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With solutions to Illinois' fiscal crisis seemingly blocked by partisan politics, it's time to start looking at new ideas. That's why we have introduced a bill to legalize the purchase of up to an ounce of marijuana, regulating and taxing it as we already do with alcohol. The revenues would help...

Massachusetts voters believe federal officials should not enforce a ban on marijuana, according to a new poll from the Novus Group. US Attorney General Jeff Sessions opposes marijuana legalization as polling and voters show growing acceptance of the controversial substance across the country...

Support for legalizing marijuana is at it's highest with U.S. voters across the political spectrum - whether Democrats, Republicans or independents, according to a new poll by the General Social Survey. Although a higher percentage of Democratic voters agreed marijuana should be legal in the...

Florida voters who heartily approved important amendments to the state Constitution can only wonder how the will of the people is being strangled by the obstructionist toils of the Republican-led Legislature. Lawmakers insist they are merely refining details for measures approved by voters on...

Colorado voters favor limiting the number of marijuana plants that can be grown at home, according to a survey obtained by Colorado Politics. There is broad support for limiting home grows to 12 plants, according to the Keating Research poll, which was conducted between March 8-13. Colorado...

Kansas City, Mo. – The Kansas City Council on Thursday voted to include a question about reducing pot possession fines on the April ballot. The decision received 12 affirmative votes and one dissenting vote from Mayor Sly James. Today's approval was procedural. The group gathering signatures...

Framingham - Saying they won't stand in the way of Massachusetts voters, selectmen on Tuesday refused to back efforts by a municipal lobbying group to slow the implementation of the state's new recreational marijuana law. Members of the board voted unanimously to withhold their support from a...

Voters favour legalising cannabis for medicinal use by a margin of almost seven to one, the latest Irish Times/Ipsos opinion poll finds. The massive majority in favour of the move comes after a Dáil motion on the issue last week and a commitment by the Government to examine the issue in the...

Retail shops selling marijuana may not open in Massachusetts until the middle of 2018 - or later - if lawmakers engaged in ongoing backroom discussions succeed in delaying parts of the legalization measure recently approved by voters, according to two people familiar with the conversations...

It's time for opponents of legalization to stop campaigning against the new law to tax and regulate marijuana ("Ways to salvage marijuana law," Shirley Leung, Business, Nov. 16). The voters have spoken, and the state should implement the ballot initiative as written. Repeating the scare tactics...

Marijuana advocates got a mixed bag of results on election night. Well, actually, they were mostly good except for one that could spoil the rest: Donald Trump's victory and the possibility his administration would move to put an end to the country's now well-established cannabis industry...

Idaho Freedom Foundation Executive Director Wayne Hoffman wrote Monday that Idaho lawmakers should revisit the state's marijuana laws. Hoffman's column comes days after Nevada voters agreed to authorize the possession and sale of recreational marijuana, with the new law taking effect Jan. 1...

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, Maine - A larger-than-expected number of overseas absentee ballots will play a big role in deciding whether marijuana becomes legal in Maine. The final results in the close race still hadn't been tabulated on Thursday. The secretary of state's office said the biggest remaining bloc...

Costa Mesa — Voters looked to be ushering in changes in how city leaders are elected and developments are approved, and were taking a more accepting stance on medical marijuana, according to early election results Tuesday night. Residents faced 10 ballot measures Tuesday, ranging from one...

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...

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...

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...

Among likely voters in Massachusetts, support for marijuana legalization is at 61 percent, the latest survey from Western New England University Polling Institute says. Thirty-four percent said they opposed Question 4, which would legalize marijuana for recreational and commercial use by...

Denver - Nearly 60 million Americans may wake up Nov. 9 to find voters in their states have abolished long-standing marijuana prohibitions, a three-fold expansion for legal cannabis across the country. Another 24 million Americans could find themselves in states with newly legal medical...