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A lawsuit challenging an upcoming Matanuska-Susitna Borough ballot initiative could stall a vote on banning commercial marijuana in the Valley. Attorneys for the Borough filed a response Monday, arguing that the suit could wreak havoc with the Borough's October 4 election. One of two...

Helena - Montana Citizens for Initiative 182, the group trying to expand access to medical marijuana, has filed campaign finance complaints with the Commissioner of Political Practices against SafeMontana. Initiative 182 Treasurer Jeff Krauss said SafeMontana, the group behind Initiative 176...

Helena - Montana Citizens for Initiative 182, the group trying to expand access to medical marijuana, has filed campaign finance complaints with the Commissioner of Political Practices against SafeMontana. Initiative 182 Treasurer Jeff Krauss said SafeMontana, the group behind Initiative 176...

When Kelly Jacobs became the captain of Legalize Marijuana for Mississippi, a grassroots marijuana advocacy coalition in her home state, her husband asked her to make him one promise: that she'd never get arrested. But keeping that promise proved difficult after 57-year-old Jacobs became the...

A formal complaint has been filed against the Mat-Su Borough regarding its allegedly unlawful marijuana initiative, set to appear on the October ballot. The complaint, filed by Thomas Hannam and Ronda Marcy in Palmer Superior District Court on Tuesday, alleges that the borough and 15...

Those of us who support the full legalization of marijuana are greatly benefiting from political reforms adopted during what is frequently referred to as the Progressive Era in this country. The principal objective of the progressive movement was eliminating corruption in government, and to...

A federal appeals court upholds the ban on Gun sales to Medical Marijuana patients, Arkansans will have 2 Medical Marijuana initiatives on the ballot, Oklahoman's will likely have none, and more. Arkansas Last Thursday, a second medical marijuana initiative was okayed for the ballot. The...

A federal appeals court upholds the ban on Gun sales to Medical Marijuana patients, Arkansans will have 2 Medical Marijuana initiatives on the ballot, Oklahoman's will likely have none, and more. Arkansas Last Thursday, a second medical marijuana initiative was okayed for the ballot. The...

Days after rejecting a competing measure for the November ballot, the Denver Elections Division on Thursday approved a proposed initiative that would allow social use of marijuana in some businesses. City voters will decide whether regular businesses, such as bars or cafes or even yoga...

Proposition 205, Arizona's controversial recreational-marijuana initiative, was the subject of yet another lawsuit this week. Last week a judge threw out a suit filed by opponents of the initiative who alleged that the 100-word summary on the petition to get the measure on the November ballot...

Kern Citizens for Patient Rights has spent more than $75,000 to challenge Bakersfield's medical marijuana dispensary ban, and with fewer than 60 days until petitions are due, a board member said Monday the group is confident it will make the ballot. Just not the November ballot. Organizers of...

Kern Citizens for Patient Rights has spent more than $75,000 to challenge Bakersfield's medical marijuana dispensary ban, and with fewer than 60 days until petitions are due, a board member said Monday the group is confident it will make the ballot. Just not the November ballot. Organizers of...

An initiative that would have allowed the creation of private cannabis clubs will not appear on the November ballot. The Denver Elections Division announced Monday that the measure did not have enough signatures. The Elections Division hasn't made an announcement yet about the status of a...

National Last Friday, a study found that marijuana use is not associated with bad organ transplant outcomes. A peer-reviewed study from the journal Clinical Transplantation finds that marijuana use is not contraindicated in kidney transplants. "[R]ecreational marijuana use should not be...

National Last Friday, a study found that marijuana use is not associated with bad organ transplant outcomes. A peer-reviewed study from the journal Clinical Transplantation finds that marijuana use is not contraindicated in kidney transplants. "[R]ecreational marijuana use should not be...

Helena, Mont. - Organizers of a ballot initiative that aims to immediately reverse new restrictions to medical marijuana distribution in Montana may have inadvertently set their cause back by half a year. The initiative seeks, in part, to lift a restriction that goes into effect next week...

Helena, Mont. - Organizers of a ballot initiative that aims to immediately reverse new restrictions to medical marijuana distribution in Montana may have inadvertently set their cause back by half a year. The initiative seeks, in part, to lift a restriction that goes into effect next week...

Voters will decide this fall whether the state should legalize recreational marijuana. Last Friday, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by opponents that included Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery and the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The...

It's been 20 years since California punched through pot prohibition and became the first state to legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes. Now, 23 states have medical marijuana laws, and more than a dozen more have taken the half-step of legalizing the medicinal use of cannabidiol (CBD) only -...

It's been 20 years since California punched through pot prohibition and became the first state to legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes. Now, 23 states have medical marijuana laws, and more than a dozen more have taken the half-step of legalizing the medicinal use of cannabidiol (CBD) only -...