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With increasing frequency states are enacting laws, either through legislators or through voter initiatives, that are chipping away at long standing prohibitionary policies against cannabis possession that still exist undisturbed at the federal level. While the most significant change is flat...

New Hampshire lawmakers say legalization of marijuana in Maine and Massachusetts should increase the chance of passing similar laws in the Granite State, while police officials say they'll continue to arrest people found in possession of pot until the law changes. "The bottom line is we have...

South Tyrol (Alto Adige in Italian) is an autonomous province in Italy with a population more than 500,000. Recently, in Bolzano, the capital city of the region, the libertarians issued a motion to legalize cannabis use, however, it was rejected by the South Tyrolian State Parliament. "Alto...

Although state-wide marijuana legalization initiatives like the ones in California, Massachusetts, Florida and elsewhere got most of the attention, several Colorado communities voted on marijuana questions as well. And in two cases the initiatives had national implications. In Denver, it...

The semester's third Honors College Town Hall meeting opened budding dialogue on the nation's most hotly contested plant. The Town Hall featured a panel of three — including two UA students and Patricia Todd, District 54's House Representative for the state of Alabama — discussing marijuana...

The semester's third Honors College Town Hall meeting opened budding dialogue on the nation's most hotly contested plant. The Town Hall featured a panel of three — including two UA students and Patricia Todd, District 54's House Representative for the state of Alabama — discussing marijuana...

It's unclear whether a Donald Trump administration will kill pot advocates' vibe after their landslide victory on Tuesday. Nine different states voted on marijuana-related ballot initiatives - four considered legal medical marijuana and five chose whether to legalize recreational marijuana...

As the dust settles on the results of the 2016 general election, two New England states are en route to establishing legalized, regulated marijuana systems. Massachusetts and Maine are among four states across the country where voters approved ballot initiatives to legalize recreational pot...

Seven of the eight passed. "The new law focuses on undoing the most egregious harms of marijuana prohibition, which have disproportionately impacted communities of color", says Lynne Lyman from the Drug Policy Alliance, according to the Los Angeles Times. In Florida, medical marijuana passed...

This is huge. Initiatives to legalize recreational marijuana were on the ballots of five states Tuesday, and medical marijuana initiatives were on the ballots of four more. As of 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, three states had legalized recreational pot and it was leading in one more. All four states...

On November 7, 2012, the day after 55 percent of Colorado voters passed the legalization of marijuana, I got a call from my mom. "I can't believe Amendment 64 passed," she said. "Back in the '60s we fought for marijuana legalization, but I never believed it would actually happen." We...

Americans woke up Wednesday morning to find the nation's drug-policy landscape radically altered. California, Massachusetts and Nevada legalized recreational marijuana use on Tuesday, while voters in a handful of Southern and deeply conservative states embraced medical marijuana...

Boston - Now that Massachusetts voters have welcomed legal marijuana to the Bay State and voted to end cannabis prohibition on Dec. 15, attention is turning to implementation of the new law and whether neighboring states will follow Massachusetts' lead. With 99 percent of the votes counted as...

Election Day was a watershed moment for marijuana legalization. Recreational marijuana is now legal in seven states - Maine has yet to be called - as well as Washington D.C. 24 states have varying forms of medical marijuana laws on the books. President-elect Donald Trump will have to...

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...

Nearly half of the US has already legalized marijuana in some form, and before Election Day, four states allowed recreational use and sales. On November 8, another three states voted in favor of outright marijuana legalization: California, Nevada, and Massachusetts all just voted in favor of...

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...

The results of today's marijuana legalization ballot initiatives will set the stage for the next four years of American drug policy. If California and a number of other states legalize the recreational use of the drug, many observers, including President Obama, say that the a strict federal pot...

The alcohol almost killed him. After guzzling beer all day in the Arizona sun, Mason Tvert was plastered. So drunk, an ambulance eventually rushed the then-high school senior from an outdoor concert to the hospital. Staff there offered to call him a cab home, but, as he recalls, did not say a...

Ignored in the tumult of the presidential race is the fact that the 2016 election may be a milestone in the struggle to end marijuana prohibition. Five states - Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada - all have marijuana legalization initiatives on the ballot. Polls indicate that...