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Sonoma County voters in March are being asked to approve a tax on cannabis cultivation, which officials say will help pay for the impacts of growing the crop that was recently legalized for recreational use. Known as Measure A on the March 7 ballot, it faces little opposition as a key...

A new analysis shows November's statewide ballot measure legalizing recreational marijuana got strong support across the county that wasn't reliant on low-frequency voters casting ballots because of the presidential race. The measure, Proposition 64, got majority support in 16 of the county's...

Calaveras County Elections officials this week began an initial count of signatures submitted in support of a ballot measure that seeks to ban commercial cannabis cultivation. Elections Coordinator Robin Glanville said that next week, staff members will begin verifying a sample of 500...

Massachusetts lawmakers on Beacon Hill on Wednesday, December 28, passed a measure to delay portions of the recently approved ballot question legalizing recreational marijuana. The move has prompted frustration, even outrage, for pro-legalization advocates who believe the Legislature violated...

Humboldt County's top cannabis-growing regions were unanimous in their opposition to California's second attempt to legalize nonmedical marijuana through Proposition 64 in November. But unlike the first legalization attempt in 2010 with Proposition 19, Humboldt County's population centers were...

North Dakota voters overwhelmingly voted to approve Initiated Statutory Measure No. 5, known as the medical marijuana law, in the recent election. The measure passed with a 64 percent statewide majority, the same percentage as totaled in Ward County. State law says initiated measures must be...

Voters still favor allowing the growing and selling of marijuana in Benton city by a margin of 52 percent in favor and 48 percent opposed. If approved, the Benton city council would still need to make a decision to approve the advisory measure. If approved, Benton city would be only the...

Denver - A glass of wine with dinner? Or maybe some marijuana? Denver voters have approved a first-in-the-nation law allowing willing bars and restaurants to give patrons the option to use marijuana alongside a cocktail or meal. The catch: Smoking pot won't be allowed inside, and the...

Bismarck - North Dakota residents won access to medical marijuana in Tuesday's election following the passage of Measure 5, but it's unclear how soon patients will be able to buy the drug. The measure included a provision for a 30-day window for the North Dakota Department of Health to build...

On Tuesday, Proposition 64 passed by 17 points making California the largest state in the country to legalize recreational marijuana. Now comes the hard part. Public officials have the herculean task of pulling a billion-dollar industry into the mainstream economy. The Los Angeles City...

The potential impact of Proposition 64 and legalized recreational marijuana in California was driven home by more than 50 city and county measures that set rules for taxing, regulating and governing the pot trade at a community level. Voters in diverse regions across California overwhelmingly...

California has joined a growing trend across the country by legalizing the recreational use of marijuana and hemp. By passing Proposition 64, Californians over 21 years of age can now legally smoke marijuana privately, and can have up to 28.5 grams of marijuana and up to 8 grams of...

Helena - Montana voters may have successfully reversed severe restrictions state lawmakers imposed on medical marijuana, but patients will have to wait nearly eight months before they can step into a dispensary again. That's when the most important portion of a citizen's initiative passed in...

Costa Mesa — Voters looked to be ushering in changes in how city leaders are elected and developments are approved, and were taking a more accepting stance on medical marijuana, according to early election results Tuesday night. Residents faced 10 ballot measures Tuesday, ranging from one...

Voters on Tuesday night appeared to have soundly defeated a measure written by marijuana growers to regulate the cannabis industry in the county, opposing the initiative by 65.4 percent to 34.6 as of midnight, with 19.8 percent of ballots counted. Separately, voters seemed likely to...

Measure D, a voter initiative to establish permanent regulation for cannabis businesses in Calaveras County, was defeated Tuesday with 9,479 (54 percent) voting no, and 8,023 (46 percent) voting yes. Although the text of the measure primarily addresses issues such as zoning for cannabis...

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...

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...

The results of today's marijuana legalization ballot initiatives will set the stage for the next four years of American drug policy. If California and a number of other states legalize the recreational use of the drug, many observers, including President Obama, say that the a strict federal pot...