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The marijuana revolution continues to spread... this time in France. According to reports, Minister of the Interior Gérard Collomb revealed the country's plans to decriminalize possession of cannabis last week. Instead of prosecution and imprisonment, marijuana users would be slapped with a...

After years of failed legislative attempts, New Hampshire is now poised to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana. A bill reducing the penalties for possession is on its way to Republican Gov. Chris Sununu, who has indicated he plans to sign it. The measure would take effect within 60 days...

Proposition 64 legalized possession of up to one ounce of marijuana for adults, and went into effect on Nov. 8, when California voters approved the initiative measure. Since then, websites have sprouted up all over the Internet, directing cannabis users to sources of marijuana through delivery...

A Republican and three Democrats unveiled a bill Tuesday that would decriminalize possessing small amounts of marijuana, but quickly acknowledged the bill's grim fate in a GOP-controlled Legislature. "I'm not naive to think that we are going to probably pass this and get it signed into law,"...

A clear majority of Canadians want the federal government to issue pardons to fellow citizens who have a criminal record for marijuana possession, a new poll has found. The survey stands to buttress the call of marijuana activists, lawyers and politicians who argue that the old criminal...

Gov. Phil Scott has until the end of the day next Wednesday to decide whether to sign into law a bill that would legalize possession of marijuana. Senate Secretary John Bloomer delivered the bill, S.22, to the governor's office Thursday morning. By law, the governor has five days to respond...

State Sen. Vincent Fort on Monday implored the Atlanta City Council to move forward on a proposal to eliminate jail time and reduce the fines for possession of one ounce or less of marijuana in Georgia's capital. "It is a gateway drug to mass incarceration, mostly of young African Americans,"...

Time ran out in the Texas House late Thursday on a proposed law that would have reduced the penalty for possession of small amounts of marijuana in the state to below that of most traffic tickets. A midnight deadline passed without the full House taking up House Bill 81 for initial...

The push to reduce the penalties attached to marijuana is getting easier and easier to see in Texas. A new TV ad featuring cancer survivor Heather Jackson and Dallas Police Officer Nick Novello will soon begin airing in parts of the Lone Star State. "Arresting people for marijuana possession...

Atlanta's city council is contemplating making a smart move by decriminalizing marijuana possession (up to an ounce) within city limits. The current ludicrous threat of jail time would be replaced with a paltry $75 fine. Many say Atlanta has a major policing problem along racial lines–more...

It took statewide decriminalization to get Chicago cops to stop arresting mostly black Chicagoans for possession of small amounts of weed. Late last July, on the day Governor Bruce Rauner signed into law a statewide decriminalization measure barring cops from criminally charging individuals...

There were 19,730 people arrested in Pennsylvania last year for having less than 30 grams of marijuana. That is equal to heroin, cocaine, meth, opiates, and all other drug possession arrests combined, according to my new review of data in the Pennsylvania Uniform Crime Reporting System...

Back in August, State College Borough Council approved an ordinance that allowed State College Police to charge possession of a small amount of marijuana as a summary offense instead of as a misdemeanor. After being in practice for about six months, council has made some tweaks. At Monday...

On Friday, the PLP will table the 'Decriminalisation of Cannabis Bill 2017′ which proposes measures including decriminalizing the possession of cannabis under the statutory minimum of 7 grams, Shadow Attorney-General Michael Scott said today. Mr Scott said, "The Bill consists of 5 clauses...

Richmond — Virginians convicted of marijuana possession would no longer automatically lose their driver's license for six months under legislation moving through the General Assembly. Existing state law mandates that when someone is convicted of a drug offense, the defendant's license is...

Two proposals sponsored by state representatives and senators from both major parties in the Wyoming Legislature would draw a line between misdemeanor and felony amounts of marijuana products such as edibles while also reducing the maximum penalty for misdemeanor marijuana possession to a fine...

Politically, Virginia has come to be viewed as somewhat "purple," a mixture of southern conservatism and liberalizing suburbs, and weed activists now see it at the tipping point for legal marijuana. But could it go green? Probably not all at once. The Arlington County Civic Federation, made up...

On Jan. 1, DeKalb decriminalized the possession of up to 10 grams of cannabis. "I've definitely heard about [cannabis] on the news, how it's getting legalized," Christina Edmunds, sophomore computer science major, said. "As long as people [who] use it are safe with it, I don't see a problem."...

Counties across Pennsylvania are arresting people for marijuana possession at record levels even as police departments in the Commonwealth's largest cities are adopting decriminalization procedures. So why are arrests increasing? To find out, I crunched data, made nice charts, and asked local...

Albany - Gov. Andrew Cuomo is making another pitch for the state to decriminalize possession of some marijuana. Cuomo quietly included the proposal in a 380-page State of the State message that he provided late Wednesday to the State Legislature. "The illegal sale of marijuana cannot and...