Legalization Roundup: New York & Beyond

New York’s medical cannabis program made a major announcement, Minnesota patients are pinching pennies to get their medicine, the governor of Wyoming is looking at legalization, and if you’re a Canadian patient, your wallet might be getting a break soon. Here’s what’s happening in the cannabis world – are you informed?

U.S. Cannabis Updates

COLORADO

Representative Jon Keyser (R-Morrison) is proposing a new bill for the 2016 legislative session that would enable the tracking of marijuana-related offenses in order to develop a separate charge for driving under the influence of cannabis. He and Representative Jonathan Singer (D-Longmont) are working together to fine-tune a bill related to impaired driving that differentiates from driving under the influence of alcohol or other drugs, as they are currently lumped together in the same category with the same penalties.

Colorado State Troopers began collecting data in January 2014 about the type of impaired driving citations that were...

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