legalization

With recreational marijuana use now legal in Massachusetts – and about to become so in Maine – some New Hampshire lawmakers are preparing for what they see as its inevitable acceptance here in the Granite State. In the upcoming session, lawmakers will take up separate measures to decriminalize...

As of last month's elections, four more states voted to decriminalize marijuana for both medical and recreational use, bringing the grand total to 8 states that have legalized recreational marijuana (9, including Washington D.C.). The Harris Poll revisited the topic of legalized marijuana this...

Voters may have spoken on marijuana legalization, but the forecast for when Mainers could legally enjoy the drug remains hazy, at best. Carrying out the will of the voters — albeit a slim majority of them — on legalization will be one of the most arduous tasks facing lawmakers returning in...

Portland, Maine - A group that campaigned against the legalization of marijuana in Maine has dropped its request for a recount The opposition group said it has withdrawn its request with the Secretary of State's office and that is satisfied that the result approving marijuana legalization in...

Lawmakers have gone back and forth on whether to delay implementation of recreational marijuana in the state. They decided this week not to delay it. However, lawmakers who are ambivalent are not alone. Administrators and elected officials in Boxford, Middleton and Topsfield now find themselves...

During an event being held by Our Revolution on Wednesday evening, Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison laid out his plan for the DNC if he is chosen to head the party's formal fundraising and platform arm. Ellison, who is being supported by many progressive Democrats, showed his progressive colors...

Every time I read a story about drug use which is full of survey results and statistics I find it hard to suppress the urge to wonder if the people compiling all of the data have been sampling the product. Still, this report at US News & World Report is tackling one of the nagging issues which...

More Americans now have access to legal recreational marijuana than ever before, but today's teens are generally staying away from using pot and drugs altogether. Despite further cannabis law reform throughout the U.S., teen marijuana use has actually dropped in certain categories, while...

Marijuana reform advocates have been celebrating since seven states elected to legalize cannabis on Election Day victories – but where exactly is the legalization movement heading in the next couple years? Tom Angell, founder of the pro-legalization nonprofit Marijuana Majority, predicted...

California voters passed Proposition 64 in November to legalize recreational marijuana, but one county is asking for a pause on the decriminalization until its policies can catch up. San Mateo County's Board of Supervisors unanimously supported a temporary moratorium on legalization Tuesday...

Sen. Margaret Rose Henry is hoping to add Delaware to the list of states that have legalized recreational marijuana use. In her bill, expected to be introduced in January 2017, marijuana use will be legalized for those 21 and over. The Delaware legislature has approved the legalization of...

Four states, including California, the nation's most populous, voted to legalize marijuana on November 8. That doubles the number of legal states to eight (plus the District of Columbia), and more than quadruples the number of people living in legal marijuana states, bringing the number to...

Nevada City, Calif. December 3, 2016 — One of the first reactions to marijuana legalization in California would seem to be a dampening down of activity by Americans for Safe Access, a group active in making medical marijuana available to Nevada County patients. Not so, says the group's chair...

South Dakota marijuana advocates said Wednesday that they're prepared to explore multiple avenues in hopes of blazing an effective path to legalization. Melissa Mentele, 39, said she plans to submit two ballot measures to the attorney general's office this month and is also ready to fight for...

Marijuana should be treated as a "public health issue, the same way we do with cigarettes or alcohol," said President Obama in a post-election interview with Rolling Stone. In the interview made public this week, the president, who has admitted to smoking marijuana in his younger days...

At age 18, I attended a party where police found tiny amounts of marijuana. Without funds for an attorney, I accepted "deferred probation". It has followed me my entire life. I graduated from college, law, and graduate school, yet I had to endure a hearing to ascertain my fitness to practice. It...

Election Day was a blowout for the cause of legal marijuana. Ballot measures legalizing medical or recreational cannabis use passed for the first time in seven states, with a defeat in Arizona the only setback for activists. But, as the experiences of other legal-marijuana states show, the...

President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions to be U.S. attorney general raises all kinds of fears across America, the main one being his questionable commitment to civil rights, which the Justice Department is supposed to defend. But another area of concern, particularly for...

Boston, MA - A ballot initiative legalizing recreational marijuana in Massachusetts may see its retail openings pushed back, based on reports out of Beacon Hill. According to The Boston Globe, pot shops' start-of-2018 opening date could get delayed until the middle of year, or even later...

A few of our country's most notable Founding Fathers - think George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams - grew the cannabis plant, hemp, as a multipurpose crop, while colonists from that time could pay their taxes with the plant. Betsy Ross sewed her American flag from hemp. "How...