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At its Tuesday meeting, the City Council is scheduled to discuss results of a local survey on marijuana in the post-Proposition 64 era, and make a few adjustments to local marijuana-related laws. On April 3, the city began an online outreach survey seeking residents' input on the...

Attitudes toward marijuana are in major flux these days, and some local lawmakers say trading plants for pills is a prescription for fighting the raging opioid epidemic. Others worry that medical marijuana spells trouble of a different sort and is really just a smoke screen enabling full-blown...

Pennsylvania voters have done a sharp about-face on marijuana, with a majority, 56 percent, now saying the drug should be legal, according to the latest Franklin and Marshall Poll, being released Thursday. Just under two years ago, 54 percent of F&M poll respondents were opposed to legalizing...

Marijuana proponents on Friday launched a 2018 ballot drive to make Michigan the ninth state to legalize the recreational use of the drug and the first in the Midwest to do so. The initiative has the backing of state-based marijuana advocacy groups and a key national lobbying organization, which...

Marijuana proponents on Friday launched a 2018 ballot drive to make Michigan the ninth state to legalize the recreational use of the drug and the first in the Midwest to do so. The initiative has the backing of state-based marijuana advocacy groups and a key national lobbying organization...

With solutions to Illinois' fiscal crisis seemingly blocked by partisan politics, it's time to start looking at new ideas. That's why we have introduced a bill to legalize the purchase of up to an ounce of marijuana, regulating and taxing it as we already do with alcohol. The revenues would help...

North Carolinians overwhelmingly want to see medical marijuana legalized, according to a new Elon University poll. Twenty-nine states have signed off on the medical use of marijuana, and a majority of North Carolina voters polled say they want their state to become the 30th — 80 percent say they...

Massachusetts voters believe federal officials should not enforce a ban on marijuana, according to a new poll from the Novus Group. US Attorney General Jeff Sessions opposes marijuana legalization as polling and voters show growing acceptance of the controversial substance across the country...

Sixty-one percent of Americans now say that it should be legal, a five-point increase from a year ago. A joint committee of House and Senate members heard how legalizing marijuana has impacted the state of Colorado where it is legal to buy small amounts for those older than 21. Despite a...

A new CBS News poll today finds that 61 percent of Americans feel pot should be legal - up five percent from previous year - and the highest percentage ever recorded in this poll. Millennials ages 18-34 overwhelmingly support recreational marijuana by 76 percent, while those ages 35-64 all...

Support for legalizing marijuana is at it's highest with U.S. voters across the political spectrum - whether Democrats, Republicans or independents, according to a new poll by the General Social Survey. Although a higher percentage of Democratic voters agreed marijuana should be legal in the...

Yorkville Police Chief Rich Hart is one of a growing chorus of law enforcement officials who are in favor of marijuana legalization, as long as it's regulated properly. "Prohibition just hasn't worked and it's never going to work," he said. "At this point, it's better if there's proper...

We're disappointed that White House press secretary Sean Spicer recently said "greater enforcement" of federal drug laws, including prohibition of marijuana, is coming. "There's a federal law that we need to abide by when it comes to recreational marijuana and other drugs of that nature," he...

Sonoma County voters overwhelmingly approved a proposed cannabis business tax Tuesday by nearly 3-to-1 on a measure that had no push by supporters and opposition from local marijuana growers. With ballots from all 358 precincts counted, Measure A – placed on the special election ballot by the...

Maryland marijuana activists are making another push for legalization this legislative session, even as the state struggles to launch its medical marijuana program four years after it became law. This year pot advocates have taken a different tack than in previous sessions: Instead of...

After a report was released estimating the impact of commercial Cannabis in Calaveras county a MyMotherLode poll asked: Do You Support the Commercial Cannabis in Calaveras with a production value of approx. $252 million in 2016? The three and a half day poll received over one-thousand votes with...

The attempt to legalize marijuana in New Mexico died Monday evening in the House Business and Industry Committee. House Bill 89, which would have established a regulatory framework for the legal production, processing and sales of marijuana and industrial hemp, was tabled following a debate...

An organization that represents Sonoma County marijuana growers has come out against a cannabis business tax set for a public vote in early March, altering the neutral position announced by the group last week. The nine-member board of the Sonoma County Growers Alliance voted Monday to oppose...

A household survey recently conducted by Simon Sanchez High School students found that 60 percent of Guam's adults oppose legalizing marijuana for recreational use. The advanced placement government students at Sanchez High polled 1,048 individuals older than 21 years of age. Of the 632...

When Jeff Patterson first created Eaze, an app service that allows medical marijuana patients to purchase home-delivered cannabis products from 100 different dispensaries across California, 80 percent of the marijuana products purchased through the app consisted of raw flower. But nearly three...