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The Long Beach City Council, normally a harmonious group, has become fractured over how to deal with medical marijuana in the city. It remains to be seen how the divisiveness on this issue will ultimately affect neighborhoods and businesses. Last week's debate on medpot was laced with...

Polling this week reiterates that Arkansans are ready for the medical use of marijuana to become public policy in Arkansas. A Talk Business & Politics/Hendrix College survey shows a comfortable lead (58 percent to 34 percent) for such a measure. The problem for advocates for allowing patients'...

Polling this week reiterates that Arkansans are ready for the medical use of marijuana to become public policy in Arkansas. A Talk Business & Politics/Hendrix College survey shows a comfortable lead (58 percent to 34 percent) for such a measure. The problem for advocates for allowing patients'...

Little Rock, Arkansas - Tensions are high over two competing medical marijuana proposals in Arkansas. The two medical marijuana proposals in Arkansas are The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment of 2016 and the Arkansas Medical Cannabis Act. Ryan Denham, deputy director for the Act, worries...

Little Rock, Arkansas - Tensions are high over two competing medical marijuana proposals in Arkansas. The two medical marijuana proposals in Arkansas are The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment of 2016 and the Arkansas Medical Cannabis Act. Ryan Denham, deputy director for the Act, worries...

Portland, Maine - Maine residents who vote "yes on 1" this November will legalize marijuana use and possession for those at least 21 years old. The state has randomly ordered this fall's ballot questions: following marijuana legalization is a new education tax, background checks for gun sales...

Boston - Supporters of a proposal that could make Massachusetts the fifth U.S. state to legalize the recreational use of marijuana said they met a Wednesday deadline to submit voter signatures to qualify for the November ballot. Sponsors of three other proposed ballot questions also said they...

It appears the petition-drive initiative to allow medical marijuana dispensaries in Long Beach will have a clear field on the November ballot, at least in terms of a local alternative. Third District Councilwoman Suzie Price got enough support to put the question of a competing measure on...

It appears the petition-drive initiative to allow medical marijuana dispensaries in Long Beach will have a clear field on the November ballot, at least in terms of a local alternative. Third District Councilwoman Suzie Price got enough support to put the question of a competing measure on...

A group working to put a recreational marijuana legalization initiative before Massachusetts voters this November says it has collected more than double the signatures needed to appear on the ballot, as reported by the Associated Press. The Massachusetts Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like...

Supporters of one of three marijuana-legalization proposals submitted more than 117,000 signatures Monday to Secretary of State Mark Martin, pleading that their efforts to legalize the drug will fail if multiple measures make the November ballot. Immediately afterwards at the State Capitol...

Supporters of one of three marijuana-legalization proposals submitted more than 117,000 signatures Monday to Secretary of State Mark Martin, pleading that their efforts to legalize the drug will fail if multiple measures make the November ballot. Immediately afterwards at the State Capitol...

Fullerton - Fullerton leaders are considering a November ballot measure that could make the city one of the county's first to legalize the cultivation of medical marijuana. The City Council on Tuesday is looking at joining Laguna Beach and Costa Mesa with ballot measures permitting medical...

Fullerton - Fullerton leaders are considering a November ballot measure that could make the city one of the county's first to legalize the cultivation of medical marijuana. The City Council on Tuesday is looking at joining Laguna Beach and Costa Mesa with ballot measures permitting medical...

Little Rock, Arkansas - A group pushing to legalize medical marijuana in Arkansas will submit more than 110,000 signatures for its ballot initiative on Monday, officials say. Arkansans for Compassionate Care made the announcement on Friday. "Over the past two years, we've talked to tens...

Little Rock, Arkansas - A group pushing to legalize medical marijuana in Arkansas will submit more than 110,000 signatures for its ballot initiative on Monday, officials say. Arkansans for Compassionate Care made the announcement on Friday. "Over the past two years, we've talked to tens...

The Marijuana Businesses Access to Banking Act (S.1726 and H.R.2076) has received bipartisan support in both chambers. The U.S. Department of Justice has said it wouldn't spend time prosecuting financial service companies that work with legal marijuana businesses as long as it following...

Growing Pueblo's Future, a group fighting a possible dismantling of the recreation cannabis industry in Pueblo County, has raised $95,452 for the effort, according to the Colorado Secretary of State's campaign finance site. The group has spent $24,423 through the June 7 filing date, and had...

It is fully expected that Californians will be able to cast their vote this November on a ballot measure that will permit recreational marijuana use in the state. On Tuesday, June 14, the Perris City Council saw to it that the voters of that city will get a say in how dispensaries in the city...

The group that's trying to legalize marijuana in Michigan is telling the state: See you in court. And the outcome of the challenge could have a huge impact on politics, law-making, and future elections in Michigan. Petition campaigns The group MI Legalize is trying to gather enough...