Adults in Washington state will be able to smoke marijuana legally on Thursday, even though the Justice Department has offered no guidance on the conflict with federal...

However pot’s future is going to play out in this country, its recent path to limited legalization has interesting parallels to alcohol, which was banned by the...

Driving around with a friend after work last night, he flipped on the radio to 107.1, expecting the electronic dance music that usually plays on there. What...

The Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks play in states where marijuana is now legal, a massive potential legal and public relations headache for the NFL. This could have implications for where...

by Sabrina Fendrick, NORML Women’s Alliance, November 30, 2012 Patricia Spottedcrow, an Oklahoma woman who was sentenced to 12 years for selling $31 worth of pot, with...

02:59pm A CBS News poll released this week has support for marijuana legalization at an all-time high, with as many Americans now saying it should be legal as...

United States Representatives have introduced bipartisan legislation in Congress — House Bill 6606, The Respect States’ and Citizens’ Rights Act of 2012 — to amend the US Controlled...

Hello Kitty is a defining piece of Japanese pop culture. Originally introduced by Sanrio Co. Ltd. into the Japanese market in 1974, Hello Kitty was brought to...

03:14pm A new Angus-Reid Public Opinion poll has majorities favoring marijuana legalization in both Canada and the US. According to the poll, 57% of Canadians and 54% of...

According to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), if medical marijuana patients’ paperwork checks out, they can board a flight with meds in tow as long as they are headed...

Members of the NORML Legal Committee (NLC) have filed a friend-of-the-court amicus brief in the case of Commonwealth v. Antonio Pacheco, scheduled for oral argument in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) at 9:00...

Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch wants zoning commissioners to speed up economic growth and that includes approving a medical marijuana farm.

The marijuana language is a language Weedists may use as we refer to ourselves and what we do. Over the past weeks, it has been my goal...

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...

A brick of marijuana that Border Patrol agents found in a boy’s pants while frisking him illegally should have been excluded as evidence, the 9th Circuit ruled...

Earlier this month, an overwhelming sixty-three percent of Massachusetts voters approved Ballot Question 3 and, in so doing, became the country’s 18th state to pass a medical marijuana law. Massachusetts is...

03:37pm DVD Review: Code of the West, directed by Rebecca Richman Cohen (2012, Racing Horse Films, 71 minutes) In Code of the West, Emmy nominated filmmaker Rebecca Richman...

Weedists, if you’re looking for some good and simple laughs to release some stress, consider checking out Workaholics. Workaholics is an insane sitcom on Comedy Central that premiered on...

05:43pm Chris Williams is sitting in a private federal prison on the Montana prairie these days awaiting sentencing. If the federal government has its way, he...

Both Federal and Mendocino County officials declined to comment on a federal subpoena for financial records regarding the county’s medical marijuana ordinance, a local paper reported. Under...