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From The Vault: This Man Is Seeing God | The Lost Bob Marley Interview (1976) From the Vault: This Man Is Seeing God
Bob Marley is the fastest-rising, highest-flying star in music today. Like most members of Jamaica’s Rastafarian religion, Bob smokes about a pound of marijuana, or “herb,” a week. High Times visited with Bob on his most recent American tour, and we found a lot of things to talk about.
High Times: Have you seen High Times magazine?
Marley: Hard Times? Ooo-eee! Oooeee! High Times!Dis supposed to ‘ave de bes’ high in de worl’. High Times; only de bes’.
High Times: Some Thai weed? [Pause]
High Times: Do you think herb will be legalized?
Marley: I don’ know if dis government will, but I know Christ’s government will. High Times: What about the Jamaican government? Mr. Manley, the Prime Minister?
Marley: Him? Legalize herb? Boy, I jus’ don’ know. It’s kinda legalized already. Me don’t t ink is really him, y’know. The realization of de truth. I don’t know if Michael Manley will be de one, or who. but y’know, everyt’ing will reveal right out to de flat truth.
High Times: Now when you go back to Jamaica as a big star, are you able to talk to different people and get some things done that you’d like to happen? Marley: Down dere? See, Jamaica jus’ run outa politics today . . . ya can’t have anything happening. But ya have people who will do t’ings for ya, like ya brethren, y’know. But when ya talk about de people in power, ya haffa be a politicsman. Me don’t deal wit’ no politics —me deal wit’ de truth.
High Times: Your audience here is mostly white. What do you think about that?
Marley: Well, I hear dat we not gettin’ through to black people. Well, me tell de R & B guy now, he must play dis record because I wan’ get to de people. We’re not talkin’ about no make me no superstar. Don’ ever make me no star. Me no wan’ be no star. But in de meantime, every knee shall bow and every tongue confess. Dat mean, de guy dat make de record, play for de people. Don’ put me in no bracket, y’know what I mean? So dat is wit’ de D.J. Him mus’ realized dis is reggae music. I mean, it’s music.
High Times: Do you consider yourself an outlaw?
Marley: Outlaw? No, no outlaw. Right in time.
High Times: You talk about dancing a lot in your songs. Do you see dancing as a form of communion with Jah?
Marley: When ya dance, ya just are Jah. Ya mus’ dance.
High Times: When was the first time you got high on herb?
Marley: As a yout’. Was in de Sixties. High Times: What was the best weed you ever smoked?
Marley: One time I was in Jamaica, was doin’ a show, an’ a man come up to me, and he gave me a spliff. Now, das de bes’ herb I ever smoke. Yeah, man! Neva get an extra herb like dat again! No, no, no. Just like one tree in de earth, y’know? High Times: Just one tree?
Marley: Jus’ one tree. Sometimes ya just find a tree. It lamb’s bread.
High Times: What’s lamb’s bread? Marley: De ability what de herb ’ave ya call lamb’s bread. Some a dem ya call Bethlehem’s bread. Dat is when ya really get good herb, y’know what I mean? High Times: Well, the Jamaican that’s coming into the States now is not as good as it was.
Marley: Ya don’ get no good herb because too much sell in Jamaica. And ya find alia people who plant herb fertilize it, so nobody really take care of de herb like first time. Ya use fertilizer, it come quick. Dem fertilize it an’ cut it before time.
High Times: Do you guys find it hard to get good herb?
Marley: Me fin’ it hard to get in England.
High Times: In England they always mix it with tobacco. It’s really foul. Marley: Yeah, man. It’s time to let de people get good herbs an’ smoke. Government’s a joke. All dey wan’ is ya smoke cigarettes and cigar. Some cigar wickeder den herb. Yeah, man, ya can’t smoke cigar. Smoke herb. Some big cigar me see man wit’, God bless! Me tell him must smoke herb. Ya see, de people come together because is not de buildin’, is not de buildin’ me wanna see, me wanna see a nice level piece of green grass. Don’ wanna haffa go in no elevator, gwan upstairs and talk wit’ some people in a square place. Me wanna go out in a earth, man. Righteousness cover de earth like water cover de sea. Where I gwan is, me don’ have time to be in building all de while, when de miracles happening all de while outside. For some time miracles happen outta de sky. Is good for ya to see it, y’know. Among some green trees, yes man! I mean, y a ‘ave green trees in America.
