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New Mexico was the first state to enacted a medical marijuana law in 1978, when a man named Lynn Pierson, who was a cancer patient, lobbied New Mexico’s state legislature for legal access to cannabis. The bill originally passed in 1978, but was blocked by the federal government. In 2007, New Mexico once again legalized medical marijuana, calling the legislation “The Lynn and Er …
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Arizona first introduced a policy reform initiative for cannabis in 1996. 65% of voters approved the policy,allowing physicians to prescribe cannabis to patients who needed it.However, a few months later, state legislators repealed the initiative, but the repeal was rejected by voters. In 2002, Proposition 203 was a medical cannabis initiative legalizing it’s use as well as sou …
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The use of cannabis in the state of Utah is currently limited to those who need it for medical reasons. However, Utahns get the chance in November 2020 to vote on legalizing it for recreational use by adults twenty-one and older. For the time being, Utah remains a medical use cannabis state and to distribute products to registered patients or caregivers there are regulations th …
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