Here's what you need to know as Canada legalizes marijuana.
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Canada could not try this route if it legalizes nationwide.
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Some news reports say that the law "legalizes" the camp system.
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"Nothing in modernizing CRA regulations encourages or legalizes redlining," Otting said.
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The measure legalizes marijuana possession, home growing, and sales for adults.
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In theory, Canada could face diplomatic backlash if it legalizes pot.
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States can now pass legislation that legalizes, regulates and taxes the activity.
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It also legalizes and prolongs search-and-seizure powers announced last month.
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The bill also legalizes self-serve beer dispensers at restaurants and bars.
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It retroactively legalizes about 4,000 settler homes built on privately owned Palestinian land.
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And the farm bill signed this month legalizes hemp at the federal level.
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Montana's Initiative 182 legalizes marijuana for medical purposes as prescribed by a physician.
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North Dakota's Initiated Statutory Measure No. 5 legalizes the use of medical marijuana.
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Nevada law specifically legalizes entity betting, but it's a small industry right now.
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There will, of course, be even greater access if the state fully legalizes.
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Trump writes an executive order to end his own policy; Canada legalizes cannabis use.
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Drugs: Legalize marijuana and control drug prices Proposition 64 legalizes recreational marijuana in California.
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The new law legalizes remarriage for a widow six months after her husband's death.
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The proposal legalizes medical marijuana for people with PTSD, epilepsy, and other serious conditions.
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For example, studies show that opioid use goes down when a state legalizes marijuana.
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In late December, he issued an emergency decree that effectively legalizes politically-motivated lynching.
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Child marriage is an outrage not only when it legalizes or ignores statutory rape.
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If the U.K. legalizes marijuana — and the country did just start allowing doctors to prescribe it — and Germany comes around, and if the United States legalizes it on a federal level, then it becomes an industry on par with tobacco or booze.
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Nathan Deal has said he won't sign a measure that legalizes discrimination, though Indiana Gov.
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Ohio's House Bill 523 (which was passed on May 26), only legalizes non-smokeable marijuana.
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Canada legalizes recreational marijuana Canada became the first major world economy to legalize recreational marijuana.
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However, even if every state legalizes, cannabis would still remain illegal under federal law, he noted.
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The measure legalizes a practice already commonplace at many salons, where it's part of the pampering.
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The ballot initiative, Proposition 2, legalizes the use of medical marijuana for people with qualifying illnesses.
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As Canada legalizes, pot industry activists and business owners have their eyes set squarely on U.S. prohibition.
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In his ruling, he cited the Supreme Court's decision last year that legalizes same-sex marriage nationwide.
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Even if a state legalizes marijuana under its own laws, pot remains illegal at the federal level.
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Mary Fallin hit out at the new law Tuesday, saying it essentially legalizes marijuana use for all.
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"As the government legalizes, it opens up a whole new world of conversations in Canada," Pertz said.
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Some counties, like on Long Island, said that if the state legalizes marijuana, they may opt out.
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It will still be another year before Justin Trudeau legalizes pot It will still be another year before Justin Trudeau legalizes pot The Canadian government is weeks away from unveiling its legislation to legalize recreational marijuana, with reports indicating the market could open up as early as July 2018.
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But regardless of what ISPs disclose, the order, in fact, legalizes any such action they wish to take.
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This week Andrew Cuomo, New York's governor, signed into law a measure that legalizes daily fantasy sports sites.
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The Illinois law, which legalizes adult usage and allows for marijuana sales from licensed dispensaries starting on Jan.
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The domino thesis predicts that when one state legalizes cannabis for adult use, its neighbors may quickly follow.
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Alberta has said it will look into allowing cannabis lounges after the federal government legalizes edibles sometime in 2019.
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Utah Governor Gary Herbert has made parenting a lot easier by signing a bill that legalizes "free-range" parenting.
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"As long as we're working on the project, we'll add every country that legalizes same-sex marriage," said Boom.
