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News-Miner opinion: As expected, the Fairbanks North Star Borough's ordinances governing the now-legal marijuana industry have proved to be an incomplete work. Two ordinances introduced at Thursday night's Borough Assembly meeting propose some important revisions to the borough's marijuana...

New York Assembly members push forward plan to redress discriminatory harms of cannabis prohibition. The New York State Assembly passed a bill Thursday, June 16, that will seal criminal records of people who have been arrested for simple marijuana possession. The bipartisan vote, at 99 in...

Trenton, New Jersey - The Assembly on Thursday passed legislation to allow qualified New Jersey residents with post-traumatic stress disorder to get medical marijuana treatment. The Democrat-led Assembly voted 55-14, with seven abstentions, sending the bill to the Senate for consideration...

The UN General Assembly will hold a Special Session (UNGASS) on drugs in 2016. This Special Session will be an important milestone in achieving the goals set in the policy document of 2009 "Political Declaration and Plan of Action on International Cooperation towards an Integrated and Balanced...

Anchorage voters will get the chance to decide whether or not to tax cannabis in the months ahead. Both law-makers and industry advocates support the proposed tax, but disagreements over regulation continue to grow. Discussion of a proposed plan to tax retail sales of cannabis products...