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Global News correspondent Monique Muise reported on Thursday morning, June 30, 2016, at 11.56 a.m. EDT, a possible change in the legal status of marijuana in works for Canada. The narcotic drug, which currently is illegal, will soon become legal. Speaking on behalf of the country’s federal...

California will officially vote on whether to make recreational marijuana use legal this November. If approved, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) will allow adults over 21 to possess up to an ounce of marijuana for personal use, as well as allow the cultivation of up to six plants...

Thursday morning, the government of Canada announced that it has created a task force that will be charged with developing a framework for legalizing recreational marijuana nationwide. The move marks a "crucial step" in the legalization process, Rafik Souccar, a top law enforcement official...

California residents will get to vote on the legalization of recreational cannabis this November after campaigners gathered more than 600,000 signatures to put it on the ballot. Secretary of State Alex Padilla announced on Tuesday that the initiative, which required just over 402,000...

Throughout my career in medicine, two principles have guided my work: to do no harm and to base all decisions on empirical evidence. Both tenets have led me to vigorously support legalization, taxation, and regulation of marijuana for use by adults 21 and older. Recently, state Sen...

Nevada voters should now brace against millions of dollars from out-of-state Big Marijuana interests supporting Question 2, the legalization of recreational marijuana, on the November ballot. Voters need to realize that by voting “yes” on Question 2, they will be adopting all provisions of a...

Valparaiso - Beth Wilson paused Saturday during a marijuana legalization rally outside the Porter County Courthouse, suddenly able to feel the electric pulses generating from a pacemaker-like device beneath her skin. The device goes off every five minutes, helping control the 53-year-old Hobart...

A lot of horror stories about marijuana and youths exist, but new data from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment busts at least one of them: no, marijuana legalization doesn't equate higher rates of teen smoking. Recreational marijuana use became legal for adults 21 and over...

Third-party presidential candidates, Gary Johnson and Dr. Jill Stein, do not have the same advantages as Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton. However, both candidates mounted presidential bids in 2012 and may gain new political ground this election year thanks to one issue — marijuana legalization...

After the weekend's massive police raid on the open-air cannabis market Pusher Street, a number of prominent figures in law enforcement have called on Denmark to stop fighting a losing battle and legalize cannabis. Friday's raid on Pusher Street saw around 100 officers tear down 37 cannabis...

Where there are markets, regulations, and money, special interests and self-serving behavior will not be far away. So argue Philip Wallach and Jonathan Rauch in this new paper that examines how special interests are likely to shape marijuana legalization and regulation in the United States. Why...

Sen. Nicholas Scutari is an enthusiastic proponent of the full legalization of recreational marijuana in New Jersey, even more so after a recent fact-finding tour of Colorado, where pot has already been legal for more than two years. All jokes aside about what Scutari was doing out in...

Trenton - As many as 10 states could join Colorado, Alaska, Washington, Washington, D.C., Oregon and legalize recreational marijuana this year. On Tuesday, a New Jersey lawmaker will hold a press conference Tuesday to discuss how a similar law might work here. Still, it's a safe bet legalization...

Marijuana legalization is no longer just a pipe dream; in several states, it's become a reality. With Washington, Oregon, Colorado, and Alaska all having passed voter-backed legalization initiatives, residents in three of those states are now free to engage in the purchase and consumption of...

36 leftist SYRIZA MPs submitted a question to Greek Health Minister Panagiotis Kouroumblis regarding the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes. The question, titled "National plan for medicinal cannabis," follows a previous request for the legalization of medical marijuana production in...

36 leftist SYRIZA MPs submitted a question to Greek Health Minister Panagiotis Kouroumblis regarding the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes. The question, titled "National plan for medicinal cannabis," follows a previous request for the legalization of medical marijuana production in...

Much has changed since the book "Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know" was first published four years ago–so much so that at least 60 percent of the material in the second edition is new, says Beau Kilmer, co-director of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center and a co-author of the...

You've probably heard of Focus on the Family, the group that uses your superstition about a magical fairy in the sky to get you to fork over your hard-earned dollars so they can build bigger mansions and nicer churches and fight the evil gays who are going to get married and somehow ruin...

American voters are more unified over medical marijuana than gun control, immigration and taxes, yet presidential candidates keep blowing smoke. Nearly 90% of Americans – 81% of Republicans and 94% of Democrats – support the legal use of medical marijuana, according to a Quinnipiac University...

American voters are more unified over medical marijuana than gun control, immigration and taxes, yet presidential candidates keep blowing smoke. Nearly 90% of Americans — 81% of Republicans and 94% of Democrats — support the legal use of medical marijuana, according to a Quinnipiac University...