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Marijuana DUI Bill Dies

AP | KRISTEN WYATT | Posted 05.15.2012

DENVER — A marijuana blood limit for drivers was rejected Tuesday for a third time in Colorado, as lawmakers from both parties argued about how ...

Marijuana DUI Bill Headed For Approval?

Posted 05.02.2012

A bill that would set a marijuana blood standard for drivers--similar to that of current blood alcohol standards--took a big step toward approval on T...

Are South Florida Seniors Key To Passing Medical Marijuana Bill?

Posted 03.15.2012

When pot-progressive California added legalization to the ballot in 2010, voters didn’t let it pass. Whispers arose that seniors were the ones who k...

Pot Legalization Initiative Will Appear On 2012 Ballot

AP | By KRISTEN WYATT | Posted 04.28.2012

DENVER -- Colorado voters will decide this fall whether to legalize marijuana for recreational use when the state becomes the second in the nation to ...

Will Pot Legalization Question Make The Ballot?

Posted 02.27.2012

A group of marijuana activists seeking recreational use legalization for adults in Colorado expects to hear if they gathered enough signatures for a p...

Pot Activists To Turn In Additional 12,000 Signatures

Posted 02.27.2012

Colorado marijuana activists seeking recreational use legalization for adults are hoping that the additional 12,000 signatures they have gathered will...

'Regulate Marijuana Like Wine' Initiative Gains Widespread Support

| Posted 04.04.2012

This article comes to us courtesy of SF Weekly's The Snitch. By Chris Roberts ​Regulate Marijuana Like Wine, a marijuana legalization measure ...

Still Not Enough Signatures?

Posted 02.03.2012

The Colorado Secretary of State's office determined that the "Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol" campaign fell short of the necessary amount of valid si...

Pot Activists Gather Nearly Double The Signatures For Legalization Measure

Posted 01.05.2012

As the state seeks reclassification of medical marijuana to a schedule 2 drug, Colorado pot activists are seeking full recreational use legalization, ...

New Ballot Measure Just May Legalize Marijuana For Good

| Posted 10.19.2011

This post comes to us courtesy of SF Weekly. By Chris Roberts Cannabis advocates promised they'd be back at the California ballot following mari...

Ballot Measure Would Tax Pot Like Wine

| Posted 10.05.2011

This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch. By Joshua Emerson Smith Supporters are gathering signatures for an initiative that would ...

On A Marijuana Mission

The Huffington Post/AOL Small Business | Patrick Sauer | Posted 07.28.2011

Have we become a nation of chronic employment? Out in California -- spiritual home to the Grateful Dead, Snoop Dogg, Cheech & Chong and Weeds -- it ap...

Feds Rule Pot Has No Accepted Medical Use

Posted 09.08.2011

The federal government ruled on Friday that marijuana has no accepted medical use and should remain in the same class of drugs as heroin. The deci...

ONE STEP CLOSER

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 07.20.2011

Colorado is the new pot legalization battleground with pot advocacy groups charging towards 2012 as the year marijuana is fully legalized in the state...

FULL LEGALIZATION IN 2012

The Huffington Post/AP | Matt Ferner | Posted 07.16.2011

Colorado is becoming the center of the new drug war - the full legalization of marijuana. California was the first battleground, but pot advocates did...

What Pot Legalization Looks Like

Trish Regan | Posted 06.20.2011

Trish Regan

Portugal shows the best way to keep kids away from pot is to make it legal for everyone else.

Cannabis Could Cure Budget Woes

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 05.25.2011

Christopher Brauchli

It is a column about economics and compares the cost of leaving the leafy thing as an outcast in society or taking steps to help it gain respectability.

Lucia Graves

Pot Advocates To Push For Legalization In 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011

Proponents of Proposition 19, the California ballot initiative that would have legalized recreational use and possession of small amounts of marijuana...

Legal Pot or Bust!

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.25.2011

Harvey Wasserman

While this election season looks like a horrendous death spasm of a dying empire, the energized movement to end prohibition in California is one of its few healthy developments.

Ryan Grim

Pot Measure Trailing Badly In California

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Peter Tosh wants a part in the revival of the marijuana legalization movement, even if it has to come from beyond. The reggae-star's estate released a...

New Rule: Christine O'Donnell Has to Stop Saying "I'm You" in Her Campaign Ads

Bill Maher | Posted 05.25.2011

Bill Maher

New Rule: Christine O'Donnell has to stop saying, "I'm you" in her campaign ads. It doesn't get truer the more you say it. Because it's not a spell.

If California Legalizes Marijuana, How Will Obama React?

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Chris Weigant

California legalizing marijuana seems to have become a very real possibility, and how Obama's going to handle it will be important. The state could become a "test-case" in challenging federal laws on the matter.

The Criminalization of Pot Killed My Best Friend (and Ruined My Life)

Jill Richardson | Posted 05.25.2011

Jill Richardson

The pharmaceutical industry does not want marijuana to be legal. Neither does the alcohol industry, which is spending money to defeat Prop 19. They want a few more dollars for their shareholders, but I want my best friend back.

SEIU Supports Marijuana Legalization

The New York Times | Adam Nagourney | Posted 05.25.2011

A ballot measure to make California the first state to legalize the sale and use of marijuana has won the support of one of the state's most powerful ...

Legalize Pot? Poll Shows Most Americans Against Legal Weed, Except Medical Marijuana

AP | GREG RISLING | Posted 05.25.2011

LOS ANGELES — Most Americans still oppose legalizing marijuana but larger majorities believe pot has medical benefits and the government should ...