Personal use possession of 3 ounces or less of marijuana is a misdemeanor punishable by up to 1 year imprisonment and/or a fine up to $1,000 if for. If the quantity possessed is more than 3 ounces but less than 1 pound, it is a felony punishable by up to 5 years imprisonment and/or a fine up to $10,000.
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In 2014, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray signed a bill that decriminalized possession of up to an ounce (28 grams) of marijuana in the U.S. capital for persons 18 years of age or older. The law made possession a civil violation with a penalty of $25, lower than most city parking tickets.
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Cannabis is listed as a Schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, the highest classification under the legislation. This means that the substance has been claimed by the U.S. federal government to have both high abuse potential and no established medical use.
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The first attempt at federal regulation of marijuana came in 1906, with the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act. The act included cannabis among the various substances patent medicine companies were required to list on their labels in order that worried customers could avoid it.
http://origins.osu.edu/article/illegalization-marijuana-brief-history
For more on the global trade in drugs, read The Shifting Terrain of Latin American Drug Trafficking. On the first day of 2014, Colorado became the first state to permit marijuana dispensaries to sell pot for recreational use.
http://origins.osu.edu/article/illegalization-marijuana-brief-history
Today, in states with the most liberal marijuana laws, citizens’ access to the drug now resembles that of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, before the first attempts at federal regulation.
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Currently, the use of both recreational and medicinal marijuana has been entirely legalized in the states of Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington. The cities of Portland and South Portland in Maine fully legalized marijuana for both medical and recreational use.
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Smoking plant material is still illegal. Only legal to vapor, oil, and pill form for medical purposes. In 2013, the Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton signed the Minnesota Medical Marijuana Act into law. This law creates a patient registry under the Department of Health relating to the therapeutic use of medical cannabis.
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The federal government regulates drugs through the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) (21 U.S.C. § 811), which does not recognize the difference between medical and recreational use of marijuana. These laws are generally applied only against persons who possess, cultivate, or distribute large quantities of marijuana.
http://www.safeaccessnow.org/federal_marijuana_law
The 1937 Marijuana Tax Act, which regulated the drug by requiring dealers to pay a transfer tax, passed in the House after less than a half-hour of debate and received only cursory attention in the press. House members seem not to have known a great deal about the drug.
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