Legislation

By overwhelming margins, the legislature approved a bill to allow people with specific serious and terminal illnesses to possess small amounts of marijuana for medical purposes, if authorized by a physician.

Two bills promoted by the Affiliate in response to the government’s continuing “war on terrorism” died in committee.

A number of bills with civil liberties implications died in the General Assembly this session.

In order to give members a more in-depth sense of the Affiliate’s legislative work, we have picked one topic – open government – and briefly summarize how the ACLU helped shape a variety of pieces of legislation, both large and small, on the issue this session.