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After tepid support and a procedural snafu forced House leadership to pull the rewrite of the marijuana legalization law from consideration this week, the Marijuana Policy Committee is planning to release a redrafted version of the legislation Monday with debate expected in the House on...

Today a bipartisan group of senators plans to introduce a new version of the CARERS Act, which aims to protect medical use of marijuana in the 29 states that allow it. Among other things, the bill would provide a more permanent shield from prosecution and forfeiture than the Rohrabacher/Farr...

Massachusetts marijuana advocates were enraged on Wednesday, saying taxes on Bay State marijuana could skyrocket to 56 percent under a State House plan to overhaul the legalization law approved by voters. Hours later, state House Speaker Robert DeLeo said lawmakers will not vote on the bill...

Beacon Hill leaders have abruptly canceled tomorrow's anticipated vote to revamp the state's legalized marijuana law amid what House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo called "procedural" issues and unspecified concerns over the bill's language. The bill faced blistering criticism from legalized pot...

In a sweeping rewrite of the voter-passed marijuana legalization measure, House leaders will advance a bill Wednesday that would more than double the total tax on recreational pot and give municipal officials – instead of local voters – the power to ban cannabis shops and farms. The...

The governor of Vermont has expanded medical marijuana there, weeks after vetoing a bill that would have legalized recreational marijuana. Governor Phil Scott, a Republican, signed a bill that adds Parkinson's disease, Crohn's disease and post-traumatic stress disorder to the list of...

Massachusetts House lawmakers are expected to take up a bill this week that would change the marijuana law endorsed by voters last November. A Massachusetts House source told MassLive.com that House lawmakers are aiming for a Thursday vote. The State House News Service, an independent wire...

The Florida Legislature's passage of a bill to enact the state's constitutional amendment expanding the use of medical marijuana has ended one chapter in the battle over setting up regulations for the nascent industry. But pro-pot supporters say it doesn't go far enough. Once Gov. Rick Scott...

Gov. Phil Scott signed into law a bill that expands Vermont's medical marijuana system. The legislation, S.16, expands the list of conditions that qualify for the medical marijuana registry to include Parkinson's disease, Crohn's disease and post-traumatic stress disorder, as of July 1...

Florida Gov. Rick Scott said he "absolutely" intends to sign the medical marijuana bill passed Friday by the state Legislature. After the original legislation fell apart on the final day of the regular session last month, the chambers approved the bill during the final day of the special...

Marijuana reform advocates say there was unprecedented, bipartisan support for their efforts in this year's legislative session, but it still wasn't enough to change state law. House Bill 2107, authored by state Rep. Eddie Lucio III, D-Brownsville, would have given safe access to medical...

On June 8, Gov. Phil Scott signed Senate Bill 16 to expand Vermont's list of qualifying conditions for the state's medical cannabis program. The bill adds Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Parkinson's disease and Crohn's disease to the list of acceptable conditions. SB-16 authorizes one...

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval has recently signed into law Senate Bill 396, which will allow the cultivation of industrial hemp for commercial purposes. The bill would also authorize the production of agricultural hemp seed in the state. The law's approval meant that Nevada has nullified a federal...

Legislation to implement voter-approved medical marijuana is moving forward as the House and Senate versions of the bill passed through their final committee stops Thursday. The new version of the bill includes a number of changes to licensing for growers and the number of dispensaries...

Gov. John Hickenlooper has sent a bill to the secretary of state without his signature, pointing out that one accidental word in the bill negatively impacts its original purpose. HB 17-1367 has to do with marijuana research authorization in Colorado. In a letter addressed to the Colorado...

With a bill altering the voter-approved legal marijuana law expected by the end of the month, marijuana activists held a rally on the Statehouse steps Wednesday to tell lawmakers to leave the law as it is. For more than 20 years, the Massachusetts Cannabis Reform Coalition and the local...

Medical marijuana growers would be able to sell up to 20 pounds of their crop into Oregon's recreational market under a bill that has advanced in the Legislature. House Bill 2198 is another stab by lawmakers at reshaping Oregon's older but troubled medical marijuana program so it can coexist...

The debate over recreational marijuana for adults raged in the House for 90 minutes Tuesday afternoon into the evening, before it was pulled from a stage-managed debate. Democratic House leaders allowed proponents the time to bring the issue to public discussion, as a possible first step...

Vermont's lawmakers have been dealing with pot for years now — every legislative session in recent memory has had some marijuana bill on the docket. And while expansions to the state's medical marijuana program have proven successful, efforts to fully legalize weed had never made it through both...

Days after failing twice amid a bitter tug-of-war between lawmakers, Nevada's special sales tax on marijuana was revived and sent to the governor's desk on the final day of the Legislature. Senate Bill 487, which would implement a 10 percent tax on retail marijuana sales in Nevada, was...