Category: Law & Politics

A bipartisan group of Pennsylvania state senators has introduced Senate Bill 1182, the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Act. This is the first time in recent Pennsylvania...

Opposing Views covers Bill Murray’s Ask Me Anything on Reddit, in which he states that the war on drugs is a failure.

In a profile published online over the weekend in New Yorker magazine, President Barack Obama continued his softening towards marijuana legalization. In the interview, the president alluded...

While it is absolutely amazing that Colorado (already has) and Washington (sometime this year) are opening up recreational marijuana retail shops, I am concerned with how the...

With Illinois officials working out the kinks of the new medical marijuana law, pharmacists have shown interest in dispensing the meds.

Residents of the District of Columbia favor legalizing marijuana for adults, according to the findings of a Washington Post poll, released Wednesday. Sixty-three percent of respondents said...

Special to the Chronicle by Bernd Debusmann, Jr., who is currently studying for an MA in International Journalism at City University London. Prior to that, he lived and worked...

For the second time, activists were detained at Six Flags in Arlington, Texas for wearing pro-marijuana shirts.

The city council of Italian city of Turin has approved a motion in favor of legalizing cannabis on Tuesday, becoming the first major city in the country...

Action is really picking up as state legislatures get back into session. Meanwhile, the long battle over regulating medical marijuana in California continues. Let’s get to it:...

After a heated and lengthy debate on the floor of the New Hampshire General Assembly, the lower chamber of New Hampshire’s legislature today voted 170 to 162...

This week, we have a trio of jail guards gone bad, as well as another cop with a pain pill problem and sticky fingers. That’s a bad...

Adults, from parents to baby boomers, are lining up to purchase recreational cannabis in Colorado. Many are giving marijuana a try for the first time ever or...

The Wyoming chapter of NORML submitted a proposed initiative to the WY Secretary of State’s Office for voters to decide in the 2016 election, but it must clear hurdles...

Building on steadily increasing public support, a coalition of marijuana policy reformers are looking to 2016 to get an initiative on the Massachusetts ballot to make marijuana legal...

Michael Bolen encourages politicians and media to stop pretending cannabis prohibition protects kids.

The possession of small amounts of marijuana in the nation’s capital could soon be no more than a ticketable offense. A decriminalization bill is set to move...

Dane County, Wisconsin is putting a non-binding question to voters this spring, asking residents if they want marijuana legalized.

Entrepreneur’s Brian Patrick Eha describes the history, hopes and truths of America’s legal marijuana market.

Ladybud profiles The Undergreen Railroad, a new organization forming in response to a need that is becoming more and more common: help in relocating cannabis consumers to a...