The Michigan communities of Ferndale and Jackson will vote on local marijuana decriminalization initiatives, backers said this week, as they handed in petitions full of registered voter...
As part of an ongoing cannabis law reform effort in Michigan, voters in three more Michigan cities will soon have the chance to do what their elected...
A bill that would require public benefits recipients to take a drug test upon suspicion they are using drugs won final approval in the North Carolina legislature...
New Hampshire becomes the 19th medical marijuana state, some folks in Kentucky would like it to become one, too; and the local tussling continues in California. And...
Gov. Maggie Hassan signed a bill into law Tuesday making New Hampshire the 19th state to allow residents with serious illnesses to access and use medical marijuana...
Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has yet again rejected a proposal to put medical marijuana up for a vote in the state. For the sixth time, McDaniel...
Kentucky state Senator Perry Clark (D-Louisville) is no quitter. Thwarted twice before in efforts to get a medical marijuana bill moving in Frankfort, Clark and supporters are...
A bill introduced Thursday by Congressman Jared Huffman (D-CA) and bipartisan cosponsors from California and Colorado would create new penalties for marijuana growers who grow on federal...
Arkansans for Compassionate Care submitted a ballot title, the “Arkansas Medical Marijuana Act”, to Attorney General Dustin McDaniel. McDaniel has already rejected medical marijuana legislation five times,...
The Republican-controlled Michigan House Friday approved a bill that would allow for the suspicion-based drug testing of welfare recipients. The bill, House Bill 4118, now heads to the...
Portland, Maine may become the first city to defy both state and national marijuana laws. Following a vote by City Council on Monday, June 15, voters residing...
Oregon’s recently-passed medical marijuana dispensary law won’t help owners and operators that were arrested before its passage. Not only that, there is a specific amendment in the...
The U.S. House of Representatives approved a revised version of the highly-contested Farm Bill yesterday. Although representatives re-crafted the bill to remove provisions for food stamp funding, they left...
For medical marijuana dispensary owners and the patients who rely on them for access to their medicine, Colorado Congressman Ed Perlmutter’s (D) bill is common sense. Perlmutter introduced legislation...
A federal medical marijuana banking bill was introduced, an Oregon bill that would allow and regulate dispensaries heads to the governor’s desk, Berkeley and Oakland fight the...
District of Columbia Councilmember Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6) filed a marijuana decriminalization bill for the nation’s capital Wednesday. Wells is chairman of the council’s Committee on the...
Members of the Oregon House and Senate have given final approval to House Bill 3460, which licenses medicinal cannabis dispensaries statewide. Senate members approved an amended version of the bill by...
Last year, the Oklahoma legislature passed and Gov. Mary Fallin (R) signed into law a bill mandating drug screening for welfare applicants. The bill was designed to...
Last week, the Pennsylvania NAACP endorsed a pending marijuana legalization bill. And on the 4th of July, the civil rights group stepped up that support, holding a press conference...
The Illinois MMJ bill is about to become law, and Riverside Police Chief Tom Weitzel is terrified. He is terrified of patients driving: “Their reactions are slow. It...
