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Pro-marijuana groups in Michigan submitted language to the Board of State Canvassers on Friday for a ballot initiative to legalize recreational marijuana. If the measure makes it to the November 2018 ballot, Michigan would become the ninth state to fully legalize cannabis for adult use...

Marijuana proponents on Friday launched a 2018 ballot drive to make Michigan the ninth state to legalize the recreational use of the drug and the first in the Midwest to do so. The initiative has the backing of state-based marijuana advocacy groups and a key national lobbying organization...

Supporters of legalizing marijuana in Michigan have tried repeatedly without success to get the issue on the ballot in recent years, using an army of volunteers to collect signatures. But in 2018, they'll have money, national expertise and momentum behind the effort to free the weed. Advocates...

A medical cannabis dispensary in Calaveras County is suing the County Board of Supervisors to try to block a ballot initiative giving voters a chance to ban commercial cannabis cultivation. The lawsuit filed Thursday on behalf of Calaveras Naturals asks a judge to take Measure B off the...

It's estimated to rival the entire state of Colorado's billion-dollar industry, with perhaps 1,000 retail shops plus untold cultivators, delivery services, testing labs, edibles bakers and concentrate makers operating in the city — even before legalized recreational marijuana sales kick in next...

A cannabis industry trade organization Friday hailed as "comprehensive and inclusive" a proposition on the Los Angeles March 7 election ballot that would restore the city's ability to develop regulations for marijuana businesses. Proposition M, which was placed on the ballot by the City...

Salt Lake City – Patient advocates acknowledge disappointment that Utah lawmakers have scaled back efforts to draft legislation to legalize access to medical cannabis. But at least now they know they're on their own. During a press conference Friday morning, four state legislators detailed...

Westborough - Voters at the annual election and town meeting in March will be asked to decide whether the town should prohibit marijuana businesses that are not medical. In November, 54 percent of Massachusetts voters approved the legalization of recreational marijuana use for people 21 and...

Stoughton, MA – Residents in Stoughton could be asked to vote on a ballot question that would ban recreational marijuana sales in town. The selectmen voted Tuesday to request special counsel to draft a ballot question. If the question passes, non-medical marijuana sales in Stoughton would be...

Kansas City, Mo. – The Kansas City Council on Thursday voted to include a question about reducing pot possession fines on the April ballot. The decision received 12 affirmative votes and one dissenting vote from Mayor Sly James. Today's approval was procedural. The group gathering signatures...

Kansas City, MO - A Kansas City council committee passed a marijuana measure for the April ballot. Now, it's heading to the full council for approval. It would place a maximum fine of $25 for someone possessing 35 grams or less of marijuana. The measure would also eliminate the possibility of...

Westborough — At the Jan. 10 Westborough Board of Selectmen meeting, the board approved placing a ballot question on the municipal town election ballot to opt out of recreational marijuana sales. It also approved the addition of Article 48 to the Town Meeting warrant which would amend the...

Despite concerns, a resigned Kansas City Council committee today recommended the full council put a petition to reduce penalties for marijuana possession on the ballot this April. The recommendation came after Tuesday's Missouri Supreme court decision, which ordered the city to put a minimum...

Outgoing Secretary of State Jason Kander has approved 12 ballot petitions for circulation in Missouri. Two of them aim to legalize and tax marijuana for recreational and medical use. Ten more pertain to collective bargaining agreements. Supporters have about 18 months to gather the roughly...

Kansas City, Mo. - Voters in Missouri will have the opportunity to put a marijuana legalization question on a future ballot. The potential question would be for both medical and recreational use. Secretary of State Jason Kander approved the petition, and now supporters need to gather...

On the 2016 ballot North Dakota voters approved a very complicated measure legalizing medical marijuana. Which is ok, as far as it goes. I'd rather have full-on legalization than this bureaucratic and expensive monstrosity, but that's what we get when we stupidly legislate at the ballot box. So...

Augusta – An official recount of a statewide ballot question legalizing marijuana in Maine is now on hold until after the New Year. The recount was suspended late Thursday after about 30 percent of the total ballots cast had been reviewed with no significant change in the outcome revealed...

Boston - With 28 days until it becomes legal to grow marijuana in Massachusetts, some in the medical marijuana industry are concerned about the slow launch of a new industry without a regulatory scheme in place. Nicholas Vita, chief executive officer of Columbia Care, which holds three...

Apache Junction, AZ - Access to medical marijuana in Arizona would be eased under a proposed ballot initiative filed on Thursday. The ballot proposal would lower the yearly cost of a medical marijuana patient card from $150 to $10 and expand the conditions that would qualify a patient for a...

At his hydroponics store in Waterford Township, Lee Wilson notes the medical benefits of marijuana and says he understands the politics that made marijuana illegal in the United States. He sees nothing wrong with legalizing marijuana. "Why not?" Wilson said. "I don't understand what the...