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Vermont legislature on track to be first in U.S. to legalize marijuana
Source: Reuters
World | Mon Mar 14, 2016 8:18am EDT
Vermont legislature on track to be first in U.S. to legalize marijuana
MONTPELIER, VT. | BY SCOTT MALONE
Liberal-leaning Vermont could become the first U.S. state to legalize recreational marijuana use through legislation, rather than by voter initiative, in a move that advocates for the drug say could speed its acceptance across the nation.
State representatives this month are set to take up a bill passed by the state Senate in February that would allow adults over 21 to purchase and smoke the drug beginning in 2018.
The move follows a year of hearings in the Senate that lawmakers say allowed them to closely consider appropriate limits to place on the drug's use. The current proposal would prohibit users from growing plants at home and ban the sale of edible products containing marijuana extracts.
But lawmakers must act before the end of May, when the current session ends, a deadline that may prove difficult to meet. It is uncertain whether it has enough support in the Democratic-controlled House to pass.
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Vermont legislature on track to be first in U.S. to legalize marijuana
MONTPELIER, VT. | BY SCOTT MALONE
Liberal-leaning Vermont could become the first U.S. state to legalize recreational marijuana use through legislation, rather than by voter initiative, in a move that advocates for the drug say could speed its acceptance across the nation.
State representatives this month are set to take up a bill passed by the state Senate in February that would allow adults over 21 to purchase and smoke the drug beginning in 2018.
The move follows a year of hearings in the Senate that lawmakers say allowed them to closely consider appropriate limits to place on the drug's use. The current proposal would prohibit users from growing plants at home and ban the sale of edible products containing marijuana extracts.
But lawmakers must act before the end of May, when the current session ends, a deadline that may prove difficult to meet. It is uncertain whether it has enough support in the Democratic-controlled House to pass.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-vermont-marijuana-idUSKCN0WG13X
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I'd really love to move to Vermont. I enjoyed my time in Boston during college and always felt "at home" there, even though I was born and brought up in Atlanta (the child of Ohioan parents.)
No idea how I would earn a living at my age and with my lack of retirement savings due to an un-insured heart attack.
My wife would literally be in Heaven, though...
