Next year promises to be a banner onefor marijuana legalization, with legitimate attempts to legalize via ballot initiative proposed in five states – California, Arizona, Nevada, Massachusetts, and Maine. More states may also legalize by initiative (Ohio), through t… Read article here: High Times
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Colorado Governor Gets Involved in State’s Pot Pesticide Problem
When Denver’s environmental health unit warned the state’s booming marijuana businesses that it intended to enforce federal, state, and local laws governingthe use of pesticides and agricultural chemicals, pesticide enforcement in Denver quickly followed… Read article here: High Times
New Report Predicts Which States Are Most and Least Likely to Legalize Pot By 2017
As the 2016 election looms in the distance, with a number of states working to put initiatives aimed at legalizing marijuana on their respective ballots, everyone from the studied cannabis activist to the average stoner has come crawling out of the woodwork in an attempt … Read article here: High Times
Maine Initiatives Join Forces to Bring Down Prohibition, Other States Should Take Note
Two marijuana advocacy groups working to make Maine one of the next states to legalize a recreational cannabis industry have decided—rather than continue to fight over semantics—to form a wicked alliance in an effort to get one solid initiative on the ballot i… Read article here: High Times
New Poll: Swing States Support the Legalization of Marijuana
Some of the more gutsy 2016 presidential candidates may soon take a more pot-friendly position in regard to their campaigns after seeing the results from the latest Quinnipiac University poll. The survey found an impressive majority of voters in the swing states of Florid… Read article here: High Times
Department of Justice Threatens to Take Away Funds From States That Reform Asset Forfeiture Laws
While former Attorney General Eric Holder said at the beginning of 2015 that the Department of Justice (DOJ) had taken measures to prevent state and local police departments from seizing money, cars and other personal property without first charging a drug suspect with cr… Read article here: High Times
Republican Voters in Key Election States Want Feds Out of State Marijuana Laws
Presidential candidates who believe they are going to win the nomination of their respective parties by threatening to dismantle the cannabis industry in legal states are dead in the water. Read article here: High Times
Seniors Choosing Legal Pot States for Retirement
While precise data on how many people are retiring to legal pot states is not currently available, “there is anecdotal evidence that people with health conditions—which medical marijuana could help treat—are relocating to states with legalized marijuana,… Read article here: High Times
New York Attorney Offering Litigious Revenge for Losers of State’s Medical Marijuana Lottery
When New Yorkannounces the winners of the medical marijuana licenses later this month, attorney David Marquez believes there will be “38 pissed off companies” ready to duke it out with an establishment that cost them millions of dollars and then left the… Read article here: High Times
Which States Will Be the Next to Legalize Marijuana?
Marijuana is now legal for medicinal and recreational purposes in over half the United States, with a solid majority of the population supporting efforts to end prohibition nationwide. Read article here: High Times