THE WASH DAILY with Joey SLLiks CANNABIS NEWS REPORT Alabama MMJ Bill Passed Senate To House Floor

Thursday April 15 2021
in todays report

Alabama Medical Marijuana Legalization Bill That Already Passed The Senate Heads To House Floor

One problematic provision, advocates say, is that patients with chronic or intractable pain could only be recommended medical marijuana in cases where “conventional therapeutic intervention and opiate therapy is contraindicated or has proved ineffective.”

The bill also prohibits raw cannabis, smoking, vaping and candy or baked good products. Patients would instead be allowed to purchase capsules, lozenges, oils, suppositories and topical patches.

https://www.marijuanamoment.ne....t/alabama-medical-ma

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69 Percent Of Americans Now Support Legalizing Marijuana—An All-Time High, Quinnipiac Poll Finds

That includes a strong majority of Republicans (62 percent), too. In
fact, there’s majority support among every demographic that was included
in the survey, including those 65 and older (51 percent).

Quinnipiac University, which conducted the new poll, has consistently
surveyed where Americans stand on the issue since 2012, and this is the
highest level of support yet. It comes at a time when numerous state
legislatures are either approving or considering proposals to legalize
and as top congressional lawmakers are in the process of introducing
bills to legalize federally.

The new figure is 18 percentage points higher than when respondents
were first asked about their views on the reform nine years ago.

A breakout also found that 70 percent of registered voters back legalization, compared to just 24 percent who are opposed.

Remarkably, nearly two in three people who identify as Republicans
support enacting the policy change. As tends to be the case, Democrats
were most likely to favor legalization, at 78 percent.

The [survey](https://poll.qu.edu/national/r....elease-detail?Releas involved interviews with 1,237 American adults from April 8-12. The margin of error is +/- 2.8 percentage points.

[https://www.marijuanamoment.ne....t/69-percent-of-amer

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Biden’s Already On Board With Federal Marijuana Legalization Even If He Doesn’t Use That Word, Booker Says

Booker said in a recent interview that Biden’s stance in favor of
“decriminalization” will be enough to advance the reform legislation
he’s working on with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR).

That reason being, he said, is that what the reform proposal would
accomplish at the federal level is effectively decriminalizing marijuana
by removing it from the list of controlled substances and letting
states set their own policies—[something Biden does supports](https://www.marijuanamoment.ne....t/where-presidential

“I have a great partner” in the president, Booker said in an
interview on the podcast Hell & High Water that was published on
Wednesday. “He believes in decriminalization—and as I said to him the
first time we talked about it was, ‘well, my bill is no different. I
think states should be allowed to do what they want.'”

[https://www.marijuanamoment.ne....t/bidens-already-on-