High Times: Have you ever tried acid?
Marley: Me hear’bout people who do it. No, me meet people who do it, an’ dem tell me. And when dem tell me, I travel to de same place. I mean, when a guy explain it an’ ya listen, ya can go all de way up to de same place as him.
High Times: Who told you about it? Marley: Well, one mustn’t call people names, y’know. What keepeth its mouth, keepeth its life.
High Times: Do you think herb takes you to the same place?
Marley: I feel like ya ’ave thousands of different types of herb. If when ya plant it, if ya meditation not high, it don’t come like de right type of herb.
High Times: It’s very hard to find the right type of herb.
Marley: Yeah, man.
High Times: One of the reasons we’re into this is to try to find it.
Marley: Well, ya see, dat herb, ya can’t find dat herb.
High Times: Where is it?
Marley: Y’know what happen to dat herb? I tell ya where dat herb go now. Just like ya ‘ave some apple trees, an’ dis year something happen to dat apple tree dere, an’ dis year dat tree taste better den dat tree. Ya find dat a seed planted de right day, de right minute, den dere’s tree, ya find it, nobody plant it. A seed show, an’ it grow, an’ ya start nurse it, an’ it become the best tree. Well, ya can get plenty a dat —de best herb dere. Jus’ one tree, sometime a guy have. Ya might pass bye an’ get a spliff. Ya say, “Where ya get dis?” Him say, “Dis come from St. Ann.” So ya go down to St. Ann’s an’ ya don’t find it again.
High Times: Your new album cover and the promotional sacks are burlap. Why?
Marley: We call dis a crocus bag. It has roots material, sackcloth. Ya associate wit’ de poor man. If ya see a man walkin’ down de street wit’ dis, y’know ’es really poor, ’es a sufferer.
High Times: Like sackcloth and ashes?
Marley: Yeah, but ya see, de t’ing is, de first shall be de las’ and de las first. Is jus’ like de Rastaman. Like Christ. Why did de whole worl’ crucify? Him find, say in dis time de Rastaman is de only truth. So even de crocus bag stand out!
High Times: So this is how you educate Americans?
Marley: Yeah, man!
High Times: Who in Jamaica wants the American DEA down there?
Marley: What is DEA?
High Times: The Drug Enforcement Administration, the top nares in the L.S. They’re the ones that donate the helicopters and defoliants and things to countries like Jamaica. They try to squash the grass-smuggling trade. They send field agents to Mexico, Colombia, and Jamaica. We’ve been told that there are quite a few agents down there going around with the Jamaican police. Do you have any opinion as to why they’re doing it, or who in Jamaica wants them down there?
Marley: Jamaica and America ’ave a deal. Ya mean, why would Jamaica invite a t’ing like dat? I tell y a, man, is in Jamaica interest. Same system, same people who control America. I don’ know if is President Ford or whoever de president is. But what I know—de same force what control de system look de same in my eye. I t’ink de same force control Jamaica dat control all dem type a t’ings, y’know. I t’ink dem devil. For de devil ’ave a fight against de rights, y’know.
High Times: Manley is a socialist. Isn’t he changing things?
Marley: Manley supposed to be a socialist. See, I don’t have nuttin’ ta say ’bout Manley, Manley personal self, man to man. But me no unnerstan’, me no educated to know about big words like democratic socialism. Do it, let me see it, don’t tell me ’bout it. Live de life.
High Times: What about Seaga, the capitalist who’s running against Manley?
Marley: Ya ’ave two powers in Jamaica. One name Labor Party, an’ one named PNP [People’s National Party, Manley’s ruling party]. An’ every year now dis one [the PNP] win. Well now, I like to give de guy a chance, de one who win. I find it look like before him can get papers together, is votin’ time again! So somebody set de trap fa dem, for before him can really check out Jamaica, an’ find out how much Jamaica owe America or Jamaica owe Canada. I mean, what is de backside doin’?
High Times: Didn’t Manley use a reggae song for his campaign?
