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Top brass from the Seattle Police Department will be on hand this weekend as marijuana advocates gather in Seattle for the Cannabis Freedom March. But...

Cheryl Hale's 16-year career at a Washington state retail store came to an end about a year and a half ago when an on-the-job injury forced her to sub...

BALTIMORE — The nation's drug czar said Wednesday the legalization of marijuana in Washington state and Colorado won't change his office's missi...

The past year has seen a tidal shift in the politics of marijuana, from Washington and Colorado's initiatives to tax and regulate pot like alcohol to...

WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Eric Holder gave voters in Washington and Colorado hope Thursday that the Department of Justice may not dramatically in...

SEATTLE -- Jeff Call knew he was pushing the envelope when he started letting people use marijuana at his rum-and-pizza joint in Tacoma. But he didn'...

WASHINGTON -- How it affects children will be one factor the Justice Department weighs as it determines how to respond to the legalization of marijuan...

SEATTLE — Mike Steenhout knows spreadsheets, statistics and bean-counting. He has worked as a budget assistant to the governor, managed local op...

SEATTLE — Washington state is delaying its timeline for granting marijuana growing and processing licenses – and that means legal marijuan...

NEW YORK -- For four decades, libertarians, civil rights activists and drug treatment experts have stood outside of the political mainstream in arguin...

SEATTLE — The state patrol and some other police agencies in Washington state are now training drug-sniffing dogs to ignore marijuana. After vo...

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Green thumb? Check. Extensive knowledge of the black market? Check. Throw in impeccable academic credentials and decades of experie...

Marylanders take note: marijuana may soon be legal your state. Delegate Curt Anderson (D) introduced a bill Thursday that would legalize marijuana ...

SEATTLE — So far, no one is suggesting checkpoints or fences to keep Washington state's legal pot within its borders. But Gov. Jay Inslee insis...

How many billions of tax -- federal and state -- could the marijuana market bear? The official estimate for the new Washington state law is $564 million per year, or about $82 per resident -- not per consumer.

By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES, Dec 30 (Reuters) - After a decades-long campaign to legalize marijuana hit a high mark in 2012 with ...