Transportation Law
This is the legal amount of cannabis a person 21 or older can transport.
What is 28.5 grams of Cannabis?
National parks, post offices, airports, and other federal land or properties...
Where is it illegal to consume Cannabis?
If you’re under 18 and caught with up to the legal limit of cannabis, instead of jail you might face this kind of sanction.
Drug education/counseling or community service
This is the specific term for a business that legally sells cannabis products to consumers in a state where it is legalized.
What is a Cannabis dispensary?
This U.S. state became the first to legalize medical marijuana in 1996.
What is California?
When intending to operate a vehicle while possessing cannabis, this is the safest and most advisable location in the vehicle to store cannabis while you drive.
In the TRUNK!!
Consuming cannabis in the presence of minors is inhibited by these laws…
What are Child Endangerment Laws?
If the police find cannabis on you after a search that violated your Fourth Amendment rights, you could potentially file this kind of motion to exclude that evidence.
What is a motion to suppress?
This non-intoxicating compound in cannabis is often used in wellness products and is federally legal if derived from hemp. (pre-government shutdown/reopening)
What is Cannabidiol (CBD)?
This early American president grew hemp at Mount Vernon, as did many colonial farmers.
Who is George Washington?
If arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of cannabis, this is the only drug test method currently used to detect the amount of cannabis present in a person’s body.
What is a Blood Test?
Consuming cannabis within 1,000ft of a school, daycare, or youth center can lead to this penalty
What is a $250 fine?
If a person under 21 possesses any amount of cannabis (without medical allowances), under CA law this is typically charged as this.
What is an Infraction?
This US federal agency, responsible for enforcing drug laws, proposed a rule in 2024 to reclassify cannabis from Schedule I to the less restrictive Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA).
What is the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)?
In 2018, this North American country became the second in the world to legalize cannabis nationwide.
What is Canada?
Under CA law, someone possessing Cannabis with the intent to sell while bicycling, driving a motor vehicle, motorcycling, scootering, and even walking, can be charged with this.
What is a Cannabis Transportation Charge?
in California, you’re legally allowed to possess and consume cannabis in your home but it is not guaranteed for certain types of housing.
What is rented housing or government housing?
What are 4 common defenses to a possession of cannabis charge?
“It’s not mine,” “I didn’t know it was there,” “It’s not actually cannabis,” & “Illegal search!”
This is the federal law passed in 2018 that first removed hemp from the Controlled Substances Act, defining it as having no more than 0.3% Delta-9 THC by dry weight.
What is the Farm Bill?
This 1930s U.S. government campaign and film portrayed cannabis as dangerous and led to early criminalization.
What is Reefer Madness?
The “plus one” CA rule asserts that a 21+ driver possessing a legal amount of (sealed) cannabis while driving, which is visible to an officer, is not sufficient probable cause to search the vehicle because the officer needs…
An additional reasonable suspicion to conduct a vehicle search
To prevent legal consumption of Cannabis outside the work place from threatening a consumer's occupation, it's illegal for California employers to use the results of a hair or urine test that can detect cannabis in their hiring, firing, or penalizing decisions, EXCEPT for which kinds of jobs
federal employment (jobs requiring federal government background investigation screening or security clearance) and building/construction jobs
To be charged with unlawful Cannabis possession, the prosecution must prove these 5 things
1. you unlawfully possessed a controlled substance, 2. the controlled substance was cannabis, 3. you knew of this possession, 4. you knew cannabis is a controlled substance, 5. the quantity possessed was unlawful (+100pts per answer 1-5)
A US state that has legalized adult-use cannabis is often referred to as a "green" state, while a state where it is fully illegal is often referred to as this color.
What is red?
In the 1800s, this country created one of the first government-led commissions on cannabis, concluding it was less harmful than portrayed.
What is India? (The Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1893)