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Without lawmakers passing regulations for medical marijuana in Florida, it is left to local governments and businesses wondering what is next. On Tuesday, the Brevard County commissioners are looking for the public's input before they go ahead with regulating medical marijuana. They, like...

or all their talk about "activist judges," Florida lawmakers just created a pathway for judges to decide what voters intended last November in passing a state constitutional amendment that legalizes medical marijuana for patients with certain diseases. And given the choices left standing at...

House and Senate lawmakers are deadlocked on a bill to define the prohibition of "open and public" pot use. The question of where you can consume cannabis in Colorado continues to stress lawmakers, even as the state approaches five years of legalization. The state Senate and House approved...

A legislative battle over recreational marijuana could be on the way in Boston, with public hearings poised to begin. State lawmakers are set on holding hearings, starting next week, to address possible tweaks to the recreational cannabis law approved by Massachusetts voters in November, a move...

Atlanta - Georgia lawmakers, citizens, and advocates are continuing to push for expanded access to medical marijuana. The Medical Cannabis Working Group met at the state capitol Wednesday to discuss the bill and hear public testimony. New questions about the language of the bill were brought...

Democratic lawmakers announced a push Monday to legalize and tax marijuana for recreational use in Maryland. They announced a pair of bills to make lighting up a legal act. Some of the same lawmakers are also trying to put the issue on a ballot for voters to decide. The pro-marijuana lawmakers...

Salt Lake City – Utah lawmakers announced Friday that they're scaling back their push to expand the state's very limited medical marijuana law to more uses or ailments and instead will focus on calling for additional research on the drug's effects. Four Republican lawmakers said at a news...

Tallahassee, Fla - Florida's police chiefs, sheriffs and the highway patrol spent the morning telling lawmakers about safeguards they'd like to see in medical marijuana legislation. Mike Vasilinda tells us how those rules range from local zoning control to packaging to even having access to...

The two lawmakers hope public opinion is different this time around in order to sway other legislators and Gov. Susana Martinez to legalize recreational marijuana. There are two similar bills, one in the House and one in the Senate. They would legalize small amounts of marijuana, regulate it...

Salt Lake City – A three-year push to pass some kind of comprehensive medical marijuana law in Utah could come to a head when state lawmakers start their annual session Monday. Lawmakers have spent the past few years studying the issue and are working on a package of bills to expand access to...

Augusta – Lawmakers heard hours of testimony on Tuesday about whether to delay retail sales of marijuana in order to give the state additional time to craft regulations. Maine is expected to lift its prohibition on adult possession and cultivation of marijuana on Jan. 30, joining a half-dozen...

Bismarck, N.D. – Caught off-guard by voters in this highly conservative state approving medical marijuana, North Dakota lawmakers said Monday that more time is needed to implement the law. A rare House and Senate meeting was held to consider a proposal to delay the law until the end of July...

The legalization of recreational marijuana in MA is causing some Rhode Island lawmakers to try to catch up to their neighbor and possibly race ahead. Even more approve of the idea of legalizing marijuana for medical use, a step that 28 states have taken. According to a statement from...

A pair of lawmakers want to make Rhode Island the ninth U.S. state to legalize recreational marijuana and the first to do so through the legislature rather than with a ballot initiative, they said on Tuesday. State Senator Joshua Miller and state Representative Scott Slater, both Democrats...

Jefferson City, Mo. - Two local lawmakers sponsored bills that would legalize medical marijuana in Missouri. State Rep. Jim Neely, R-Cameron, sponsored HB437 which would allow people with serious medical conditions to use medical marijuana. He said he supports medical marijuana after...

Several bills filed by Texas lawmakers would decriminalize marijuana in the state, or at least allow it for medical reasons. The 2017 session begins Tuesday. "I believe Texas is at a tipping point where we're seeing the rest of the country having a sensible marijuana policy," said Shaun...

Olympia, Wash. - The battle over finding billions of additional dollars to pay for K-12 education in Washington pits Democrats who want to raise taxes against Republicans who prefer cutting other areas of government. The challenges facing lawmakers were on stark display Thursday, with Democrats...

Someone whose name sounds like a truck part once sang, "Take it slow, it'll work itself out fine. All we need is just a little patience." Patience, however, may be in short supply. House Speaker Robert DeLeo and Senate President Stanley Rosenberg's familiarity with the song catalog of Guns n'...

The 2017 legislative session is scheduled to start Wednesday with hundreds of campaign promises at stake and a General Assembly split by just seven seats in the House and a tiebreaking lieutenant governor in the Senate. The budget – depending on which analyst you believe – is in deficit by...

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker signed a bill Friday aimed at delaying the opening of marijuana shops in the state until mid-2018. An aide to the Republican governor said Baker shares the desire of state lawmakers to thoroughly prepare for the launch of a new industry distributing a...