marijuana

Yesterday Nevada voters, who approved medical marijuana by a margin of nearly 2 to 1 in 2000, finally decided to legalize marijuana for recreational use as well. With 46 percent of precincts reporting, the state's legalization initiative, Question 2, is favored by 54 percent of voters, and ABC...

Stunning even some of the proposal's most avid supporters, Florida voters Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment legalizing medical marijuana for patients with a broad swath of conditions. Amendment 2, "Use of Marijuana for Debilitating Medical Conditions," received at...

Stunning even some of the proposal's most avid supporters, Florida voters Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment legalizing medical marijuana for patients with a broad swath of conditions. Amendment 2, "Use of Marijuana for Debilitating Medical Conditions," received at...

It's been more than a month since the City of Victoria implemented its new cannabis laws, but now council is looking at allowing onsite consumption in some compassion clubs. During a meeting Thursday, council passed a motion to have city staff look at exempting existing non-profit cannabis...

With Florida voters approving a constitutional amendment to expand the use of medical marijuana, Brevard County commissioners are preparing to formulate rules for where those marijuana dispensaries can be located. Commissioners have directed the county's Planning and Development Department to...

With Florida voters approving a constitutional amendment to expand the use of medical marijuana, Brevard County commissioners are preparing to formulate rules for where those marijuana dispensaries can be located. Commissioners have directed the county's Planning and Development Department to...

Trenton - Voters from California, Nevada and Massachusetts passed ballot initiatives legalizing marijuana on Tuesday, expanding the lucrative market to the nation's most populous state and the northeast while creating greater momentum supporters say will end the drug's prohibition. Voters in...

Election Day was a watershed moment for marijuana legalization. Recreational marijuana is now legal in seven states - Maine has yet to be called - as well as Washington D.C. 24 states have varying forms of medical marijuana laws on the books. President-elect Donald Trump will have to...

Californians overwhelmingly said yes to recreational marijuana on Election Day. Those in favor of the decision owe a big thanks to billionaire Silicon Valley fixture Sean Parker. The former Facebook president and founder of Napster contributed $8.5 million to the effort to legalize...

Longmont, Colo. - Tom couldn't sleep. After six years in the U.S. Navy, he found himself in the civilian world unable to readjust from his time on a ship, when a commanding officer would often wake up the sailors every few hours. He tried prescription sleep aids, but nothing really worked...

Longmont, Colo. - Tom couldn't sleep. After six years in the U.S. Navy, he found himself in the civilian world unable to readjust from his time on a ship, when a commanding officer would often wake up the sailors every few hours. He tried prescription sleep aids, but nothing really worked...

Californians voted to legalize the recreational use of marijuana on Election Day. But nonmedical sales are still a ways away. Proposition 64 provides for over a dozen types of licenses issued to marijuana-selling dispensaries that allows them to cultivate, test, distribute, and sell bud...

Denver - Marijuana's overwhelming success at the ballot box Tuesday dumps a California-sized pile of pressure onto the federal government to answer a fairly basic question: Where are they going to put all that cash? Because marijuana remains illegal at the federal level, banks refuse to give...

Election Day dealt another body blow to our nation's costly, failed, and discriminatory policy of marijuana prohibition. If anyone thought our victories in 2012 and 2014 were a passing fad, it is now clear that they were mistaken. With adult use meaures being approved in four states (CA, MA, ME...

Phoenix, Ariz. — Voters in Arizona failed to approve a ballot measure legalizing marijuana for general use by adults. Arizona Proposition 205 lost by a 52.1 to 47.9 percent margin. Passage of Prop 205 would have made it legal for adults 21 years or older to possess and use one ounce or...

San Francisco - Americans across the country voted Tuesday for the right to inhale without going to jail, legalizing recreational marijuana in four states, and medical marijuana in three others. In California, where medical marijuana is already legal, voters approved recreational pot, a major...

To put it bluntly: Preliminary results indicate that voters defeated Propositions 200 and 300, keeping the commercial marijuana industry in Pueblo County alive and legal. If the large margins hold up in today's vote counting, the victory for retail marijuana supporters will put an end - at...

Phoenix - Arizonans were rejecting the ballot proposition that would legalize marijuana use in the state. Proposition 205 was losing 54 percent to 46 percent in early statewide voting. The vote on Proposition 205 comes six years after Arizonans narrowly agreed to allow those with certain...

California has decided to light up: The state became the biggest in the U.S. to legalize recreational marijuana use on Tuesday. Proposition 64, which greenlights pot use for adults over 21 starting in 2018, looked set to pass with a 55 percent majority, according to early vote totals. The...

Antioch - The city temporarily has banned some uses of non-medical marijuana that would be allowed under a state ballot measure to buy itself time while deciding how to regulate the drug. Antioch councilmembers unanimously agreed Tuesday to an urgency ordinance that places a moratorium on...