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Governor Kenneth Mapp signed into law Senator Positive Nelson's hemp bill on Tuesday, according to the governor's transmittal letter to Senate President Neville James. The bill, after being indefinitely tabled in the Committee on Rules and Judiciary in February, was given a different number and...

Advocates for medical marijuana in Montana have begun gathering signatures for an initiative seeking to undo legislation that they say overly restricts the use of the substance. Backers of the measure have just nine weeks to collect the 24,175 valid signatures needed to place the initiative...

Advocates for medical marijuana in Montana have begun gathering signatures for an initiative that would ask voters to undo legislation limiting the use of the substance. But backers of I-182 have just nine weeks to collect the 24,175 valid signatures needed to place the measure on the...

Advocates for medical marijuana in Montana have begun gathering signatures for an initiative seeking to undo legislation that they say overly restricts the use of the substance. But backers of the measure have just nine weeks to collect the 24,175 valid signatures needed to place the...

The state House could decide as early as this week on whether Pennsylvania should become the 24th state to legalize medical marijuana. The House began debate Monday evening on a legalization bill approved last spring by the Senate. Under the measure, people who suffer from certain conditions...

Ohioans could vote on dueling medical marijuana measures this fall. A group calling itself Grassroots Ohio is pushing a constitutional amendment that would legalize marijuana use for medicinal purposes. But unlike the measure backed by national group Marijuana Policy Project, the...

The lead proponent of a Long Beach medical marijuana initiative has switched his support to a competing measure whose backers are seeking to place the question of legalizing dispensaries on the November ballot. Medical marijuana advocate Larry King, who until Tuesday was aligned with the Long...

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...

The only group actively collecting signatures to put a marijuana legalization measure on the Ohio ballot this year has paused its campaign. Instead, the Legalize Ohio 2016 campaign will work with Marijuana Policy Project on its medical marijuana measure and with marijuana activists trying to...

The last time Senator Terrence Nelson's hemp bill - a measure that seeks to amend title 7 of Virgin Islands Code, chapter 1, for the cultivation of hemp and other related purposes - was heard at a Committee on Rules and Judiciary hearing, it was held in committee following strong opposition from...

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...

With almost a year left until Election Day 2016, a slew of proposals to legalize marijuana are already being floated in California, ushering in a referendum not just on whether to legalize pot in the world's eighth largest economy, but how. "A lot of money is going to be spent and it's going...