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Two years ago, the medical marijuana constitutional amendment was on the ballot. Even though a majority of Florida voters supported it – 58 percent – it failed to meet the 60 percent threshold needed for passage. There was a strong and well-financed opposition that relied on doomsday...

After two medical marijuana bills suffered defeat during the final week of Utah's 2016 legislative session, advocates for the drug are regrouping. Leaders in the movement to legalize marijuana for medical use have been looking for someone to sponsor similar legislation next session since Sen...

Backers of a proposed constitutional amendment legalizing marijuana for medical use on Tuesday expanded the list of qualifying medical conditions in new ballot language. Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine last week found three deficiencies with an amendment and summary Marijuana Policy...

The first stab at getting a medical marijuana amendment on Ohio's ballot has failed, but organizers of the plan say they're not surprised. Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine found three "defects" with Marijuana Policy Project's ballot language, which it submitted this month after gaining the...

Supporters and foes of legalizing marijuana gathered at the State House on Monday to weigh in on a proposal that would allow the recreational use and possession of marijuana up to an ounce for those 21 and older. The proposal was the focus of a public hearing before the Legislature's...

Backers of a proposed constitutional amendment will have to wait a little more than a week to find out whether petition signatures and language pass the initial state review. The Marijuana Policy Project submitted the paperwork late March 3, along with 2,098 signatures, to Attorney General...

Another group has announced it's working to get a measure to legalize medical marijuana on the Ohio ballot. Cleveland.com reports that Grassroots Ohio said Thursday it will submit proposed ballot language to the state attorney general in the next week. The group's one-page constitutional...

Marijuana could be back on the ballot this November in Ohio if state officials approve the language in a new proposal, and if pro pot groups can collect enough signatures. A committee with Ohioans for Medical Marijuana will announce a new plan on Tuesday to legalize medical marijuana in the...

A familiar issue is making its way back to the ballot: marijuana legalization. A recent Public Policy Poll shows 3 in 4 Ohioans want to legalize medical marijuana. The Quinnipiac University poll before the November 2014 election showed 90 percent of Ohioans wanted medical marijuana...

Two different ballot initiatives to allow medical marijuana dispensaries in Long Beach are working their ways through the city attorney and city clerk's offices, and advocates could be on the streets collecting signatures next month. Initiatives from Bob Kelton and Larry King were filed after...

After sitting out a failed effort to legalize recreational marijuana in Ohio last year, a national pot policy group is taking the lead to legalize medical marijuana in Ohio. In fact, although Issue 3, an attempt to fully legalize consumption of the plant, mustered only about a third of Ohio...

Long Beach's former city clerk made the right call when he decided that a pro-medical marijuana measure had not qualified for the April 2014 ballot, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of appeals ruled Monday. The court's ruling did not address the merits of medical marijuana policy in Long Beach...

Medical marijuana appearing on the November ballot could have an impact on the Utah State Legislature, flipping some districts from Republican to Democrat. In other states, marijuana initiatives have historically driven younger, often more liberal voters to the polls. It may not be enough to...

A ballot initiative to bring medical marijuana to Utah could begin this weekend, with backers announcing an ambitious plan to gather signatures. At a news conference Tuesday, supporters of Sen. Mark Madsen's SB73 said they were anticipating the bill would fail in the Utah State Legislature...

Medical marijuana advocates are pushing to get the issue on the November ballot in Missouri, with two competing proposals being pursued. Republican Rep. Dave Hinson, of St. Clair, has introduced a bill that would regulate cultivation and dispensation, The Joplin Globe reported. He...

Conceding that the Utah Legislature is unlikely to pass a bill legalizing medical marijuana, Utah patients who have been using the plant along with backers of legal cannabis -– including several wealthy and well-connected Utah businessmen – plan to launch a ballot initiative that would let...

Utah patients announced they will pursue ballot initiative in hopes to let the public decide the future of medical marijuana in the state. The ballot initiative was announced Monday after the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints came out last week against one of the two medical...

The ballot measure to legalize medical marijuana in South Dakota has been thrown out, but supporters aren't giving up yet.. The Secretary of States' Office says that the initiated measure was rejected because it did not meet the required number of signatures to be placed on the ballot. A random...

South Dakota Secretary of State Shantel Krebs said Wednesday that an attempt to place an initiated measure on a statewide ballot to legalize marijuana for medical use has failed due to invalid signatures. Krebs said late Wednesday that the measure was rejected because it did not meet the...

Medical marijuana is officially on the 2016 ballot. On Tuesday, Secretary of State Ken Detzner certified the medical marijuana initiative as Amendment 2 on the 2016 ballot. "It's official: Medical marijuana is back on the ballot as Amendment 2," said John Morgan, chairman of United for...