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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 Wyoming committee strips felony penalty from marijuana edibles bill 🌿Wyoming committee strips felony penalty from marijuana edibles bill
A Wyoming legislative committee on Thursday moved to make possession of marijuana brownies and other foods and beverages containing the drug a misdemeanor.
The Wyoming Senate earlier this week called for making it a felony to possess more than three ounces of food or drink containing marijuana or its active ingredients.
However, the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday stripped out the felony language, leaving the bill instead with a system of increasingly stiff misdemeanor penalties for repeated convictions of possessing food or beverages containing THC, the active compound in marijuana.
The full House still must act on the bill before a conference committee could try to resolve any differences between the House and Senate versions.
Wyoming has seen a spike in possession of marijuana edibles and beverages since Colorado legalized recreational marijuana use in 2014. Neighboring Montana allows medical use of marijuana.
District Judge Steven Sharpe of Cheyenne last...
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