Marley: Yeah, “Better Must Come.” One t’ing is, ya can’t blame Michael Manley, ya can’t blame dem guys. Da t’ing is, de system set dat dey maintain de power. High Times : Who sets the system ? Marley: De system been set! Manley come, comes ta someone. Dat someone, dere was someone before dat, someone cornin’ from where it was cornin’ from in England. It cornin’ down from England now. I don’t know how financial dem set up, how much money Jamaica borrow from England, or what kinda plan Jamaica an’ England ’ave, but I know Jamaica owe money to certain people. And if de politician run for politics an jus’ wanna run for politics and don’t unnerstand de runnings a all de t’ings a’ gonna face him, den he gonna run away from de system, an’ if ya run from de system, de people kill you! Y’unnerstan’?
Dat is when ya dare to go up ’gainst God, fight ’gainst God. If ya come to do somet’ing, ya do it. But if ya come to do something an’ ya don’t do it, ya fighting ’gainst God. An’ all de people ya trick all de while. So where’s de system settin’ from? I don’ know de business deal dem have, but dey can’t just look upon Jamaica an’ say, “All right Jamaica, we give ya some a dis an’ some a dat. All right Jamaica, we’re withdrawin’ from ya,” or whatever. Because either you swing wit’ capitalism, or ya go wit de other “ism”— socialism. Tell ’em ’bout some more “isms.” See, ya govern by dis “ism” or dat “ism.” We gotta trim it in right dere; no middle way. Even if ya go upon dis “ism,” him don’ wanna lose friendship wit’ America. Let me tell y a something—de same situation dat put de people in gonna catch ’em. Devil trick devil. I find now people want Africa. But if America help Africa, I don’ even want dat neither. But what de people want is Africa.
High Times: They want to go back? Marley: Forward. Yeah, man. I mean, we love Jamaica, an’ we love de earth. But dere’s a part a de eart’ where it need plenty help—Africa.
High Times: Would you be willing to get a big boat and take people back and forth?
Marley: No, dat is not de t’ing. Dat is not de t’ing. Y’see, when Marcus Garvey come, he have de Blackstar Liner. Dat is not de problem. De problem is, ya gotta get de people’s heads togetha. Why ya go to Africa? No sinner shall enter dere. Dat’s why Africa become a place dat ya don’ want to be like ‘ere. Me don’ wanna talk ’bout Africa too much, but I love to talk ’bout Africa. Yeah, because Africa is my land. Just like de Englishmen ’ave England an’ de Indians ‘ave India. Africa!
[Bob points to himself] It should be a t’ing where everybody help me go home, because dem supposed to be my brother. “But until dat day when de African continent will know peace …” I don’ unnerstan’ why when people talk about Africa dey wanna push Africa to one side. Now we know dat as de children of God, not as de children of America or as de children of Jamaica, but as de children of God, we know dat Africa need help. Poverty, y’know, it’s not dat. De type a help Africa need is unity. Any time ya say Africa, is unity. If ya can’t cite Africa, ya still in Babylon. Don’ care who — anytime ya cite Africa, ya in unity. Until dat day, no have no peace Rasta! Yeah. But y’know when people talk ’bout Africa, dey talk like ya can’t go dere, is a jungle, y’know what I mean? Yeah.
High Times: Have you been to Africa?
Marley: I’m going dere, yeah.
High Times: Soon?
Marley: Yeah, man. Africa teach all over de earth. Civilization, everywhere, every corner of de earth is African civilization. Now, a man hafta know himself. Ya can’t tell me he’s American or he’s Jamaican or wherever he is. We know Noah had three sons. De las’ destruction t’ing, three son him have: Ham, Shem and Japhet. De three brothers, three colors. Dat mean, I don’t know if I can tell a white man him come, say, live in Africa. My duty is to talk to de people who want to hear, who listen. If dey ask me a question, dey want to learn an’ I ’ave somet’ing I can tell, den Jah will give me de inspiration to answer it. De whole earth start in Africa, de whole creation. But yet de people today come say, “Boy, de people dem starve in Africa.” Money control whole lotta t’ings. But y’know, dem t’ings jus’ reveal demselves out to de youth. Because if I don’ unnerstand, my son will because de truth is always dere. Den ya realize dere’s somet’ing going on about de place. Go up in a White House, go check it out an’ find out de president don’ even know. Go check it again. Maybe it end up inna other room. Maybe some big Catholic guy control. Ya don’ know where it end up, y’know.
High Times: Huh?
