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WikiLeaks has arguably been the most important thing that has happened to elections, if not the veneer of democracy, in quite a long time. We've been able to see the true side of politicians and bureaucrats like never before. In Hillary Clinton, we see a figure beholden to Wall St., working...

Five states will vote on whether to fully legalize marijuana in November. And supporters of those initiatives just got some pretty good news: Support for marijuana legalization in the US has reached historic highs. A Pew Research Center survey of 1,201 US adults, conducted in late August and...

Boston - Travel guru Rick Steves is kicking off a tour of Massachusetts in support of a pro-marijuana ballot question. On Tuesday, Steves will appear at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst at an event sponsored by the UMass Campus Cannabis Reform Coalition. On Wednesday, Steves plans to...

Here are some of the latest dispatches in the war to end the war on marijuana. The news from the eastern front is encouraging. New polls from Massachusetts and Maine show 53 percent support for each state's legalization initiatives, versus 40 percent opposition in Massachusetts and 38 percent...

Phil Murphy, the Democrats' likely nominee for governor next year, said Thursday night that he supports the legalization of marijuana in New Jersey. "I support legalization," Murphy said in response to a question at a town hall event in Rutherford. Murphy's position puts him at odds with...

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...

Boston - Since the decriminalization of marijuana possession in Massachusetts, racial disparities in marijuana arrests have persisted, disproportionately hurting African-Americans and Latinos. Supporters of the legalization of recreational marijuana are pointing to the racial disparities as...

Good morning from Gardiner. I spent last night at the forum on Question 1 organized by CBS 13 and the Bangor Daily News, which was marked by division among medical marijuana activists on the benefits of legalizing recreational use of the drug. The panel was traditionally divided: Representing...

Good morning from Gardiner. I spent last night at the forum on Question 1 organized by CBS 13 and the Bangor Daily News, which was marked by division among medical marijuana activists on the benefits of legalizing recreational use of the drug. The panel was traditionally divided: Representing...

The campaign pushing for marijuana legalization in Maine has raised $1.3 million this year, more than 26 times as much as the group opposing Question 1 on the November ballot. The Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, the group backing Question 1, reported raising $904,145 in cash...

Marijuana advocates are heading into the final weeks of the 2016 campaign with the wind at their backs as the latest polling shows legalization measures currently favored by voters in all five states where they're on the ballot. This is something of a reversal from just a month ago, when the...

Colorado voters approved a constitutional amendment in November 2012, making it the first American state to legalize recreational marijuana. Since January 2014, when the residents began legally buying marijuana, a billion—dollar—a—year legal marijuana industry has emerged (expected to surpass $1...

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...

This Election Day, Massachusetts and Maine might become the first states east of the Rockies to legalize the sale of marijuana. "It's time to get real about prohibition," says Richard Evans, a Northampton lawyer active in the Massachusetts' legalization movement for more than 40 years and...

Anchorage - Proponents and opponents of marijuana legalization have more in common than they think: each side makes predictions that for the most part have not come true. The Cato Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based public policy think tank focusing on free market and limited government...

People who believe that the Bible should be taken as the literal word of God may be much less likely to support the legalization of marijuana than those who believe the Bible is a book of moral fables, according to a new study. The study found that people who reported in national surveys that...

Discussions regarding the legalization of marijuana - either medically or recreationally - have made their way to Texas. In June, Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill into law allowing epilepsy patients to use oils containing small amounts of THC, the main chemical that causes the psychological...

The debate over marijuana regulation has been picking up steam, and 2016 may be a landmark year for marijuana legalization in the United States. In November, five states—Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada—will consider measures to legalize marijuana for recreational purposes...

Sacramento — Denver, Colorado gets 300 days of sunshine a year, but neighboring Greenwood Village Colorado Police Chief John Jackson says there is a dark cloud hanging over the state. "What people are saying is, I voted for it, but I didn't vote for that," said Jackson. He says problems...

San Franscisco - From California, with its counterculture heritage, to the fishing ports and mill towns of Maine, millions of Americans in nine states have a chance to vote Nov. 8 on expanding legal access to marijuana. Collectively, the ballot measures amount to the closest the U.S. has come to...