In his State of the State address Wednesday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) called on the legislature to reform the state’s marijuana laws. Marijuana possession has...
The votes this past November in Colorado and Washington to regulate marijuana for adults have sparked a fire of change that seems to be spreading across the...
Newly-appointed Bermuda Attorney General Mark Pettingill is calling for a debate about reforming the island nation’s marijuana laws. But he has stopped short of advocating any particular...
05:17pm Voters in Detroit overwhelmingly approved legalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana by adults on private property in last month’s elections, but according to Michigan...
An Arizona voter-approved law that decriminalizes the possession and sale of marijuana for medical uses isn’t pre-empted by the federal Controlled Substances Act, and therefore is not unconstitutional, a state...
A new study “California Youth Crime Plunges to All-Time Low” shows between 2010 and 2011, California experienced a drastic 20 percent decrease in juvenile crime, a level...
09:00pm Even as the Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephan Harper institutes harsher penalties for some marijuana offenses, a new poll finds that nearly two-thirds of...
An Argentine politician’s political career is at risk after she tweeted a photo of a cannabis plant in her Buenos Aires home. Gabriela Cerruti is being called a “drug pusher,”...
Arresting and prosecuting low-level marijuana offenders in New York City has little or no impact on law enforcement efforts to reduce violent crime, according to a study...
A 6-year study of Britain’s drug laws by the UK Drug Policy Commission, an independent advisory body of leading scientists, police officers, academics and experts has concluded it’s time for decriminalization and...
Flint police and Michigan State Police troopers that patrol the city plan to arrest people for marijuana possession despite a vote on a city ballot proposal to...
Weedists: Meet Diane Fornbacher “Weedists are the people who are out there fighting the good fight and these are their stories.” Diane Fornbacher has been a cannabis activist...
In addition to the historic Election Day votes in Colorado and Washington, voters in several cities in Massachusetts and Michigan also decided overwhelmingly in favor of ending marijuana prohibition....
04:23pm We’ve covered the two-out-three victories for the statewide marijuana legalization initiatives and we’ve covered the medical marijuana initiative victory in Massachusetts, but there was more...
04:11pm Support for marijuana legalization in British Columbia has reached a whopping 75%, according to a new Angus Reid poll commissioned by Stop the Violence BC, a coalition of...
With just one week left until the election, there have been some recent news to report on, including two new campaign ads and several new polls. WASHINGTON...
Voters in Arkansas, Colorado, Massachusetts, Montana, Oregon, and Washington will not be the only ones deciding on marijuana policy on Election Day. Voters in four Michigan cities...
While the discussion of marijuana policy may be noticeably absent from the current dialogue in the presidential race, one prominent Democratic Party member is not backing down...