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Illinois lawmakers in June passed a bill that legalizes the possession and commercial sale of marijuana in the state.
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He was referring to California's now year-old End of Life Option law, which legalizes medical aid in dying.
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If California legalizes recreational use next week, the nation's biggest Congressional delegation will have a big stake in the issue.
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Pennsylvania Legalizes Medical MarijuanaPennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has signed a bipartisan bill into law legalizing medical marijuana in his state.
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Azer predicts the market for US cannabis will hit $80 billion by 2030 if the federal government legalizes the drug.
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Germany legalizes gay marriage; the revised travel ban goes into effect; Trump's voter fraud commission trips itself up almost immediately.
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On Friday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions introduced new guidance for federal agencies that advocates fear legalizes discrimination against the LGBTQ community.
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If New York legalizes marijuana use, it could create a $3.1 billion market, New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer told CNBC.
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Deal says he will not sign a measure that "legalizes discrimination," he most recently said he is still considering the matter.
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If Utah legalizes medical marijuana on Tuesday, it could signal that the church is no longer all-powerful in state politics.
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San Francisco (CNN Business)New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says this will be the year that his state legalizes recreational cannabis.
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A state can pass a constitutional amendment that legalizes secession with a vote from three-fourths of the other 49 states.
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If New York fully legalizes marijuana, it will become the 11th state — and the second most populous, after California — to do so.
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"In fact, this bill legalizes discrimination — government imposed top-down discrimination against those with time-honored views of marriage and gender," Rep.
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There's a bill on the mayor's desk that legalizes scooters in New York specifically in the outer boroughs, but not in Manhattan.
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If New York fully legalizes marijuana, it will become the 10th state — and the second most populous, after California — to do so.
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The new framework legalizes pedal-assist bikes while keeping in tact regulations that make illegal throttle e-bikes that go above 20 MPH.
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Canadian cannabis producers in the past few months have been signing up deals with distributors as the country legalizes recreational marijuana in October.
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"It basically legalizes racial profiling because you can be stopped and questioned and put in detention based on how you look," she said.
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Regardless of whether New Jersey actually legalizes pot in Murphy's first 100 days in office, that's certainly good news for supporters of legalization.
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But community leaders say the talks will go nowhere unless the government legalizes the bush refineries, which support tens of thousands of people locally.
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There's good news for Airbnb in Japan where the government has approved legislation that legalizes its service, and others like it, in the country.
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The study also shows evidence of "spillover effects"—when an inland state legalizes medical marijuana, the nearest border state sees a decrease in crime.
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"If Canada legalizes, it's going to make it even worse—more are going to posses it and admit to smoking it," Saunders told VICE.
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Also known as the Cannabis Act, Bill C-45 legalizes weed possession and sales for adults, and allows up to four marijuana plants per household.
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The Associated Press projected that State Question 778, which legalizes the growth, sale and use of marijuana for medicinal purposes, had been approved by voters.
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Vivien Azer, an analyst at Cowen, predicts the US market for cannabis will hit $80 billion by 2030 if the federal government legalizes the drug.
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The House Judiciary Committee approved a bill Wednesday that legalizes marijuana on the federal level, removing it from Schedule 1 of the Controlled Substances Act.
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They're glorious, over-the-top bloodbaths set in a dystopian future where America legalizes crime once a year so people can let off some steam.
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As Europe legalizes, companies there are taking their playbooks from the "vertically-integrated" strategies that companies had developed to capture the US and Canadian markets.
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So anytime a state legalizes marijuana, it needs to produce marijuana in state, and that's requiring them to, in essence, create local industries of marijuana producers.
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Instead of amending the Civil Code's definition of marriage as being only between a man and a woman, the new law explicitly legalizes same-sex marriage.
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California's Adult Use of Marijuana Act, or Proposition 64, legalizes cannabis possession of up to an ounce and six plants at home for adults over 21.
