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President-elect Donald Trump and President Barack Obama don’t agree on much, but they do have one thing in common: Both say that marijuana legalization should be left to the states. “Reversing course and going against the tide of history would present huge political problems that the new...

There's no question that the Vermont House and Senate have very different views concerning the legalization of marijuana. In the final days of the session, some lawmakers are trying to bridge this gap with a new compromise plan. On one end of the legalization spectrum is the Senate plan to...

As the U.S. cannabis industry faces a crackdown, Canada is set to lead the globe. The current approach to cannabis does not work." This was the forceful first line of the Canadian government's April 13 announcement for their proposed bill to legalize cannabis nationally for recreational use...

Candidates running for state Senate will answer a weekly question posed by The New Jersey Herald on Mondays between now and the June 6 primary election. The same question will be posed to Assembly candidates on Tuesdays. Republican and Democratic candidates are in the order they will appear on...

New Jersey is clearly moving to join the many states that have legalized recreational marijuana - eight in just the last five years. We could do this in two ways: either by making pot a legal substance and taxing it, or by permitting people to possess a small amount, instead of arresting them...

A new CBS News poll today finds that 61 percent of Americans feel pot should be legal - up five percent from previous year - and the highest percentage ever recorded in this poll. Millennials ages 18-34 overwhelmingly support recreational marijuana by 76 percent, while those ages 35-64 all...

Yorkville Police Chief Rich Hart is one of a growing chorus of law enforcement officials who are in favor of marijuana legalization, as long as it's regulated properly. "Prohibition just hasn't worked and it's never going to work," he said. "At this point, it's better if there's proper...

Public Health, Delta and Menominee Counties, along with the SAVE council, will be hosting an Informational town hall meeting called Marijuana Legalization: "The Impact." The meeting will be held Thursday May 25, at the Bay College Besse Center Theater at 6 p.m. Guest speaker will be Kevin...

A federal group of prosecutors in the United States has criticized efforts at the US state level to legalize marijuana for medicinal and recreational purposes, saying that legalization has led to greater access by children to pot and created further challenges for impaired driving enforcement...

MONTPELIER - The Vermont House Judiciary Committee has approved a bill that would legalize the possession of up to one ounce of marijuana, or a handful of home-grown marijuana plants. The bill would allow adults over 21 years old to have up to one ounce of marijuana or up to five grams of...

A state-run survey of 37,000 middle and high school students in Washington state finds that marijuana legalization there has had no effect on youngsters' propensity to use the drug. The Washington State Healthy Youth Survey found that the 2016 rate of marijuana use was basically unchanged...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions became the second member of the Trump administration in less than a week to provide "alternative facts" and backward analysis when it comes to marijuana. Yesterday, in a meeting with reporters, Sessions spoke out against marijuana legalization and implied that...

The head of the advocacy effort to legalize marijuana in Rhode Island told GoLocal that he believes that there is support in the General Assembly this year to approve the measure -- if it comes to a vote. Jared Moffat with RegulateRI appeared on GoLocal LIVE to make the case for...

"On February 23, Press Secretary Sean Spicer indicated the Department of Justice might begin "greater enforcement" of federal law in states that have legalized marijuana. But during the campaign President Trump repeatedly pledged that if elected the federal government would respect the rights of...

As investors flock to Canada's burgeoning marijuana sector, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government is signaling recreational pot sales aren't imminent. Lawmaker Bill Blair -- the former Toronto police chief leading Trudeau's legalization effort -- confirmed a bill is due in parliament...

Annapolis – Supporters and detractors alike gathered in Annapolis to testify about two marijuana legalization bills being heard by the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee Thursday afternoon. Sen. Brian Feldman, D-Montgomery, is sponsoring a proposed referendum on an amendment to the state's...

Marijuana legalization proponents on Thursday ripped Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker for saying the state is in somewhat of a "no man's land" after voters approved recreational use of the substance in November. Jim Borghesani, a spokesman for the "Yes on 4" coalition, which pushed the...

When Massachusetts voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure in November to legalize recreational marijuana, Josh Miller saw this as a sign that his time had finally arrived. The Rhode Island state senator has a reputation among colleagues as a cannabis crusader – a battle that, so...

Marijuana legalization backers fear the worst for their fast-growing industry as the U.S. Senate prepares to vote Wednesday to approve a longtime pot opponent, Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, as the nation's next attorney general. All signs indicate that Sessions, who last year said...

Hated by prohibitionists and loved by its consumers and advocates, marijuana is considered taboo despite that it's one of the least harmful drugs you can find. Death by caffeine or Tylenol is more likely than death by marijuana, as the herb has never claimed a single life. Nevertheless, it...