to Legalize Medical Marijuana
(as of July 12, 2010)
| 1. Arizona | 2. District of Columbia | 3. Illinois | 4. Massachusetts | 5. New York |
| 6. North Carolina | 7. Ohio | 8. Pennsylvania | 9. South Dakota |
As of this date, the federal government claims that marijuana is not medicine and in Gonzales v. Raich (2005), the United States Supreme Court held that the federal government has the constitutional authority to prohibit marijuana for all purposes. Thus, federal law enforcement officials may prosecute medical marijuana patients, even if they grow their own medicine and even if they reside in a state where medical marijuana use is protected under state law. The Court indicated that Congress and the Food and Drug Administration should work to resolve this issue.
Penalties for Marijuana Use or Possession in Texas:
To date, because the state of Texas does not legally view marijuana as a medicinal drug, any individual found in possession will be charged on a criminal platform. Debate about the benefits and pitfalls of the drug have been in progress for quite some time, and articles for and against reforming the laws can be seen in popular newspapers often.
| Possession of less than 2 oz* | Class B Misdemeanor | Penalties include incarceration for a period of up to 180 days with a fine of $2,000 |
| Possession of between 2 oz and 4 oz* | Class A Misdemeanor | Penalties include incarceration for a period of up to 1 year with a fine of $4,000 |
| Possession of between 4 oz and 1 lb* | State Jail Felony | Penalties include incarceration for a period of 180 days to 2 years, with a fine of $10,000 |
| Possession of between 1 lb and 5 lbs | State Jail Felony | Penalties include incarceration for a period of 180 days to 2 years, with a fine of $10,000 |
| Possession of between 5 lbs and 50 lbs | Felony of the Third Degree | Penalties include incarceration for a period of 2 to 10 years with a fine of $10,000 |
| Possession of between 50 lbs and 2,000 lbs | Felony of the Second Degree | Penalties include incarceration for a period of 2 to 20 years with a fine of $10,000 |
| Possession of greater than 2,000 lbs | Felony | Penalties include incarceration for a period of 5 to 99 years with a fine of $50,000 |
17 comments:
The marijuana laws in Texas are ridicules
so is the poster's spelling
Perhaps a more reasonable punishment for peddling marijuana might be to make the MJ sellers sit in a supervised jail cell and smoke the stuff hour after hour until it does to them what they are doing to people to whom they peddle the stuff.
Fact is that anything that puts ANY kind of smoke in a person's lungs is BAD NEWS. MJ just puts some extra garbage in there that serves to warp a person's brain, provided they had one in the first place.
Good luck to pot smokers... they need plenty of it.
Ive smoked pot for years and dont drink alcohol. I dont smoke to excesses like alcoholics drink in excess. I dont harm anyone and know many people who smoke weed recreational. I have lived in Liberty County for ten years and you would be surprised who smokes. We know people who have many aliments who smoke for relief and have to break the law to get relief, that is not right.
People who have diseases should be able to smoke without being criminals. I dont smoke pot but have no problem with people smoking who have pain.
They just as well legalize MJ, because whom ever wants to smoke the stuff, can get it any time they want it. It will be legal in the future because our government has put a tax on just about everything it can and this will be something else they can TAX.
The pictures on this page of the two men commiting the crime of mail tampering---is that Humpy and Gary Parker???
If I wanted to make sure I had an advantage in competing with another individual or another country, I would really promote the smoking of pot and any other drug that is illegal now. Why do we insist on considering helping in our demise?
Okay, let me get this straight. You smoke a joint and no im[pairment would show up in a scientifically taken test? Joe drinks a beer and you smoke a joint and you think ???? what, both of you should be able to drive on the same streets with my sixteen year old? Keep it illegal and keep winning this argument in your own mind.
If it is a choice between legalizing pot or going back to prohibition, sign me up for prohibition. But I am thankful that is the pothead argument....always philosophical and equivocating with no concern for morality or children or the welfare of the nation. ALWAYS rooted in the their own desire to get high and not be judged for their self centeredness. Dude, whats up!
Currently, more than 60 U.S. and international health organizations -- including the American Public Health Association [9] , Health Canada[10] and the Federation of American Scientists[11] -- support granting patients immediate legal access to medicinal marijuana under a physician's supervision. (Click here for a complete listing of organizations.) Several others, including the American Cancer Society[12] and the American Medical Association[13] support the facilitation of wide-scale, clinical research trials so that physicians may better assess cannabis' medical potential. In addition, a 1991 Harvard study found that 44 percent of oncologists had previously advised marijuana therapy to their patients.[14] Fifty percent responded they would do so if marijuana was legal. A more recent national survey performed by researchers at Providence Rhode Island Hospital found that nearly half of physicians with opinions supported legalizing medical marijuana.[15]
If you want to try to say pot is immoral, show me a place in the bible that says pot or the use of it is illegal or immoral. Why dont you grow up and get with the times.
God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth.…To you it will be for meat." … And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. (Genesis 1:29-31) The Bible predicts some herb's prohibition. "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times, some shall … speak lies in hypocrisy … commanding to abstain from meats which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. (Paul: 1 Timothy 4:1-3)
One scripture? Are you kiddin me? How about all of the scripture that talk about sobriety. By the way I am trying to grow up. But perfection still escapes me. But I can read now. AND STUDY
How ridiculous. Ask any credible doctor if there are treatments as effective or more effective than marijuana and you will get a 100% answer: yes, yes yes.
"Candidates" can not put up signs, but an individual can have signs on their property 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
brings in great bucks for Cleveland's municipal airport, aka night refueling stop for drug planes! Now, just who still thinks that NORAD's competent, innocent, or engaged in the war on drugs; when they can't help seeing these flights on their radars?
drug planes? Couldn't be the LCSO looking the other way, (with due compensation therefrom,)could it?
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