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The D.C. Council voted unanimously in favor of a bill that would improve the process by which a person can seal criminal records pertaining to conduct that has since been decriminalized or legalized.
According to a poll conducted by The University of Texas and the Texas Tribune, 77 percent of voters in Texas believe in some form of cannabis legalization.
A move to replace criminal penalties with civil penalties for the possession of small amounts of marijuana surfaced Wednesday as a major issue in the contentious race for Houston's Harris County District Attorney...
Jamaica's justice minister said Tuesday that legislation has been drafted to decriminalize marijuana on the Caribbean island where the drug has been pervasive but prohibited for a century.
Starting October 20th, possession of small amounts of marijuana will be a civil offense in the city of Philadelphia. Mayor Michael Nutter signed Jim Kenney’s marijuana decriminalization bill in a ceremony at City Hall today.
A new Maryland law depenalizing marijuana possession offenses takes effect this Wednesday. The new law does not reclassify penalties involving the possession of marijuana paraphernalia, which remains a criminal offense.
According to Kentucky.com, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes - whose tight race against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is receiving national media attention - said it is "worthwhile" for elected officials to discuss the prospect of making marijuana legal in the state of Kentucky.
This upcoming election season should prove to be of great importance in regards to legalizing cannabis, and de-fanging the wildly overblown "drug war" mentality that has locked this country into decades of wrongful prosecutions and ill-advised polices.
Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel called on the General Assembly to decriminalize marijuana possession statewide and to reduce the penalty to a misdemeanor for those caught with 1 gram or less of any controlled substance.
Two New Mexico counties can poll voters about decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana on November's ballot, the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled.
According to The Philadelphia Tribune, members of the Institute for the Development of African American Youth (IDAAY), as well as other organizations, congratulated Mayor Michael Nutter for agreeing to sign a bill to decriminalize marijuana possession in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia city mayor Michael Nutter announced today that he will sign municipal legislation into law decriminalizing marijuana possession penalties.
The list of localities considering making marijuana legal or decriminalizing possession of small amounts is steadily growing, and two New Mexico cities were just added to the list last week. In Santa Fe, organizers submitted almost 11,000 signatures to allow voters to decide to remove criminal penalties for simple possession.
Santa Fe on Wednesday became the latest U.S. city to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana, with lawmakers in the New Mexico capital voting to change local statutes rather than put the issue to a public ballot in November.
On June 19th, Philadelphia City Council voted to decriminalize the possession of up to one ounce of marijuana, but in the month following the bill’s passing, 264 citizens were charged with the crime.
The Brooklyn District Attorney, Kenneth Thompson, has assembled a team that is reviewing hundreds of low-level marijuana offenses that the department could decline to prosecute, DNAinfo reports.
A DC newspaper is eager to see how local law enforcement will be dealing with the recent marijuana decrim, so they’ve offered to pay the $25 fine for the first five people they hear from who have received citations.
As of midnight Wednesday, D.C.’s marijuana decriminalization law is officially in effect. The new law...
