legalization

A majority of Maine voters favor legalizing marijuana for recreational use, according to a new Portland Press Herald poll showing a groundswell of support among residents under age 50 and among those living in southern or coastal areas. Roughly 53 percent of respondents in the newspaper's...

A Northeast beer industry group is helping lobby against a referendum that would legalize marijuana in Massachusetts. The industry's opposition to recreational marijuana is strange, given that other states that have opted to legalize have actually seen beer revenue go up. Recreational...

A record number of states will vote on marijuana initiatives this November. In five states - California, Arizona, Nevada, Massachusetts and Maine - voters will be asked whether they want to legalize recreational marijuana and a handful of other states will vote on legalizing medical programs...

The 4:20 Hemp Shop sits on Avenida 18 de Julio, one of the most important streets in the southernmost Latin American capital of Montevideo, Uruguay. Like General José Artigas, who led the fight for Uruguayan independence from the Spanish, English and Portuguese, and whose mausoleum sits at the...

Support for marijuana legalization has grown dramatically over the past decade since California first passed laws permitting its use for medical reasons, but not everyone is on board. Aside from groups you'd expect to be opposed to it, like those in the healthcare industry, many were surprised...

The people behind Dr. Bronner's are just as concerned about legalizing cannabis as they are creating high-quality skin care products. The Vista, Calif.-based company dedicated to producing all-natural organic body care products will donate over $660,000 towards responsible marijuana...

Nearly half of the US has already legalized marijuana, for either medical or recreational use. This November, another eight states could continue the trend. Of those eight states, five have ballot initiatives that could result in outright recreational legalization. Most significantly...

Marijuana legalization proponents in Massachusetts can count Jonathan Bush, the CEO of Watertown-based healthcare company Athenahealth and a cousin of former President George W. Bush, in their corner. According to state political finance records, Bush donated $10,000 to the Yes on 4 campaign...

Downtown Oakland on a sunny, bright June day, and the air outside the Marriott City Center hotel is fragrant with, ahem, opportunity. Inside a massive banquet hall, thousands of besuited pot industry people pack the seats, aisles and walls to hear Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom deliver the 11 a.m...

One pro-marijuana legalization group has raised over $2.4 million in 2016 alone, while the largest opposing campaign has raised less than $400,000, according to state financial reports filed Friday. The pro-legalization group, YES on 4, began in the summer of 2015, and by that fall had a...

The latest polls on marijuana legalization are in, and they contain a lot of good news. In California, two polls show Proposition 64 passing, one of them with very strong support. A poll taken for the Los Angeles Times found that 58 percent of those surveyed favored passage of the proposition...

It's billed as the "Battle of the Buzz." Alcohol and pharmaceutical companies are putting big money into the fight against marijuana legalization, as they fear consumers will start choosing marijuana over their products. With similar clientele, alcohol companies are worried they'll lose...

By the end of the year, the number of people living in a state where marijuana is legal for recreational use could quadruple. Five states - Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada - are set to vote on full marijuana legalization in November, potentially joining Colorado...

Community members gathered at the Beus Center for Law and Society building Tuesday for an Issues & Answers Forum regarding Proposition 205, which would legalize marijuana in Arizona. The panel included two national experts, who supplied information, and two Arizonans, one arguing for...

An Arizona-based pharmaceutical company is fighting weed legalization, due at least in part to fears that it will hurt their business. Insys Therapeutics Inc, gave $500,000 to Arizonans for Responsible Drug Policy, a prominent anti-marijuana legalization group, becoming the group's single...

You can be sure Vermont lawmakers will continue their debate on marijuana come January. "Whether or not it should be legalized, as well as medical marijuana and if it should expand or not," says Sen. Dick Sears, (D) Bennington. But there's also the question of what happens if neighboring...

In 2014, legal sale of recreational marijuana began in Colorado and Washington state. Oregon and Alaska are creating similar regulatory regimes. This November, at least five more states will vote on legal pot. This group includes a potential game changer: California, America's biggest state by...

Two major donations have come in to uphold pot prohibition in California and Arizona. In Arizona, the makers of the deadly painkiller Fentanyl gave $500,000 to defeat that state's legalization effort, which is barely polling at 50 percent. And today in California, the Los Angeles Times reports...

The campaign pushing to legalize marijuana and establish a new pot retail system in Massachusetts has raised $2.4 million in 2016, with $2.1 million coming from one source, a D.C.-based cannabis reform advocacy group. The opposition campaign, which has the support of various politicians...

"The secret history of the heroin crisis," Don Winslow writes at Esquire, is rooted in marijuana legalization. Specifically, Winslow claims that because marijuana legalization in Colorado and other states depleted drug cartels' revenues - by pushing marijuana out of the black market - the...