After about seven months of legislative debate, Canadian lawmakers approved a bill to fully legalize marijuana nationwide on Tuesday. Though the bill must still receive “royal...
Under current federal law, if you use marijuana—even in a state where it’s legal—you can be barred from federally assisted housing. But a bill introduced by...
Fully legalizing marijuana in New York is the right policy, state Health Commissioner Howard Zucker said in a press appearance with a group of medical cannabis providers...
A U.S. senator from a state where polls indicate his constituents will legalize medical marijuana this month is calling cannabis’s therapeutic value into question. “Marijuana is...
In January, Vermont became the ninth state to legalize marijuana—and the first to end cannabis prohibition through an act of lawmakers, rather than a ballot initiative....
Delegates at the Republican Party of Texas convention on Saturday voted to approve platform planks endorsing marijuana decriminalization, medical cannabis and industrial hemp. They are also...
A Senate committee that has historically supported marijuana reform measures released a report last week that included a misleading claim about the impact of cannabis legalization...
People of color have been disproportionately punished under decades of marijuana prohibition laws, but restrictive rules in many states largely block many communities that have been...
Attorney General Jeff Sessions repeated his anti-marijuana mantra in an interview with an Indiana radio host on Thursday, stating that cannabis remains illegal under federal law...
Protections for state medical marijuana laws and people complying with them have survived an attempt to gut the provisions in a key Senate committee. Earlier this...
