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California has decided to light up: The state became the biggest in the U.S. to legalize recreational marijuana use on Tuesday. Proposition 64, which greenlights pot use for adults over 21 starting in 2018, looked set to pass with a 55 percent majority, according to early vote totals. The...

Citizens in California voted for the approval of marijuana for recreational use on Tuesday. Also called Proposition 64, it will have an impact on 40 million people living in California, where marijuana will be regulated like alcohol, rather than treated like a criminal enterprise. Colorado...

Los Angeles - The marijuana legalization movement scored its biggest victory yet Tuesday as voters in California, Massachusetts and Nevada approved recreational pot, making the drug fully legal in the nation's most populous state and giving it a toehold in the densely populated Northeast...

San Francisco - California, Massachusetts and Nevada legalized marijuana on Tuesday in what advocates said was a reflection of the country's changing attitude toward the drug. Leading up to the election, recreational marijuana use was legal in four states: Alaska, Colorado, Oregon and...

Nearly a quarter of Americans will live in areas where recreational marijuana use is legal if voters approve initiatives on Tuesday permitting the recreational use of cannabis in California, Massachusetts and three other states. With pot already legal for use by adults in four states and the...

With support for Proposition 64 trending high, a variety of organizations are laying the groundwork for a marijuana industry they say would boost California's economy, create jobs and enhance public safety. The initiative would legalize marijuana use for adults 21 years and older. A recent...

Pusha T is co-signing California's Proposition 64 that will legalize recreational use of marijuana in the state.The rapper known as "Push-A-Ton" may have to change his name to "Push-A-Vote" pretty soon. "What the urgency ordinances do is create a clear line of what's allowed and what's not - so...

I have been looking for a clone-only cut of this strain in the PNW and California lately, but no can find. Some OMMP and WMMP growers tell me that it is extinct. The original California Orange... not the crossed and watered down rip-off Dutch seeds that claim such, or the various clones that it...

It's incredible to think that we are less than a decade removed from George W. Bush's presidency and California might legalize adult-use of cannabis next week. It was just eight years ago that most medical-cannabis dispensary owners operated on the down-low, and law-enforcement agencies locally...

California - Momentum is building since a group of well-known actors and musicians came out last week in favor of Proposition 64, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, a voter initiative on the November 2016 ballot that will control, regulate and tax responsible adult use, sale and cultivation of...

U.S. voters next month in five states, including bellwether California, are poised to expand the legal use of recreational marijuana to almost a quarter of the American population, a move that could prove to be one of the most consequential shifts in U.S drug policy since the 1930s. Passage...

Medical marijuana has been legal in California since 1996. Proposition 64 would legalize recreational marijuana - that is, you wouldn't need a doctor's note - for adults over 21 years of age, with a lot of stipulations. If passed, smoking marijuana in public and while driving would be...

Garberville, Calif. - Laura Costa's son and husband moved quickly with pruning shears as they harvested the family's fall marijuana crop, racing along with several workers to cut the plants and drop them in plastic bins ahead of an impending storm. The farm, hidden along a winding mountain...

Garberville, Calif. - California voters will decide in November whether to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, 20 years after the state first allowed medicinal pot. It could mean a windfall for marijuana farmers in the state — but not all of them support it. Polls show the November...

If California is going to transition successfully to full legalization of cannabis, our state is going to need its own cartel. For the record (and to reassure my friends in federal law enforcement), I am not smoking anything. And I am not suggesting that California encourage a criminal...

California's state capital region could reap 20,000 jobs and generate $4.2-B in business if it becomes a hub for a legalized marijuana industry, a study released Monday showed. The report from the University of the Pacific in Stockton was commissioned by the cannabis investment company Truth...

A group of well-known actors and musicians today came out in favor of Proposition 64, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, a voter initiative on the November 2016 ballot that will control, regulate and tax responsible adult use, sale and cultivation of marijuana in California. Artists for 64 is...

The decriminalisation of recreational cannabis use in California could be a milestone towards ending the drug's prohibition nationally, it has been suggested. Alongside the presidential election, California will vote over whether to make recreational marijuana use legal on 8 November. If...

The initiative for marijuana legalization in California has gained enough traction for a vote on Nov. 8. Known as California Proposition 64 (Prop 64), residents of California will vote on whether or not to legalize recreational marijuana. If Prop 64 passes, adults aged 21 or older would be...

A sense of certainty that recreational, random marijuana use will be legalized, regulated and taxed in California after next month's election lies behind the millions of dollars invested so far in Proposition 64, which would allow adults to grow, buy and possess pot. No more medical marijuana...