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YAKIMA, Wash. — The momentum toward legalized marijuana might seem like an inevitable tide, with states from Florida to New York considering easing laws for medical use, and a full-blown [...]

In an interview with the New Yorker released on Sunday, President Obama made perhaps the strongest endorsement by any sitting president on relaxed marijuana laws. Pushed by interviewer David [...]

Gov. Peter Shumlin said recently that he supports marijuana legalization in Vermont, but he’s “neither willing nor proposing” to do it during the upcoming legislative session. Shumlin’s [...]

A record number of Americans are in favor of legalizing marijuana, according to a new Gallup poll released Tuesday. The poll, which was conducted Oct. 3-6, reports that 58 percent of the public [...]

DENVER – CO In Denver, more than 60 investors from The ArcView Group met with 22 startup marijuana companies — including several directly involved in marijuana sales or cultivation, [...]

RIO DE JANEIRO — Uruguay’s lower house late Wednesday night approved a sweeping bill to legalize marijuana, opening the way for the authorities to create one of Latin America’s most ambitious [...]

WASHINGTON — It took 50 years for American attitudes about marijuana to zigzag from the paranoia of “Reefer Madness” to the excesses of Woodstock back to the hard line of “Just [...]

Americans’ support for Cannabis legalization is at an all-time high, as seen in a recent nationwide Pew Poll. Read this entire NORML article. [message type=”custom” [...]

They came in suits and cowboy hats, with cropped gray hair and long ponytails, and they filled one room at Seattle City Hall and spilled into another, about 400 strong. Some had waited decades [...]

The marijuana legalization initiatives that triumphed in Washington and Colorado this past fall faced surprisingly little organized opposition… So what happens now? The biggest immediate [...]