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Will 2018 be the year of citizen lawmaking? Utah voters could see as many as five statewide initiatives to change state laws on their ballots in the next general election. In a state where most elections have no initiatives, next year is shaping up as unique. All are about to begin the...

In-state harvesting of medical marijuana enjoys solid support among Georgia Republican voters, according to a poll released Monday by Rep. Allen Peake, the state Legislature's strongest backer of medical marijuana. The telephone poll of 511 likely Republican primary voters by the Tarrance...

Gov. Mary Fallin says she plans to set an election date for a medical marijuana ballot measure after the start of the new year. Supporters of an initiative petition to ask voters to legalize medical marijuana gathered enough signatures last year to schedule a statewide referendum on the...

The majority of registered voters in New York support the legalization of marijuana, according to a new poll released on Monday. The poll, which was commissioned by the Marijuana Policy Project and the Drug Policy Alliance and conducted by Emerson College, found that 62 percent of registered...

Voters in the Town of Ludlow have approved two amendments -- one to the general bylaws, the other to the zoning bylaws -- to permanently prohibit retail marijuana or cultivation facilities from setting up shop in this community of 21,000 residents. The votes took place at the special town...

The town has joined several nearby communities in banning facilities that would sell recreational marijuana. Without any discussion at Tuesday's Special Town Meeting, voters passed Articles 14 and 15 on the Town Meeting Warrant, which proposed the ban on marijuana facilities. The articles...

Voters in two states chose new governors on Tuesday. Both of those elections -- as well as the results of a number of local races across the country -- will have huge implications for efforts to legalize marijuana. Here's an overview of cannabis-specific ballot measures that voters approved...

At a Special Town Meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 24, Newbury voters rejected a temporary moratorium through 2018 on recreational marijuana cultivation and retail businesses. The moratorium was proposed to give town officials time to work on legal, planning, and public safety issues. Voters...

Marshfield voters at a special Town Meeting have rejected a ban on recreational marijuana facilities in their town. Acting town clerk Narice A. Casper said though most voters at the Oct. 16 session were in favor of the ban, the proposal failed to reach the necessary two-thirds majority with...

Voters in some parts of Alaska rejected efforts to ban commercial marijuana cultivation and retail sales, three years after the nation's largest state passed a voter initiative legalizing the recreational use of the drug. The votes this week came during local elections in the state's major...

Heading to the polls in force Tuesday, voters backed a ban on recreational marijuana shops and grow and testing facilities in town. The Milford Daily News reports the referendum, with 56.3 percent of voters supporting the prohibition, came less than a year after a majority of Milford voters...

A majority of New Jersey voters say they support marijuana use for recreational purposes, according to a new survey. A Quinnipiac University Poll published Thursday asked voters in the Garden State thoughts on a number of issues, from minimum wage and pot to Gov. Chris Christie and President...

Massachusetts voters have strong doubts about the state's ability to oversee the new law legalizing recreational pot, and most are concerned it will be influenced by politics, according to a new poll conducted by the Bernett Group for the Boston Herald. And despite overwhelming support for...

An August 10 public meeting to discuss five proposed ordinances, each one prohibiting one aspect of retail marijuana, drew about 17 people. Those who spoke, mostly spoke in favor of regulating but allowing some form of retail activity in Blue Hill. "We are not putting this up to promote...

Relief from pain may not be around the corner for those seeking pain relief with marijuana. Never mind that nearly three-fourths of Florida's voters agreed pot should be legal for medical use. At least six South Florida cities have banned, or plan to ban, the dispensaries where legal...

David Tunno's recent mailer smacks of abuse. It abuses my patience! He calls himself and his coterie of cronies "Save Our County," which is suggestive — it implies the county will sink into ruin without a marijuana ban. He talks about the suppression of the people's voice — YES or NO, yeah or...

The Legislature sent its rewrite of the voter-approved legal marijuana bill, with a higher tax rate and less power for voters, to the governor on Thursday, 255 days after about 1.8 million voters put the law on the books. House and Senate negotiators had planned to get a bill to Gov. Charlie...

Efforts to rewrite the Massachusetts marijuana laws hit a pothole Thursday night. Around 9 p.m., lawmakers at the State House headed home without a compromise bill to place on Gov. Charlie Baker's desk. "We haven't filed a bill yet, that you can see," said state Sen. William Brownsberger...

Britain will be left in the 'dope dark ages' if the Tory's win the General Election. That's according to a Teesside cannabis campaigner, who also feels voters should shun the Liberal Democrats - despite the party's pledge to legalize weed. Lib Dem chief Tim Farron's would allow the Class B...

Medical marijuana laws have been enacted in 29 states and the District of Columbia, and 21 states have decriminalized marijuana in a variety of ways. Unthinkable even a decade ago, eight states and the District have made legal the use of recreational marijuana. In a June 2015 Franklin &...