Delegates at Democratic party conventions in two separate states voted to add marijuana legalization planks to their official platforms this weekend. In Texas, Democrats embraced a...
A powerful U.S. Senate panel has moved to block an amendment to let marijuana businesses store their profits in banks. In a 21 – 10 vote, the Senate Appropriations Committee tabled...
Marijuana will officially be legal in Canada on October 17, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced in a speech before the House of Commons on Wednesday. In...
The U.S. Senate has before it an amendment that would direct the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to study the medical benefits of marijuana for military...
Support for marijuana legalization is at an all-time high across party lines, a new poll finds. Sixty-eight percent of American voters now want to end cannabis...
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...
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...