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California is preparing landmark water regulations for the state's marijuana growers to safeguard the environment and encourage water conservation and storage. The California Department of Food and Agriculture is drafting the water-use rules, which are expected to increase growers' paperwork...

Justin Trudeau campaigned for "Real Change" and included many platforms differentiating him from the Conservative Party's message. One real and big change proposal included legalizing adult-use cannabis in Canada. Citizens in Nanaimo believe this campaign issue helped elect Liberal Party leader...

With election day soon approaching, California's campaign to legalize marijuana has now assembled the largest group of supporters in the issue's history. In a press conference held on Monday at San Francisco's ACLU office, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Prop 64's large list of endorsements...

The Nov. 8 election can't come quickly enough for some people - especially for supporters of California's recreational marijuana legalization initiative, Prop 64. Prop 64 would legalize recreational cannabis for adults aged 21 and up and impose a 15% sales tax at the retail level on consumers...

Proposition 64 for recreational cannabis is expected to be voted into California state law on the Nov. 6 ballot with large support. The Los Angeles Times reported in September that 58 percent of California voters support the legalization. Yet, in regards to cannabis, Cal Poly Pomona has no...

One in four Americans may soon be living in places where marijuana is fully legal, thanks to state ballot initiatives this November. California, Massachusetts, Arizona, Maine and Nevada will all be asking voters next month whether to end prohibition on the recreational consumption of...

TV ads in support of marijuana legalization hit the airwaves yesterday up and down the state of California. The campaign's ads in support of Proposition 64, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act are running on both broadcast and cable channels. The first ad highlights in a straightforward way how the...

California's elite artisanal medical cannabis extract-makers will get the same legal shield as the patients and collectives they currently serve, under new law signed by Gov. Jerry Brown. The California Cannabis Industry Association announced Sunday that Gov. Brown signed Assembly Bill AB...

California's elite artisanal medical cannabis extract-makers will get the same legal shield as the patients and collectives they currently serve, under new law signed by Gov. Jerry Brown. The California Cannabis Industry Association announced Sunday that Gov. Brown signed Assembly Bill AB...

One would expect marijuana growers to rejoice at a ballot measure in November that would legalize the cultivation, sale, and recreational use of marijuana. In California, however, many growers actually oppose the proposition. A recent poll conducted by the California Growers Association's...

Sacramento — Among the many decisions California voters will be faced with in November, recreational marijuana legalization is one that has sparked discussion and debate. Prop 64 would legalize the recreational sale and use of pot. In the course of five stories this week, we'll take an...

A sense of certainty that recreational 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 ruses...

One published media report this month said the campaign to legalize marijuana in California had raised $18 million. Within days, other major news outlets pegged the total at just one-third that amount, while a nonprofit campaign watchdog group said the figure was $11 million. Why the...

With a goal of limiting the number of new marijuana grows in California Valley, the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors passed urgency rules Tuesday banning any new cultivation of marijuana in the unincorporated areas of the county - but allowing existing sites to continue if they can...

Two years ago, the city of Adelanto, a crumbling outpost in California's Mojave desert, was facing a bleak future as it teetered on the brink of bankruptcy and struggled with double-digit unemployment. "We were about to vanish, to be incorporated into another city," says councilman John "Bug"...

Mexico City - Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, who has proposed liberalizing his country's drug laws, privately raised with California lawmakers visiting Mexico a state measure to legalize recreational marijuana, a state legislator said on Thursday. A delegation of California Democratic...

Downtown Oakland on a sunny, bright June day, and the air outside the Marriott City Center hotel is fragrant with, ahem, opportunity. Inside a massive banquet hall, thousands of besuited pot industry people pack the seats, aisles and walls to hear Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom deliver the 11 a.m...

A recent poll shows that a majority of California voters are favoring a section to legalize recreational marijuana on the November ballot, according to the Los Angeles Times. Medical marijuana is currently legal in California, but Proposition 64, or the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, proposes...

It's expected that in November, California voters will pass Proposition 64, an initiative that would legalize the recreational use of marijuana in the state. The political reality is that with such heavyweight actors as Woody Harrelson sitting on the advisory board of policy groups like the...

Two major donations have come in to uphold pot prohibition in California and Arizona. In Arizona, the makers of the deadly painkiller Fentanyl gave $500,000 to defeat that state's legalization effort, which is barely polling at 50 percent. And today in California, the Los Angeles Times reports...