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Brink's management is eyeing the Canadian marijuana market, an opportunity it cannot capitalize on in U.S. states where marijuana sales have been legalizes, given federal prohibition.
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The bill legalizes possession of up to an ounce of marijuana and up to two mature and four immature cannabis plants for adults 21 and older.
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"This is a historic day for the cannabis movement as California officially legalizes marijuana for the adult market," Max Simon, of Green Flower Media, told Business Insider.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's lower house of parliament on Thursday passed a law that legalizes the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes for people who are chronically ill.
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Greg Abbott (R) late Monday signed a bill that legalizes lemonade stands run by children after police had shut down a lemonade stand in a Texas town.
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Canadian marijuana stocks climbed steeply between October and January as investors piled in in anticipation of a sales surge when the country legalizes adult use this year.
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The practice has existed for centuries but is shunned by younger and less traditional Iranians, who see it as an archaic religious loophole that effectively legalizes prostitution.
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The fine print: The bill legalizes one ounce or less of cannabis, or the equivalent of one ounce of cannabis-infused products such as oils and edibles.
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The state recently adopted a law that legalizes telemedicine broadly, as long as doctors using this technology meet a certain standard of care in their treatment of patients.
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"If California legalizes marijuana, the retail sales will surpass the entire medical and recreational sales market that now exists," said Chris Walsh, managing editor of Marijuana Business Daily.
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" GW Pharmaceuticals: "This is a very difficult situation because if every state legalizes marijuana than GW Pharma is not going to be able to pull this thing off.
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I would just say it remains a violation of federal law to distribute marijuana throughout any place in the United States, whether a state legalizes it or not.
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If California legalizes recreational marijuana use Tuesday, "we think it would triple the size of the legal market," said financial services firm Cowen and Company analyst Vivien Azer.
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Matt Krause (R), legalizes temporary lemonade stands and other stands selling nonalcoholic beverages operated by minors on both private property or public parks, The Dallas Morning News reported.
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Wade, which legalizes the procedure across the U.S. Democratic presidential candidates have seized on the news out of Alabama, calling the measure an attack on women's reproductive health.
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Australia legalizes same-sex marriage Marriage equality cleared the final hurdle after Australia's Parliament voted to legalize same-sex marriage after years of political jockeying and public debate.
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Philip D. Murphy signed a bill on Monday that legalizes wagering, with gambling set to start on Thursday — just in time for the start of the World Cup.
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Another way to think about the new law is that it effectively legalizes taxation of more than 100 percent of income for high earners in high-tax states.
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Shares of companies connected to the marijuana industry soared Thursday following a House Committee's vote Wednesday to pass a bill that effectively legalizes marijuana on a federal level.
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If it overcomes the obstacles ahead, the bill that legalizes abortion will override Argentina's current law, which requires that women who voluntarily terminate their pregnancy be arrested and prosecuted.
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The Act, which has received overwhelming support in both the House of Commons and Lords, formally legalizes a number of mass surveillance programs revealed by Edward Snowden in 2013.
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It is absurd in its inception and unjust in its application—a government racket based on a preposterous premise that effectively legalizes robbery and violates due process of law.
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Since the U.S. Supreme Court a year ago overturned a 1992 federal ban on sports wagering outside of Nevada, states have passed legislation that legalizes, regulates and taxes the activity.
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Voters gave a definite yes to Amendment 210.77, which legalizes medical marijuana, taxes it at 21% and guarantees that the money will be spent on health care services for veterans.
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The law legalizes possession of up to 1 ounce of the drug, two mature plants and up to four immature plants by people 21 and older beginning on July 1.
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At the insistence of Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate majority leader, it legalizes industrial hemp as a crop, giving farmers hurting from the loss of tobacco a boost.
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Shares of companies connected to the marijuana industry soared Thursday following a House Committee's vote the previous day to pass a bill that effectively legalizes marijuana on a federal level.
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And with each state that legalizes, the for-profit marijuana industry only grows stronger — more able to lobby lawmakers and fund ballot initiatives that enable commercialization, ever closer to becoming unstoppable.
