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Nearly a quarter of Americans will live in areas where recreational marijuana use is legal if voters approve initiatives on Tuesday permitting the recreational use of cannabis in California, Massachusetts and three other states. With pot already legal for use by adults in four states and the...

In just two days approximately 219 million registered voters across our country will be heading to the polls to decide who'll become the 45th president of the United States. Regardless of who they choose to lead our great country, the decision will be historic. However, Nov. 8 is a critical...

The war on drugs has disproportionately punished minority groups and the less fortunate for decades. Now, with five states set to vote on legalizing and regulating the recreational use and sale of marijuana on Nov. 8, the cannabis industry is using newfound support to undo the harm caused by the...

In the shadow of one of the most divisive presidential elections in our country's history, a second plot line could have big consequences for cities around the United States. Voters in nine states are considering expanding access to legal marijuana on Tuesday, November 8. Five states will vote...

Legislation easing legal restrictions on marijuana usage will be put to a "yes" or "no" vote in ballot initiatives in nine states on Nov. 8, with five of those states deciding whether to legalize its cultivation and consumption for recreational purposes. Legalization stands a good chance of...

Arizona's Prop. 205 makes recreational pot legal for adults 21 and older, allowing them to use, possess, manufacture and give away or transport up to an ounce of marijuana. Twenty-five states have already approved medical marijuana. Freedman: Basically the criminal side of it has seen how...

By most accounts, the marijuana industry is growing like a weed. Since California became the first state to legalize medical cannabis in 1996, two dozen additional states have also legalized medical pot, and four states - Colorado, Washington, Oregon, and Alaska - along with Washington, D.C...

One-quarter of the United States - and all the residents of the West Coast - could have access to recreational marijuana after Election Day, when five states will vote whether to join Oregon in legalizing cannabis. Next week, voters in Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada will...

New research conducted by Columbia University's Mailman School for Public Health suggests that the availability of medical marijuana may reduce the use of opioid drugs. The study concluded that fewer people were killed in car accidents who tested positive for opioids (even prescription opioids)...

New research conducted by Columbia University's Mailman School for Public Health suggests that the availability of medical marijuana may reduce the use of opioid drugs. The study concluded that fewer people were killed in car accidents who tested positive for opioids (even prescription opioids)...

U.S. voters next month in five states, including bellwether California, are poised to expand the legal use of recreational marijuana to almost a quarter of the American population, a move that could prove to be one of the most consequential shifts in U.S drug policy since the 1930s. Passage...

Business owners are replacing idealists in the pot-legalization movement as the nascent marijuana industry creates a broad base of new donors, many of them entrepreneurs willing to spend to change drug policy. Unlike in the past, these supporters are not limited to a few wealthy people...

The following is an excerpt from the new book Marijuana: A Short History by John Hudak (Brookings Institution Press, 2016): As marijuana legalization proceeds, new issues will arise and the pressure to deal with existing issues will increase. How local, state, and federal governments as well as...

A record 60 percent national support is giving marijuana activists hope for victories this election in legalizing marijuana for recreational use in five states. Five states are putting recreational marijuana legalization on the ballot for this November, with an additional four states voting...

Fall River - We are either facing the end of the world or utopia, depending on whom you ask. Either way, both pro and con forces say life will change based on the vote for referendum question four, which asks if Massachusetts should legalize the recreational use of marijuana. Proponents say...

In rural Klickitat County in southwestern Washington state, a trio of thriving farms point the way toward a better future for an area where the economy has struggled over the years, in part due to the shuttering of a local aluminum smelting plant. But those farms don't grow wheat, wine grapes...

Six years ago, my legendarily goofball home state of California, which introduced the medical marijuana loophole to the world back in 1996, was on the verge of rejecting the first honest-to-goodness attempt in at legalizing recreational weed in the 21st century. In a last-ditch effort to rally...

New York State Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo received the National Legislator of the Year Award from the industrial hemp advocacy organization Vote Hemp at a Hemp Industry Association conference last month. Lupardo, who represents the state's 123rd Assembly District, which includes Binghamton...

The legal use of marijuana could increase substantially by the end of the year as several U.S. states, including California, vote on its use for recreational or medical purposes. This could open new markets for insurance coverage in areas including property and casualty and health. However...

Up to five states could approve adult-use cannabis laws on Nov. 8, which could mark a global inflection point for the civil liberty issue. The Atlantic's Rusell Berman notes California is virtually its own nation-state, and is polling in the high 50s on legalization Proposition 64. "Beyond...