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Arizona didn't wake up on Monday morning to a change in the vote-count - Prop 205's still failing miserably. Its chances of passing as officials count the remaining votes this week are about the same as Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk dabbing a hit of shatter on the evening news. Unless...

Sen. Lisa Murkowski's husband and sons ordered her a new Benelli 12-gauge shotgun as a gift, but when the Alaska Republican - and enthusiastic duck hunter - went to pick it up, she was puzzled by a question on the federal background form she had to fill out. The form asked if she used...

In an election night of seismic shocks, one electoral trend held true to form Election Night: Marijuana law reform continued to win with voters. With California, Nevada, Maine, and Massachusetts legalizing marijuana last week, eight states, including the entire West Coast, have now joined the...

Portland, Ore. - Oregon's burgeoning marijuana industry could face a significant threat under President-Elect Donald Trump's administration. While Trump has said he would leave legalization for states to decide, the New York tycoon appeared poised Wednesday to appoint New Jersey Gov. Chris...

A slew of victories for medical marijuana Tuesday night has leaders at all levels of government grappling with conflicting instructions from voters and the federal code. Voters' approval in Arkansas, Florida, North Dakota and Montana of medical-marijuana ballot measures means that well over...

Recreational marijuana won big at the polls on Tuesday, with California, Massachusetts, and Nevada approving those laws and Maine's measure leaning toward yes, tripling the US population living in pot-friendly states. The laws allow adults to grow, consume, and give away marijuana - but the...

Tuesday night California, Massachusetts, and Nevada joined Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, Washington state and Washington D.C. in legalizing the recreational use of marijuana. Similarly, medical use referenda passed in Florida, North Dakota and Arkansas, making the 2016 election the biggest...

This year's election season was historic in more ways than one. An unprecedented nine states considered liberalizing cannabis laws, and here's how it broke down: California, Massachusetts and Nevada saw their ballot measures pass. If Maine's ballot measure is also approved, that would bring the...

Denver - Marijuana's overwhelming success at the ballot box Tuesday dumps a California-sized pile of pressure onto the federal government to answer a fairly basic question: Where are they going to put all that cash? Because marijuana remains illegal at the federal level, banks refuse to give...

Boston — Voters in Massachusetts have approved a ballot measure legalizing marijuana for general use by adults, a big step toward nullifying the unconstitutional federal prohibition of cannabis in effect. With 64 percent of the precincts reporting, Tenth Amendment Center projects Question 4...

Election night brought several astonishing, wholly unforeseen results. But let's put the presidential campaign aside for a second and talk about weed. Marijuana was on the ballot in nine states on Tuesday. Voters in eight of those states went to the polls and approved measures to roll back...

Q What does Ohio's medical marijuana law allow? A Effective Sept. 8, 2016, Ohio allows medical marijuana in a limited form: marijuana extracts sold by state-licensed dispensaries in oils, tinctures and patches primarily for eating and applying to the skin. Vaporization of cannabis is...

May all legalization measures pass via landslide today. May Federal legalization happen shortly thereafter :thumb:

Valdez, Alaska — Alaska's first retail marijuana shop opened its doors last week, despite federal prohibition. According to an AP report, more than 250 people lined up outside Herbal Outfitters in Valdez prior to the noon opening last Saturday. Some came from as far away as Fairbanks, more...

The retail marijuana market is coming above ground. Four states — Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington — regulate and tax commercial cannabis production and retail sales. In two of these states, Colorado and Washington, marijuana sales have yielded approximately $350 million in new tax...

Sierra Vista - If examples from Washington and Colorado are any indication, should Arizona voters pass Prop 205 this November and legalize recreational marijuana use for adults, there should be little to no federal interference with state law, even in areas with a high number of federal law...

In the United States, 25 of 50 States permit some form of legalized marijuana use. However, business owners and operators in this industry face the frustrating and risky morass of conflicting government regulations. Marijuana is illegal under federal law, but it is legal under Nevada law. And...

Congress continues to resist decriminalizing marijuana even as a popular crusade to legalize its use state by state may soon mean almost a quarter of Americans can smoke up at will, not including the many more who can use the drug medicinally. This has resulted in a patchwork of state laws...

Washington — A bill working its way through the Council of the District of Columbia would allow patients with valid medical marijuana cards from other states to access medicinal cannabis in D.C. Passage would take another step toward effectively nullifying federal prohibition in practice...

Washington — A bill working its way through the Council of the District of Columbia would allow patients with valid medical marijuana cards from other states to access medicinal cannabis in D.C. Passage would take another step toward effectively nullifying federal prohibition in practice...