House Bill 2067: HB 2067 and its companion bill in the Senate (SB 2547) seek to amend existing limits regarding the amount of cannabis patients may legally possess and grow, prevent employers and landlords from discriminating against medical cannabis patients, and impose legal liability on law enforcement officials who improperly seize cannabis from state-authorized patients.

House Bill 2673: HB 2673 seeks to protect those medical marijuana patients in the public workforce who may be subjected to random  drug testing. Under current law, state-authorized patients may be penalized or even terminated by their employer for their off-the-job use of medical cannabis. Passage of HB 2673 would grant these patients the same legal protections already afforded to employees prescribed other prescription medications — including oral THC (aka Marinol) — and would not jeopardize on-the-job safety or performance.

House Bill 2677: HB 2677 seeks to limit the criminal prosecution of adults who possess small amounts of cannabis in the privacy of their own home. Specifically, this bill would encourage local police to establish a policy that sets private adult marijuana offenses as the “lowest priority for investigation, citation, and arrest.”  Similar ‘deprioritization’ policies have been enacted in several metropolitan areas — including Oakland, California and Seattle, Washington — and the results have been overwhelmingly positive.

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