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Canada's decision to legalize pot would be the most high-profile rebuke of the international treaties since they were signed In theory, Canada could face diplomatic backlash if it legalizes pot.
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In a March interview with Brookings Institution, former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb said it could take several years before the agency fully legalizes CBD for use in food products and dietary supplements.
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In a historic first for Asia, Taiwan implemented a law that legalizes same-sex marriage on Friday, May 17—which also happens to be the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia.
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The amendment legalizes for medical purposes the production, import, export, possession and use of marijuana, as well as a locally grown plant called kratom that is used as a stimulant and painkiller.
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But that's set to change if the US legalizes cannabis at the federal level, says Steven Miller, a due diligence expert at Thomson Reuters, who expects a "green rush," if that happens.
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"In fact, this bill legalizes discrimination — government imposed top-down discrimination against those with time-honored views of marriage and gender," she said in remarks on the floor ahead of the vote.
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In a recent interview with Brookings Institution, outgoing FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb said it could take several years before the agency fully legalizes CBD for use in food products and dietary supplements.
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"I do not believe there's any argument [that] because a state legalizes marijuana, that the federal law against marijuana is no longer in existence," Sessions said in a radio interview this October.
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The big picture: The massive bill legalizes the cultivation of industrialized hemp and provides billions in aid to farmers who have seen their business bogged down by the U.S. trade war with China.
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The move would allow Israel to sidestep civilian hospitals, which have so far refused to force-feed strikers, despite an Israeli law passed in July 2015 that legalizes the force-feeding of prisoners.
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It's already there and this legalizes it, and you can tax it and all those types of things ... [You aren't] worried at all about someone who wasn't exposed to gambling or wasn't sports gambling.
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SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile's Congress approved late on Wednesday night a bill that legalizes abortion in certain cases, though it will still need to win the approval of the nation's courts to go into effect.
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The president also expressed anger Nielsen and DHS weren't doing more to take advantage of the Department of Justice's new "zero tolerance" immigration policy, which legalizes the separation of families caught crossing the border.
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Rosselló has spent his last days in office signing bills into law, including one that legalizes sports betting, and filling positions in the government that became vacant due to resignations over the last few weeks.
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Democrats have balked at the plan, while some Republicans have insisted it be a condition of any bill that legalizes the undocumented young adults, known as Dreamers, who could soon lose their protection against deportation.
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If federal law doesn't change by the time Canada legalizes marijuana nationwide in 2018, just watch our neighbors to the north find a way to get their banking system on board for American cannabis businesses.
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Florida's measure legalizes marijuana for specific medical conditions (cancer, epilepsy, HIV, PTSD, and other similarly severe illnesses) with permission from a doctor, allows medical marijuana dispensaries, and charges the Florida Department of Health with regulation.
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Even though the White House did not join the widespread criticism this week of a new Israeli law which retroactively legalizes about 4,000 existing settler homes, its pro-Israel approach shows signs of being more nuanced.
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The city's District Attorney's office said Wednesday that it will dismiss and seal 264,038 misdemeanors obtained before the passing of Proposition 64, legislation passed in November 2016 that legalizes recreational marijuana for those 21 and older.
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The city's District Attorney's office said Wednesday that it will dismiss and seal 3,038 misdemeanors obtained before the passing of Proposition 64, legislation passed in November 2016 that legalizes recreational marijuana for those 21 and older.
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They worry that once the country legalizes a drug with the potential for profit, the country, through state and federal legal changes, will inevitably march in that direction — much like it has for tobacco and alcohol.
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The Act replaced DRIPA in 2016, and, among other measures, legalizes targeted hacking by the UK security services and requires that ISPs keep a record of all citizens' web browsing habits for at least a year.
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They would prefer a candidate who legalizes undocumented immigrants, outlaws abortion, makes college education free, wipes out drugs and gangs, rolls back the legal right to gay marriage, supports small-business credits and raises the minimum wage.
