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Legalization advocates feared opposition from Maine Gov. Paul LePage might sway undecided voters. Then LePage went LePage, and those fears vanished.

Too many people are still going to prison for marijuana possession, Gov. Tom Wolf said on Monday.

Advocates will challenge the attorney general’s rewording of the ballot title — a legal process certain to push the measure past the general election.

Advocates have surmounted seemingly impossible odds with a long-shot bid to bring medical cannabis to the Sooner State.

Opponents of an initiative that would legalize recreational marijuana are urging the state Supreme Court to block the measure from November’s ballot.

Johan van Laarhoven faces a 103-year jail sentence in Thailand despite never having committed a crime in that country.

Campaigns across the country — both in support of cannabis legalization and against it — are scrambling to qualify for November’s ballot.

Arkansans Against Legalized Marijuana says the proposal misleads voters about its consequences.

The sponsor of a proposed initiative to repeal Montana’s medical marijuana law will instead focus on defeating a separate initiative to expand MMJ distribution.

Maryland’s medical marijuana commission on Wednesday released details on how top applicants to grow and process marijuana in the state were ranked.