Marley: Ya don’t know. [He laughs.] It might end up here, y’unnerstan? Yeah? So, ya have to be careful —de whole t’ing is truth.
High Times: What was that?
Marley: Be careful, y’know?
High Times: Be careful? Yeah.
Marley: Whole t’ing is truth.
High Times: Amen.
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Today My Cannabis Brand Launches In West Virginia, Where I Spent Years Behind Bars For Growing Medical Marijuana (Op-Ed)
“Legalization is progress, but we won’t be satisfied until every cannabis prisoner is set free.”
By Ryan Basore, Redemption Cannabis and The Redemption Foundation
A little over a decade ago, I was sitting in a federal prison in Morgantown, West Virginia, serving time for growing medical cannabis in compliance with Michigan’s state law. I wasn’t a trafficker. I wasn’t running guns or laundering money. I was a state-licensed caregiver using cannabis to help people with debilitating conditions. Then I became one of the thousands targeted during a time when the federal government treated medical cannabis providers like public enemies.
Today—July 11—my cannabis brand launches in the same town in which I spent years behind bars for growing medical cannabis.
As traumatic as that experience was, I knew I couldn’t let it deter me from doing what’s right. That’s what led me to found Redemption Cannabis, one of Michigan’s top-selling cannabis brands and one that supports those still serving time for nonviolent cannabis offenses.
Together with partners like Trulieve and Altvm, we provide cannabis products to patients and consumers across states like Michigan, Maryland, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and now West Virginia, where I once wore prison tans. It’s a redemption story I’m proud of, but it’s also a privilege that too many others have been denied.
Despite widespread legalization across a majority of U.S. states, many in the U.S. remain incarcerated for cannabis offenses. Their “crime”? Often the same actions that built today’s billion-dollar cannabis industry. Legalization has crept forward, but justice has not.
I launched the Redemption Foundation in 2019 to change that. Through our programs, we’ve helped fund over 2,000 free expungements and provided direct financial support to federal cannabis prisoners across the country.
One of our core efforts is our commissary program, which puts up to $300 a month, the maximum allowed, on the books of people incarcerated for non-violent cannabis offenses. For someone earning $14 a month in prison wages, that support isn’t just helpful. It’s life-changing.
We also partner with organizations like the Weldon Project’s Mission Green and the Last Prisoner Project to expand our reach and impact. The goal isn’t just release, it’s restoration. That means helping people return to their communities, access housing, find jobs and reclaim their dignity.
But here’s the hard truth: Unless federal law changes, we will keep seeing these contradictions. The Controlled Substances Act still classifies cannabis as a Schedule I drug, a substance with high risk for abuse with no currently accepted medical use. Until that changes, people will keep getting sentenced, even as legalization spreads.
Even expungement isn’t enough. In many states, it isn’t automatic. People need attorneys, paperwork, court appearances and other resources that are rarely made accessible to them just to be able to live a normal life. They struggle to find work, obtain housing or move on with their lives. Meanwhile, a lucrative industry has emerged around cannabis, the foundations of which were put in place by pioneers who continue to suffer behind bars or remain locked out of the legal industry.
Those of us who now enjoy the ability to consume and profit from legal cannabis owe our freedom to the people who took risks when it wasn’t safe or legal to do so. We have to recognize that our prosperity is a result of their sacrifice.
That’s why 10 percent of all Redemption Cannabis licensing revenue goes to supporting those still incarcerated and to securing their release. When you buy our products, you’re not just consuming, you’re contributing to the pursuit of justice.
Redemption isn’t just our brand name. It’s our mission.
Legalization is progress, but we won’t be satisfied until every cannabis prisoner is set free.
Ryan Basore is the founder of Redemption Cannabis and the Redemption Foundation, which supports cannabis prisoners and fights for restorative justice in the cannabis industry. He previously served a federal sentence for medical marijuana cultivation in Michigan.
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Texas Governor Calls Hemp Products ‘Lawful Agricultural Commodity’ in Special Session Notice
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott doubled down on his stance that hemp-derived products should be regulated, not banned, in the Lone Star State.
Abbott included a pair of hemp-related proposals in his July 9 proclamation submitted to Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson’s office, calling for a special legislative session to convene at noon on July 21 in Austin.