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A humane immigration policy that legalizes most of those who are here and offers permanent visas for those wanting to start businesses in left-behind parts of America would be good for the country economically and spiritually.
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Opponents claim it legalizes discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, while supporters say it protects the rights of therapists by allowing them to refer patients to a counselor who can more appropriately handle their needs.
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The hemp boom in Washington shows what can happen virtually overnight when the heavy hand of the federal government moves the needle for a product that had once been considered a fringe agricultural movement and legalizes it.
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He has promised to sign the First Amendment Defense Act, which legalizes a variety of anti-LGBTQ discriminatory acts in the name of religious freedom, and his incoming cabinet is already riddled with appointments who oppose LGBTQ rights.
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He has promised to sign the First Amendment Defense Act, which legalizes a variety of anti-LGBTQ discriminatory acts in the name of religious freedom, and his incoming cabinet is already riddled with appointments who oppose LGBTQ rights.
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Canopy acquired medicinal marijuana producers in South America and Africa last year, and in April secured the right to buy New York based Acreage Holdings Inc for $603 billion if the United States legalizes production and sale of cannabis.
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It also found that six out of every 10 cannabis users currently prefer to consume it in edible form, which means the black market in Canada for those products will continue to thrive until the federal government legalizes it too.
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Instead of wasting taxpayer's time and money with talks of a wall and a deportation force, our government should be focused on creating an immigration system that legalizes undocumented workers, and welcomes new, hardworking immigrants into our society and labor force.
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Obviously, the most important state is that last one—if California legalizes weed, it will open up a massive new market to pot merchants and take the US one step closer to making weed legal from sea to shining sea.
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The cannabis industry — and all of its constituent parts, including pharmaceuticals, recreational products, industrial hemp, and ancillary software and services — could become an $80 billion industry by 2030 if the federal government legalizes the drug, according to the investment bank Cowen.
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Matt Karnes, the founder of GreenWave Advisors, a financial research firm focused on the industry, estimates that legal retail cannabis sales will grow about 35 percent a year, to $35 billion, by 2022, assuming every state legalizes some form of marijuana use.
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"We're obviously glad that this is going to provide some relief, but what we really need is a clean Dream Act," a reference to a bill that only legalizes the young immigrants without also imposing other immigration changes that Republicans are demanding.
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"Since 2011 the 38-year-old has been running a criminal organisation which administers one of the most important websites of electronic crime in the world," police said in a statement, describing an alleged money laundering operation that "legalizes proceeds from illegal activities".
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The law also lets people with concealed-carry permits carry guns into the state capitol, legalizes short-barrel shotguns and rifles, makes firearm permit holders' personal information confidential, and raises the bar for prosecutors seeking to tack on weapons charges for certain felonies.
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Clinton should make a centerpiece of her presidential campaign her proposal for a constitutional amendment to overturn the Citizens United case, which virtually legalizes the buying of our politics and prostitution of our government through massive secret donations that pollute and corrupt our democracy.
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States may not want to miss out on cannabis revenuesThe substantial amount of sales coming from neighboring states, Zuanic said, "should lend further credence to the domino effect thesis," or the idea that when one state legalizes, neighboring states may follow in its steps.
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Without comprehensive immigration reform that either requires employers to hire exclusively legal workers or legalizes cheap migrant labor, the laws of supply and demand will ensure that employers will continue to hire from the population of at least 11.3 million undocumented migrants in the United States.
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Court victory legalizes 3D-printable gun blueprints The affidavit, published in full on Ars Technica, details how the two met in person on August 15 at a local coffee shop and Wilson then took the victim to a hotel in a vehicle registered to his company, Defense Distributed.
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Cerdá, who's also a drug policy expert at New York University, cautioned that the results should not be taken to mean that legalization is a bad idea, but that the way the country legalizes should better take into account, and try to prevent, more problematic use and addiction.
