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After Question 2 passed in Tuesday's election, recreational marijuana is set to become legal in Nevada in a matter of weeks. The ballot initiative passed by a margin of eight points: 54 percent to 46 percent. "Obviously the majority of Nevada are very excited about the opportunity," Tanya...

Before Prop. 64 passed last week and legalized recreational marijuana use in California, Brea had prohibitions in place against its sale and outdoor cultivation. The City Council put a 45-day moratorium in place on Nov. 1 to give city leaders time to address legalization. "It puts some...

Reno, Nev. - Nevadans voted to legalize recreational marijuana on Election Day. The law takes effect January 1, 2017; but that doesn't mean people will be able to walk into a dispensary and purchase marijuana on New Year's Day. "Nevadans can legally start smoking, possessing, and having one...

Huntington - Huntington voters overwhelmingly approved a city sales tax on sales of recreational marijuana in the Tuesday's General Election, but it was not the only community in eastern Oregon where the issue was on the ballot. According to numbers posted on Baker County's website, the vote...

Portland, Ore. - Oregon's burgeoning marijuana industry could face a significant threat under President-Elect Donald Trump's administration. While Trump has said he would leave legalization for states to decide, the New York tycoon appeared poised Wednesday to appoint New Jersey Gov. Chris...

Marijuana votes in Oregon offered some surprises, including an embrace of recreational marijuana sales in some conservative enclaves — but the biggest trend by far was for communities to cash in on the lucrative cop. Places like Albany, Oregon City, Manzanita and Scappoose were among the...

A fractious and consequential presidential election can obscure all other news, but Texans also should take note of a pivotal night when marijuana gained legal ground in a big way. Voters in California, Nevada, Massachusetts and Maine approved it for recreational use, doubling the number of...

The marijuana market is about to boom. Voters in four states approved legal recreational pot on Tuesday. Four more states expanded access to medical marijuana. All told, it could expand the national market to $21 billion by 2020, according to New Frontier Data, which partnered with the...

Boston — Massachusetts is now the only state on the East Coast to legalize recreational marijuana, but top state leaders are already pondering changes to the new law. Senate President Stanley Rosenberg (D-Amherst) told 22News that changes could be necessary as new data comes in from states...

Voters in Maine have approved a ballot question that legalizes recreational marijuana for adults 21 or over, The Associated Press reported Thursday. Question 1 makes it legal for a person 21 or older to use marijuana. The state will put a 10% sales tax on the drug and allow social clubs and...

On Tuesday night, even as Democrats recoiled in horror at the election of Donald Trump, American voters in several states loudly rejected marijuana prohibition. California, Massachusetts, Nevada, and Maine all passed referenda legalizing recreational use. And Florida, North Dakota Arkansas and...

The recreational use of marijuana is now legal in California after voters on Tuesday approved Proposition 64. Here is what is now legal in California: California Votes to Legalize Recreational Use of Marijuana Anyone 21 and over can possess and smoke up to one ounce of marijuana...

Denver - Thanks to last night's elections Colorado will no longer be the go to state for marijuana jokes. California, Nevada and Massachusetts all voted to legalize recreational weed. Those additions mean big business for marijuana companies looking to expand. The largest economies in the world...

Tuesday night California, Massachusetts, and Nevada joined Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, Washington state and Washington D.C. in legalizing the recreational use of marijuana. Similarly, medical use referenda passed in Florida, North Dakota and Arkansas, making the 2016 election the biggest...

Carlsbad - Ralph Rider of Carlsbad describes the pain in his body as pins and needles. "I can't hardly walk in the morning until I medicate," Rider, a permitted medical marijuana user, said. Pain from neuropathy, as well as residual symptoms from a stroke and heart attack in 2013, were...

Carlsbad - Ralph Rider of Carlsbad describes the pain in his body as pins and needles. "I can't hardly walk in the morning until I medicate," Rider, a permitted medical marijuana user, said. Pain from neuropathy, as well as residual symptoms from a stroke and heart attack in 2013, were...

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...

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...

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...