Articles tagged with "legalization"

Governor-elect Phil Murphy doesn’t succeed Chris Christie until next week, but already lawmakers are moving to achieve one of his campaign promises: legalizing marijuana.

If Gov. Phil Scott signs the adopted bill, Vermont will become the 9th adult-use state, and the first to adopt via the legislature.

Plenty of politicians expressed outrage at Jeff Sessions over his Cole memo decision. But few acted. Here’s the data on who has and who hasn’t.

While other leaders offer only words, Colorado’s Republicans and Democrats are acting to protect state legalization.

It’s one of several efforts to build on the choice California voters’ made to legalize marijuana despite fresh threats from the federal government.

The California Highway Patrol seized a shipment of licensed cannabis, didn’t file charges, and won’t return the plants. What’s going on in Mendocino?

The city that cradled the medical marijuana movement finally goes adult-use legal. Leafly’s Chris Roberts hits the new shops.

After months of delay, Gov. Mary Fallin finally gives the go-ahead for voters to decide the issue.

“Nothing I’ve ever done has been legal and nothing I’ve ever done has been illegal,” says the founder of Toronto’s longest-running cannabis lounge. “Where there’s a will there’s a way.”

House lawmakers are expected to give final approval to slight changes to the original bill, and Republican Gov. Phil Scott has said he’d sign the legislation.