The chief executive outlined 18 pieces of legislation for lawmakers to consider, from improving early warning systems and other preparedness infrastructure in flood-prone areas to revising the state’s congressional redistricting plan—a move that could protect Republicans’ slim majority in the U.S. House come the 2026 midterm election.
Abbott also called for legislation on hemp proposals that he said would:
- Make it a crime to provide hemp-derived products to children under 21 years of age; and
- Comprehensively regulate hemp-derived products, including limiting potency, restricting synthetically modified compounds, and establishing enforcement mechanisms, all without banning a lawful agricultural commodity.
The July 9 proclamation comes after the governor vetoed Senate Bill 3 on June 22. The legislation would have banned consumable hemp products containing quantifiable amounts of THC or other intoxicating cannabinoids. It was backed by 105 of 108 Republicans in the state’s GOP-controlled Legislature.
In his June 22 veto proclamation, Abbott said S.B. 3 collides with federal law and would likely face a lengthy legal battle before the state could implement and enforce a ban, hindering rather than solving “public safety” issues that lawmakers hope to contain.
“There are many bad actors who have abused the authority granted to them by both the federal government and the state of Texas,” the governor wrote. “But there are also many Texans conducting business responsibly, who invested millions of dollars planting fields or opening up retail stores in reliance on laws making hemp a lawful product to ‘be sold at retail or otherwise introduced into commerce.’”
While Abbott may be the most powerful elected official in Texas, he’s up against a potential showdown with Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, a fellow Republican who championed S.B. 3 as the presiding officer in the state’s Senate. Following Abbott’s veto, Patrick accused the governor of wanting to “legalize recreational marijuana.”
“This is a fight that didn’t need to be,” Patrick said during a June 23 press conference, when he picked apart the governor’s veto proclamation.
On June 24, two days after Abbott’s veto, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit vacated a preliminary injunction that had blocked neighboring Arkansas from implementing a hemp product ban that Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed into law two years earlier.
While the Eighth Circuit doesn’t encompass Texas, Patrick used that decision as leverage to push back against the governor’s veto.
“It won’t be long before 8,000 smoke and vape shops will be out of business in Texas,” Patrick wrote on X following the circuit court decision. “All we have to do is pass S.B. 3, just like we passed during the regular session.”
Despite the gubernatorial dispute ahead of the special session, the legislative branch will be the ultimate decider on whether to regulate or ban hemp in what has had a $10.3 billion economic impact for the state, employing some 50,000 workers, according to Whitney Economics.
Notably, Texas House members already supported an outright ban on intoxicating hemp products during the regular session on May 21, when they voted, 86-53, to align their version of S.B. 3 with the upper chamber’s version instead of adopting a committee substitute bill that Rep. Ken King, R-Canadian, crafted as the chair of the State Affairs Committee.
King’s substitute would have tightly regulated hemp-derived products instead of banning them.
“Committee substitute to Senate Bill 3 came as a counter option to an outright ban,” King said May 21 on the House floor. “Some of you are for a ban. Many of you aren’t. And that’s the reason we have a choice. How you vote on this amendment [to return the House version to a ban] is completely up to you. I will be voting no on the amendment. And the reason is, I read about the 1920s. I don’t think prohibition worked in 1920; I don’t think it’s going to work in [the] 2020s.”
Ultimately, the Texas House rejected the State Affairs Committee’s alternative bill and then supported S.B. 3’s prohibition language in a 95-44 vote to send the legislation to Abbott’s desk.
While King couldn’t sway his colleagues in the House to support regulation over prohibition, Abbott’s clout as governor remains to be seen in the upcoming special session.
