marijuana

On November 7, 2012, the day after 55 percent of Colorado voters passed the legalization of marijuana, I got a call from my mom. "I can't believe Amendment 64 passed," she said. "Back in the '60s we fought for marijuana legalization, but I never believed it would actually happen." We...

Nine states voted on marijuana initiatives on Tuesday as the country continues to grow more open to legalization. There are now eight states with legal access to marijuana in some form, as California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada joined Washington state, Oregon, Colorado, Alaska, along with...

On Tuesday night, even as Democrats recoiled in horror at the election of Donald Trump, American voters in several states loudly rejected marijuana prohibition. California, Massachusetts, Nevada, and Maine all passed referenda legalizing recreational use. And Florida, North Dakota Arkansas and...

Florida voters approved a state constitutional amendment Tuesday to legalize medical marijuana, broadening access to pot beyond the limited therapeutic uses approved by the legislature two years ago. Currently, the law allows non-smoked, low-THC pot for patients with cancer or ailments that...

Florida voters approved a state constitutional amendment Tuesday to legalize medical marijuana, broadening access to pot beyond the limited therapeutic uses approved by the legislature two years ago. Currently, the law allows non-smoked, low-THC pot for patients with cancer or ailments that...

A slew of victories for medical marijuana Tuesday night has leaders at all levels of government grappling with conflicting instructions from voters and the federal code. Voters' approval in Arkansas, Florida, North Dakota and Montana of medical-marijuana ballot measures means that well over...

Pueblo, Colo. — A southern Colorado community has voted to keep a burgeoning marijuana industry in a vote seen as an indication of whether communities with pot shops consider them good neighbors. Voters in the city and county of Pueblo rejected measures to close some 100 recreational...

Bismarck, N.D. - They had tearfully but unsuccessfully pleaded to North Dakota lawmakers about how medical marijuana would help their critically ill children or ease their chronic pain. When they took their case to the deeply conservative and religious state's voters, they found victory - a...

Bismarck, N.D. - They had tearfully but unsuccessfully pleaded to North Dakota lawmakers about how medical marijuana would help their critically ill children or ease their chronic pain. When they took their case to the deeply conservative and religious state's voters, they found victory - a...

The election wasn't just about Republicans and Democrats, marijuana also won big on election night. Voters approved recreational marijuana in California, Nevada, Massachusetts and Maine. Medicinal marijuana passed in Montana, North Dakota, Arkansas and Florida. But will either of those measures...

Springfield - Unsurprisingly, David Mech, owner of the Potco store at 522 Sumner Ave., is pleased that Massachusetts voters decided Tuesday to legalize marijuana and sell it under similar regulations to those that pertain now to alcohol. And he'd like Potco to be one of the first marijuana...

Boise - As of Tuesday, Idaho shares 77 percent of its border with pot-friendly states, making it an island of abstinence on the legal weed frontier. The Spokesman-Review reports that with new laws to be enacted in Nevada and Montana and including British Columbia, where medical pot is legal, 80...

Supporters of medical marijuana on Wednesday celebrated the landslide victory of Amendment 2 as long-needed relief for Florida's sickest patients. But it will likely be many months before most of the estimated 450,000 people who qualify for the drug will actually have access to it. And the...

Supporters of medical marijuana on Wednesday celebrated the landslide victory of Amendment 2 as long-needed relief for Florida's sickest patients. But it will likely be many months before most of the estimated 450,000 people who qualify for the drug will actually have access to it. And the...

At least temporarily, the Shelby County Commission put itself on the wrong side of history last week when it recorded a vote of 4-7 on the first of three readings of an ordinance to partially decriminalize cannabis. While the resulting vote was different from a positive vote from the Memphis...

Lakeland - The City Commission chose not to buck the advice of municipal, county and state law enforcement officials by pursuing an ordinance to reduce the penalties for Lakeland Police Department's enforcement of minor marijuana possession. For more than five hours, city commissioners heard...

Toronto - Canada's marijuana industry could benefit after at least six states representing twice the population of Canada voted in favour of legalizing the drug, either recreationally or medically. Voters in California, Massachusetts and Nevada approved on Tuesday the use of recreational...

Elko — With the passing of the Question 2, Elko is still trying to figure out the impact the law will have for the city and the county. Question 2 approves recreational marijuana use and allows someone to carry up to an ounce of marijuana on them. The law also allows someone to grow up to six...

The recreational use of marijuana is now legal in California after voters on Tuesday approved Proposition 64. Here is what is now legal in California: California Votes to Legalize Recreational Use of Marijuana Anyone 21 and over can possess and smoke up to one ounce of marijuana...

Marijuana legalization has apparently failed in Arizona, with uncounted votes unlikely to turn the defeat into victory as they did with the state's medical-marijuana measure in 2010. As evidence mounts that the gulf between the "no" and "yes" votes on Prop 205 is too vast for the measure to...