marijuana

Citizens in California voted for the approval of marijuana for recreational use on Tuesday. Also called Proposition 64, it will have an impact on 40 million people living in California, where marijuana will be regulated like alcohol, rather than treated like a criminal enterprise. Colorado...

Boston — Voters in Massachusetts have approved a ballot measure legalizing marijuana for general use by adults, a big step toward nullifying the unconstitutional federal prohibition of cannabis in effect. With 64 percent of the precincts reporting, Tenth Amendment Center projects Question 4...

Tallahassee, Fla. - 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...

Tallahassee, Fla. - 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...

Enfield, CT - Massachusetts has become the first eastern U.S. state to approve the recreational use of marijuana. It's approval could impact Connecticut, where it remains illegal except for medical use. Massachusetts' initiative allows people over the age of 21 to have, use and grow pot in...

Fargo - More than half the states in the United States of America have legalized some form of medical marijuana. North Dakota is one of them. Voters decided to pass Initiated Statutory Measure 5, or the North Dakota Medical Marijuana Legalization Initiative, on Tuesday. The measure...

Fargo - More than half the states in the United States of America have legalized some form of medical marijuana. North Dakota is one of them. Voters decided to pass Initiated Statutory Measure 5, or the North Dakota Medical Marijuana Legalization Initiative, on Tuesday. The measure...

Proposition 64, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, was supported by several members of the San Diego State community. At press time, the measure was favored with 56 percent of voters approving the measure, with 47 percent of the votes counted. Marketing senior Shaylenne Martin said she was "not...

Election night brought several astonishing, wholly unforeseen results. But let's put the presidential campaign aside for a second and talk about weed. Marijuana was on the ballot in nine states on Tuesday. Voters in eight of those states went to the polls and approved measures to roll back...

Voters in Bend approved the city's first sales tax, a 3 percent tax on recreational marijuana. Madras and La Pine voters also approved 3 percent sale taxes on pot after bans on marijuana failed. Right now, there is a 25 percent state sales tax on recreational marijuana, but that will drop...

Los Angeles - The marijuana legalization movement scored its biggest victory yet Tuesday as voters in California, Massachusetts and Nevada approved recreational pot, making the drug fully legal in the nation's most populous state and giving it a toehold in the densely populated Northeast...

Benton City voters were slightly favoring allowing marijuana stores and growers in their city in the initial ballot count Tuesday. The difference is 20 votes with 311 votes for allowing pot businesses and 291 opposing. Proposition 16-9 was on the ballot to advise the Benton City Council on...

Nearly half of the US has already legalized marijuana in some form, and before Election Day, four states allowed recreational use and sales. On November 8, another three states voted in favor of outright marijuana legalization: California, Nevada, and Massachusetts all just voted in favor of...

Medical marijuana supporters convinced voters to let dispensaries back into the city, but Long Beach will be able to tax medical marijuana transactions at higher rates than advocates had wanted, according to election results Tuesday. With all precincts reporting, Measure MM clinched victory...

San Francisco - California, Massachusetts and Nevada legalized marijuana on Tuesday in what advocates said was a reflection of the country's changing attitude toward the drug. Leading up to the election, recreational marijuana use was legal in four states: Alaska, Colorado, Oregon and...

I came across two cannabis stories this weekend. The first was about Colorado, the epicenter of the legalization movement, which saw 18,000 new jobs and $2.4 billion in economic activity thanks to taxing and regulating marijuana. The other was about Humboldt County, California, the epicenter of...

Adelanto - Long-time medical marijuana proponent Johnny Salazar admitted Monday he may have "jumped the gun" after opening a dispensary last week with a business permit that city officials say doesn't authorize such a facility. Salazar invited the Daily Press to his roughly 3,500-square-foot...

Regardless of the fate of Questions 200 and 300 in today's election, Colorado State University-Pueblo's fledgling Institute of Cannabis Research will be taking on important and relevant work. Remember, marijuana will remain legal in Colorado even if Pueblo voters pass one or both of the ballot...

A long-awaited rule change adopted recently by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court removed an ethical risk at the state level for lawyers who handle matters related to medical marijuana. Pennsylvania lawyers may now work with their medical marijuana clients without fear of action by the state's...

A long-awaited rule change adopted recently by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court removed an ethical risk at the state level for lawyers who handle matters related to medical marijuana. Pennsylvania lawyers may now work with their medical marijuana clients without fear of action by the state's...