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It's unclear whether a Donald Trump administration will kill pot advocates' vibe after their landslide victory on Tuesday. Nine different states voted on marijuana-related ballot initiatives - four considered legal medical marijuana and five chose whether to legalize recreational marijuana...

As the dust settles on the results of the 2016 general election, two New England states are en route to establishing legalized, regulated marijuana systems. Massachusetts and Maine are among four states across the country where voters approved ballot initiatives to legalize recreational pot...

Seven of the eight passed. "The new law focuses on undoing the most egregious harms of marijuana prohibition, which have disproportionately impacted communities of color", says Lynne Lyman from the Drug Policy Alliance, according to the Los Angeles Times. In Florida, medical marijuana passed...

The election of Donald Trump has raised concerns on a seemingly endless number of fronts. Note that the day after he defeated Hillary Clinton in the presidential race, immigrant children were in tears at schools across Denver out of fear that their undocumented parents would be deported before...

On November 10, the International Association of Political Consultants, which is holding its annual gathering in Denver, offered a panel on The Politics of Marijuana. Four experts from various areas of the cannabis industry addressed an audience of about forty, describing how consultants can...

After four more states voted to approve legalization of marijuana Tuesday, it appears the Department of Transportation will stand by its previous stance that using marijuana is forbidden for truck drivers as long as it remains a Schedule I drug. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration...

In recent years, marijuana has become far less taboo in American society. Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Alaska and Washington D.C. have legislation making it legal to tax, sell and use marijuana recreationally, and more than half the states have medical marijuana programs that are incredibly...

Voters in four more states decided this week they want marijuana legalized for sale to adults ages 21 and older, including the first two east of the Mississippi River: Massachusetts and Maine. Pennsylvania, meanwhile, continues to make progress on the rollout of medical cannabis, and is...

Voters in four more states decided this week they want marijuana legalized for sale to adults ages 21 and older, including the first two east of the Mississippi River: Massachusetts and Maine. Pennsylvania, meanwhile, continues to make progress on the rollout of medical cannabis, and is...

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...

Toronto - Canada's marijuana industry could benefit after at least six states representing twice the population of Canada voted in favour of legalizing the drug, either recreationally or medically. Voters in California, Massachusetts and Nevada approved on Tuesday the use of recreational...

In the aftermath of a new set of states legalizing marijuana use in the national elections, the NFL Players Association said Wednesday it is actively studying the possibility of allowing players to use marijuana as a pain-management tool. The union is forming an NFL players pain management...

Cannabis activists around the world have watched legalization measures in nine U.S. states this election season with some envy. Apart from Switzerland, no European country has provisions that allow voters to directly change laws via initiative, as many American states do. It's a big reason why...

This year's election season was historic in more ways than one. An unprecedented nine states considered liberalizing cannabis laws, and here's how it broke down: California, Massachusetts and Nevada saw their ballot measures pass. If Maine's ballot measure is also approved, that would bring the...

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...

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...

Colorado's Steel City is now surrounded by the state's "Napa Valley of Weed." At least 22 stores, 92 grow sites and 31 manufacturing facilities are licensed in the county, Colorado Department of Revenue records show. And Pueblo County was the state's highest producer of retail marijuana plants...

Massachusetts appears poised to legalize recreational marijuana - and it's not alone. Four other states take a similar vote this Tuesday on ballot initiatives with near-identical language. In the Bay State, Ballotpedia summarizes the measure like this: A "yes" vote supports this proposal to...

Millions of voters across the United States are considering measures to roll back longstanding restrictions on marijuana this Election Day. By the end of Tuesday night, five more states could fully legalize weed, which would put nearly one-quarter of the nation's population in areas that have...

I must be the most maladapted pothead in Maine. Since 2013, I have had a Maine medical marijuana authorization card, for treating painful nerve damage in my elbows and hands. The thing is, though, I don't actually like being high; it makes me feel a little sad, a little disengaged. I like...