One of the more notable demographics to voice support for the policy change was Republicans, 54 percent of whom said they back legalization.
Fifty-three percent of respondents said they live in a state where marijuana is legal, compared to 38 percent who said they didn’t.
A key House committee approved a legalization bill in September, and Senate leaders are also pushing a plan to end federal cannabis prohibition.
Yet, despite the solid public support for reform, particularly among Democrats, President Joe Biden continues to oppose adult-use legalization.
Last year, the firm also published a survey finding that about 70 percent of Americans view smoking cannabis to be a morally acceptable activity.
Witnesses testified in court on Friday that was because the update was uploaded to a state website as a non-searchable image, making it impossible for industry operators and advocates to be alerted to its existence through their usual means of monitoring policy activity.
The novelty of delta-8 products has left legal loopholes, which is likely why DSHS moved to broadly prohibit products with more than 0.3 percent of any type of THC in the first place.
At the federal level, delta-8 THC has also captured the attention of agencies like the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Hemp industry advocates have also touted recent comments from Drug Enforcement Administration representatives who’ve responded to inquiries about delta-8 THC.
An appeals court had previously modified a prior injunction and determined that regulators couldn’t enforce a ban on the sales component of the smokable hemp market.
Just to the north of San Marcos, a separate campaign attempted to put cannabis decriminalization on Austin’s ballot this November, but activists have since shifted their strategy toward putting the measure in front of voters on the May 2022 ballot.
There is no statewide, citizen-led initiative process that would enable advocates to put an issue like decriminalization or legalization on the Texas ballot.
A strong majority of Texans back even broader reform, according to recent polling.
But in August, the U.S.
In the background, the state Supreme Court is continuing to consider a review of the constitutionality of an earlier cannabis legalization initiative that voters approved in 2020 but which was later challenged with a lawsuit funded by the administration of Gov.
Meanwhile, lawmakers have been working to advance cannabis reform legislation that they want the legislature to take up at the start of the 2022 session.
As drafted, the current version of the legislation would allow adults 21 and older to purchase and possess up to an ounce of cannabis.
Unlike the legalization initiatives that South Dakota voters approved last year, the draft bill would not provide a home grow option for adult consumers.
“The first is that the South Dakota Supreme Court upholds or partially upholds Amendment A,” he said, referring to last year’s voter initiative.
The move comes as Democratic lawmakers in Congress work to advance several pieces of marijuana legislation, including a federal legalization bill that cleared the House Judiciary Committee in September.
“Americans support legalized marijuana, and now Congress is catching up,” Sen.
In August, the Senate passed its own version of the legislation, which contained substantively identical marijuana language, in August.
Since its initial introduction last year, some steps have been taken to resolve marijuana research issues.
That marks a significant development—and one of the first cannabis-related moves to come out of the Biden administration.
Days later, the Senate passed a similar bill but nothing ended up getting to the president’s desk by the end of the last Congress.