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Court victory legalizes 3D-printable gun blueprints However, in a Monday ruling, Judge Robert S. Lasnik of the Federal District Court in Seattle ruled in favor of attorneys general from Washington, D.C. and 19 states who argued that the distribution of 3D-printed guns posed a threat to national safety.
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"When one state legalizes it, it completely undermines the prohibition of its neighbors, at which point, even if the neighbors would have preferred prohibition for everybody, if it's flowing across state lines, they're both losing out on prohibition and not getting the money they would have otherwise gotten," Caulkins said.
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MORE FROM REUTERSIslamic State sees chance to revive fortunes in Trump presidencyIsrael legalizes settler homes on private Palestinian landGALLERY: Ukraine's winter war heats up "If you're told I lead a double life with Mr Gallet it's because my hologram has escaped," Macron told supporters, referring to Radio France chief executive Mathieu Gallet.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions has no love for legalized marijuana either, telling reporters last week, "States, they can pass the laws they choose... I would just say it does remain a violation of federal law to distribute marijuana throughout any place in the United States, whether a state legalizes it or not."
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In "Canada Legalizes Recreational Marijuana, and a National Experiment Begins," Dan Bilefsky writes: MONTREAL — Canada on Wednesday became the first major world economy to legalize recreational marijuana, beginning a national experiment that will alter the country's social, cultural and economic fabric, and present the nation with its biggest public policy challenge in decades.
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Legal experts and LGBTQ advocates widely expected the Supreme Court to rule that states' same-sex marriage bans are unconstitutional — a decision that legalizes same-sex marriage across the US. Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wrote the majority opinion that brought marriage equality to all 50 states, also wrote the majority opinion in United States v.
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In a win for Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellPelosi, Schumer press for gun screenings as Trump inches away The malware election: Returning to paper ballots only way to prevent hacking First House Republican backs bill banning assault weapons MORE (R-Ky.), the final farm bill also legalizes hemp as an agricultural commodity.
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The new burial law, sponsored by Michael H. Ranzenhofer, a Republican state senator from Erie County, and James F. Brennan, a Democratic state assemblyman from Brooklyn, legalizes that impulse, and goes further: It also allows a pet's cremated remains to be buried later in the same cemetery as the owner if the owner dies first.
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That will also force Republicans to support a funding bill that legalizes the protection of illegal immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children (the DACA program that Trump says he'll end in six months if Congress doesn't act.) A top Republican close to leadership captures the prevailing sentiment on Capitol Hill today: "Dems bluffed their way into total victory."
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"What I understood the president to have told Senator Cory GardnerCory Scott GardnerThe Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape The Hill's Morning Report — Trump and the new Israel-'squad' controversy Colorado candidates vying to take on Gardner warn Hickenlooper they won't back down MORE was that if a state legalizes marijuana, he may be supportive of legislation that would honor that state's decision," the former Alabama senator said.
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Product wise, the companies' offerings are essentially identical: both let you play short-term, daily fantasy sports games across nearly every sport; both spend insane amounts of money to advertise with professional sports leagues and stadiums, mainly to compete with each other; both operate in the same gray area and, at the time of writing, have pulled out of 11 U.S. states; and both are locked in legal battles with these states (and others) to convince them to pass legislation that legalizes the industry and firmly delineates daily fantasy sports from illegal sports gambling.
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It was an eventful, up-and-down year in the right to repair world, with 19 state-level bills proposed around the United States (none passed.) At the federal level, the situation was a bit brighter, with the FTC ruling once and for all that warranty-void-if-removed stickers are illegal (and demanding that six companies change their packaging after a Motherboard investigation into the practice.) The Librarian of Congress granted a broad exemption that legalizes repair on most electronic devices, but Apple continued its war on repair: The company has a built-in kill switch that will prevent third-party repair on new MacBook Pros, the Department of Homeland Security seized Apple repair parts from two prominent right-to-repair activists in the US, and Apple sued an independent repair tech in Norway—and lost.
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