In his June 22 veto message, Abbott offered a sample of 19 “potential” regulations for lawmakers to consider:
- Selling or providing a THC product to a minor must be punishable as a crime;
- Sales must be prohibited near schools, churches, parks, playgrounds and other areas frequented by children;
- Packaging must be child-resistant, tamper-evident, and resealable;
- Products must not be made, packaged, or marketed in a manner attractive to children;
- Any store selling these products must have a permit and restrict access to anyone under the age of 21, with strict penalties for any retailer that fails to comply;
- Products containing THC may not contain other psychoactive substances (e.g., alcohol, tobacco, kratom);
- Testing must be required at every phase of production and manufacturing, including for both plants and derivative consumable products;
- Manufacturing and processing facilities must be subject to permitting and food safety rules;
- Permit and registration fees must suffice to support robust enforcement and testing by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, in partnership with other state agencies;
- An operator’s permit and warning/danger signs must be posted at any store selling these products;
- Sales must be limited to the hours between 10 a.m. and 9 p.m., and prohibited on Sunday;
- The amount of THC permissible in each product must be restricted, and an individual may make only a limited number of purchases in a given period of time;
- Labels must include a surgeon general-style warning, a clear disclosure of all ingredients, including the THC content, and a scannable barcode or QR code linking to test results;
- Fraudulently creating or displaying manifests or lab results must be punishable as felony offenses;
- Public consumption, consumption on the premises of any store that sells these products, and possession of an open container in a vehicle must be punishable as crimes;
- The attorney general, district attorneys and county attorneys must have the authority to pursue violations under the Deceptive Trade Practices Act;
- Local governments must have the option to prohibit or limit stores selling these products;
- Excise taxes must be assessed on these products to fund oversight and enforcement; and
- Additional funding must be provided to ensure law enforcement has sufficient resources to vigorously enforce restrictions.
“Passing a law is not the same thing as actually solving a problem,” Abbott wrote. “Texas needs a bill that is enforceable and will make our communities safer today, rather than years from now.”
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A Washington State government working group is renewing its call for officials to take steps toward ensuring “a regulated, tested supply of controlled substances to individuals at risk of drug overdoses,” pointing to a number of policy options developed in recent years.
Members said in a report that the goals of the safe supply reform are to ensure substances are as safe as possible to consume and to minimize peripheral harms from drug criminalization and incarceration. Changes would also aim to reduce theft, petty crime and syringe litter often associated with illicit drug activity.
The work group presented its safe supply recommendations at a meeting last month, according to The Center Square, but the proposal itself is not new. The state Substance Use Recovery Services Advisory Committee (SURSAC), created through a 2021 law, recommended the following year that lawmakers decriminalize the possession of controlled substances, and the body “has expressed broad support to establish a system to provide safe supply services,” the recommendation report notes.
Four different safe supply frameworks were recommended at 2022 SURSAC special meeting, including prescription and supervised consumption, prescription and self-administration, a dispensary model and a community-based “buyer’s club.”
SURSAC / Washington State Health Care Authority
Republican lawmaker Rep. Travis Couture told The Center Square that he opposes the state taking a role in the safe supply effort, adding that SURSAC seems uninterested in considering other approaches.
“They only want to double down on the failures,” he said, “and what we’re talking about here is taxpayer-funded drug dealing, where the state would hand out heroin, fentanyl and meth on our dime.”
“That’s not treatment,” Couture added, “that’s surrender.”
SURSAC, for its part, wants to see a clinical trial by researchers and a safe supply pilot program enacted by lawmakers.
A subset of Democratic lawmakers did briefly consider the decriminalization of simple drug possession following a 2021 state Supreme Court ruling that struck down Washington’s possession law as unconstitutional. Instead, the legislature chose to recriminalize possession as a lesser charge. And in years since, lawmakers have been more hesitant to advance sweeping reforms such as decriminalization.
As of earlier this year, officials across the state were also still making uneven progress on requirements to vacate thousands of past criminal convictions following the Supreme Court ruling.
In May, a cut to a state budget bill eliminated about $5 million to support legal aid groups working on the clearance effort.
“It’s a gut punch,” Camerina Zorrozua, the legal director and co-founder of The Way to Justice, a nonprofit legal aid organization based in Spokane that has relied on the funding since 2021, told InvestigateWest at the time. “The rug was just pulled out from under us.”
Earlier this year, state Democrats once again also gave up on a plan that would have legalized home cultivation of marijuana for personal use, opting instead to keep the conduct classified as a felony.
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If enacted law, HB 1449, from Rep. Shelley Kloba, would have allowed adults 21 and older to grow up to six cannabis plants at home for personal use, with households capped at 15 plants regardless of how many adults reside on the premises. People could also lawfully keep the marijuana produced by those plants despite the state’s existing one-ounce limit on possession.
Kloba and other supportive lawmakers have worked for nearly a decade to pass a law allowing adults to grow a small number of cannabis plants for their own use, but each year, other lawmakers and executive agencies have stood in the way of the proposal.
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