Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "As of April 2015, 23 states and Washington D.C. have legalized cannabis for medical use as voter or legislative driven initiatives bypassing the normal Food and Drug Administration testing for safety and efficacy. Seven states have pending legislation. There is considerable variation in medical marijuana laws from state to state.In the United States, there are important legal differences between medical cannabis at the federal and state levels. At the federal level, cannabis per se has been made criminal by implementation of the Controlled Substances Act, but as of 2009, new federal guidelines have been enacted. According to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, \"It will not be a priority to use federal resources to prosecute patients with serious illnesses or their caregivers who are complying with state laws onmedical marijuana, but we will not tolerate drug traffickers who hide behind claims of compliance with state law to mask activities that are clearly illegal.\"California passed an initiative to allow medical cannabis in 1996. In the intervening years, multiple states have passed similar initiatives. A January 2010 ABC News poll showed that 81 percent of Americans believed that medical cannabis should be legal in the United States. Most recently, in April 2015 Georgia became the 25th state to legalize medical marijuana not including DC; however the marijuana cannot be smoked.On December 16, 2014, Congress passed a law prohibiting federal agents from raiding growers of medical marijuana in states where it is legal."@en }
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- Medical_cannabis_in_the_United_States abstract "As of April 2015, 23 states and Washington D.C. have legalized cannabis for medical use as voter or legislative driven initiatives bypassing the normal Food and Drug Administration testing for safety and efficacy. Seven states have pending legislation. There is considerable variation in medical marijuana laws from state to state.In the United States, there are important legal differences between medical cannabis at the federal and state levels. At the federal level, cannabis per se has been made criminal by implementation of the Controlled Substances Act, but as of 2009, new federal guidelines have been enacted. According to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, \"It will not be a priority to use federal resources to prosecute patients with serious illnesses or their caregivers who are complying with state laws onmedical marijuana, but we will not tolerate drug traffickers who hide behind claims of compliance with state law to mask activities that are clearly illegal.\"California passed an initiative to allow medical cannabis in 1996. In the intervening years, multiple states have passed similar initiatives. A January 2010 ABC News poll showed that 81 percent of Americans believed that medical cannabis should be legal in the United States. Most recently, in April 2015 Georgia became the 25th state to legalize medical marijuana not including DC; however the marijuana cannot be smoked.On December 16, 2014, Congress passed a law prohibiting federal agents from raiding growers of medical marijuana in states where it is legal.".