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Update: Tomorrow, February 3, a memorial service will be held in Boulder for Laura Kriho, an important and passionate cannabis activist who died earlier this week; see our previous coverage below. Information about the gathering is included in a lovely and heartfelt remembrance shared by...

A drug-policy consultant will visit Buffalo on Tuesday to argue that New York should legalize recreational marijuana not simply because, in his view, the current system squanders police resources, targets certain minorities and fosters a dangerous, underground economy. Legalizing marijuana...

Maine lawmakers have approved amendments of the first portion of the marijuana legalization on Thursday. Maine voters backed up the legalization in November and are looking forward for the amendment to take effect on Monday. This will allow adults 21 and above to possess and grow a limited...

Members of the Vermont Coalition to Regulate Marijuana renewed their call for pot legalization Wednesday at the Statehouse. The coalition supported legislation last year that would have created a legal, regulated market for recreational marijuana in Vermont. Matt Simon, of the Marijuana...

Germany is a progressive nation in many ways, but some could say the country was behind the times when it came to marijuana legalization. Though after a long fought battle, the German parliament passed the first step to legalized cannabis when they unanimously voted on Thursday to legalize the...

Trenton – Republican Gov. Chris Christie's warning to the Democrat-led Legislature not to move forward with legalizing marijuana is going mostly unheeded. Christie, a longtime opponent of legalizing the recreational use of the drug, cautioned lawmakers in an impassioned State of the State...

Marijuana legalization advocates fear the Massachusetts Legislature, which has already delayed the opening of pot shops, will now gut several key parts of the law approved by 1.8 million voters in November. Public comments from Senate President Stanley C. Rosenberg about potential changes are...

The stigma around cannabis in the U.S. continues to fuel the various myths surrounding its use and its users. As such, proponents of cannabis continue to highlight the potential health benefits, while educating on legalization efforts and debunking historical myths. In part 1 of our interview...

The sponsors of two measures to legalize marijuana say the issue will get "a full and deep discussion" from New Mexico lawmakers this year because of growing public acceptance and Democratic control of the Legislature. Both proposals would legalize marijuana for recreational use by anyone 21 or...

Should Marijuana Be Legalized? That's the topic to be discussed at a panel discussion organized by the Roseau Public Library on Thursday 12 January 2017. This panel discussion, which will be held at the Pointe Mitchel Community Center from 7PM, coincides with Drug Awareness Month which is...

Washington – Backers of marijuana legalization on Monday stepped up their pressure on the U.S. Senate to block the confirmation of Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions as the next attorney general. Sessions, a staunch opponent of legalization, angered proponents in April when he called pot...

Marijiuana, a divisive issue that normally resurfaces in Europe during election campaigns, has come home to France's hotly-contested presidential race. With eight months to go until the 2017 French presidential election, marijuana - or cannabis, as the French prefer to call it - is an honored...

It looks like 2017 is the year that marijuana legalization finally takes off — a full three years after Guam voters approved the legal use of marijuana for medicinal purposes. During the waning days of the 33rd Guam Legislature, senators passed Bill 343-33, which provides for the rules and...

Marijuana legalization activists in the nation's capital plan to hand out thousands of joints during President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration as a way to raise awareness of about the fragility of legal pot under his administration. The advocacy group behind the ballot initiative that...

In the last few years, attitudes to marijuana in the U.S. appeared to be easing. And in many ways, they have. Four states have fully legalized recreational cannabis, and four more voted to follow them in November. But the same election that doubled the number of pot-tolerant states brought...

In America, the cannabis legalization movement has been in full swing, with states like California, Massachusetts, Maine, and Nevada joining Washington and Colorado by legalizing recreational weed in 2016. Other states like Florida, Arkansas, Montana, and North Dakota also followed suit...

Like a stressed-out dad who ignores the fact that his kids smell of pot whenever they come home from school, the Brewers Association has been dodging the issue of marijuana for a while. Although the Boulder-based organization, which represents the craft-beer industry nationwide, is located in...

Voters in eight states passed marijuana legalization laws following the 2016 presidential election, giving pot legalization the required momentum for more states across the country to carry out discussions on the decriminalization of cannabis in 2017. Here are the states that may legalize...

With the end of 2016, one-fifth of the US population lives in a place where it is legal or will soon be legal to smoke marijuana for entirely recreational purposes. It's a result of the biggest year for marijuana legalization yet, in which the number of states that fully legalized marijuana...

This was the biggest year on record for marijuana: Four more states legalized recreational marijuana, and Colorado passed one billion dollars in sales. If 2016 was any indication, the marijuana market will just keep growing. Here are six things to watch for in 2017: 1. President Donald Trump...