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Byline: Jeremy Yurow, USA TODAY Hawaii's state Senate made headlines last month after overwhelmingly approving a bill to legalize recreational marijuana by 2026, but its passage into law is far [...]

Byline: Kris Olson When a person's record includes a conviction for an incident that is no longer considered a crime, it should be simple and straightforward to get it removed. [...]

Democrats, with some Republican support, voted 220-204 to remove marijuana from the federal list of controlled substances, moving to catch up to the states. WASHINGTON -- The House passed legislation [...]

Byline: Felicia Sonmez and Mike DeBonis WASHINGTON - The House on Friday passed legislation that would remove marijuana from the federal schedule of controlled substances, a move that comes as [...]

Senator Chuck Schumer, the majority leader, offered draft legislation to remove marijuana from the list of controlled substances and begin regulating and taxing it. WASHINGTON -- Senator Chuck Schumer of [...]

Early this morning the Senate approved a bill decriminalizing recreational marijuana for adults age 21 and over and creating the framework for a legal cannabis market in Connecticut. The bill [...]

There were 38 statewide citizen initiatives being decided across the country on Tuesday, about half the level of the last presidential election. OAKLAND, Calif. -- The march to decriminalize drugs [...]

Seyfarth Synopsis: New York has become the latest state to enact a law protecting the use of personal nonmedical cannabis for individuals age 21 and over. As one of the [...]

Despite the lamentable outcome of the NZ cannabis legalisation referendum that saw the usually progressive nation vote in a slight majority against making the plant legal for recreational use, the [...]

Texas lawmakers thought they were clear: The bill they overwhelmingly passed allowing the growth and sale of hemp had nothing to do with legalizing pot. ''This is no slippery slope [...]

JERSEY CITY -- Every city in America knows that it's a bad idea to prosecute low-level, nonviolent marijuana offenses. It wastes scarce municipal resources and does nothing to enhance public [...]

Byline: David Moscrop David Moscrop is a Canadian political commentator. The march of moral progress is slow. Typically, it is routinely punctuated by halts and detours and backward treks. So, [...]

Byline: Alexandra Blackman;Farah Samti On Jan. 1, Tunisian police reportedly arrested four people in Tunis with marijuana in their car. Their arrests came almost exactly one year after Tunisia's justice [...]

Byline: Katie Zezima When California voters passed a measure in 2016 that legalized cannabis and allowed for people to have their marijuana convictions wiped away or reduced, San Diego County [...]

Nov. 20--On the 'Watch List': --The South Side effort. Pittsburgh's perennial party district too often borders on the chaotic. And that clearly can be a public safety threat. Thus, the [...]

Byline: Pat Murphy The Supreme Judicial Court will hear arguments March 5 on whether the odor of burnt marijuana provides justification for police to stop a vehicle, even though Massachusetts [...]

Byline: Marc Fisher WASHINGTON - The campaigns for and against legalizing marijuana in the nation's capital are not exactly sophisticated - no targeted robo-calling, no TV commercials, no get-out-the-vote drive. [...]

People in Philadelphia caught with small amounts of marijuana or smoking it in public may soon face no more than a written citation and a modest fine as the City [...]

The following editorial appeared in Friday's Washington Post: Maryland's marijuana laws remain a work in progress. Lawmakers in Annapolis have just enacted a measure to decriminalize the possession of small [...]

WASHINGTON -- The District of Columbia on Wednesday moved closer to easing restrictions on marijuana, as city lawmakers advanced a measure that would decriminalize possession of up to one ounce [...]

Gov. Peter Shumlin signed a bill Thursday that made the state the 17th to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana. Under the law, possession of less than 1 ounce [...]

ALBANY -- The Democrats who control the State Assembly, many of them black or Latino residents of New York City, saw a proposal to decriminalize the open possession of small [...]

Dean Skelos, the majority leader of the New York State Senate, shows a serious lack of good sense in opposing Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to decriminalize possession of small amounts [...]

The government reintroduced legislation to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana. Under the plan, anyone possessing 15 grams (about half an ounce) or less would be issued a fine […]

The government reintroduced a bill in the House of Commons to decriminalize use of small amounts of marijuana. Under the measure, anyone possessing under 15 grams -- about enough for […]

The pot legislation introduced yesterday has little chance of ever being passed into law. There is too much opposition from within the Liberal Party, and too little time before Jean [...]

The federal government's bill to decriminalize possession of less than 15 grams of marijuana is as moderate as it's possible to be while still doing the right thing. It would [...]

OTTAWA -- The Liberal government has put off its plans to table legislation to decriminalize marijuana this week -- a move opposition critics decried as bowing to pressure from the [...]

This fall, Arizona's general-election ballot will include an initiative that would decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana, reported the United Press International. The Drug Medicalization, Prevention and Control Act [...]

The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, a think tank funded by the Canadian government, has recommended that Canada decriminalize marijuana possession. The organization has released a study, "Cannabis Control in [...]