Tag: Legalization

An employee puts away product at Cloud 9 Cannabis.

Hemp ban makes it into funding bill: ‘Soon be banned nationwide’

Molly Parks · November 10, 2025 12:48 pm

What rescheduling marijuana means for Washington state’s cannabis industry

Brett Davis | The Center Square · May 2, 2024 7:52 am

Conservatorship: What is the controversial legal measure highlighted by The Blind Side and Britney Spears

Misty Severi · August 20, 2023 10:00 am

The alarming link between schizophrenia and marijuana

Washington Examiner · May 17, 2023 10:28 am

In this Friday, March 22, 2019 photo, Heather Randazzo, a grow employee at Compassionate Care Foundation's medical marijuana dispensary, trims leaves off marijuana plants in the company's grow house in Egg Harbor Township, N.J.

Adult-use marijuana bill passes House, heads to Senate

Washington Examiner · April 10, 2023 12:02 pm

Oklahoma’s marijuana rejection reveals pitfalls of push for full legalization

Kaelan Deese · March 9, 2023 8:00 am

Wrestler Carmelo Hayes, top, tangles with Akira Tozawa during the WWE Monday Night RAW event, Monday, March 6, 2023, in Boston.

WWE in talks to make betting on scripted matches legal: Report

Misty Severi · March 9, 2023 1:07 am

A marijuana plant is seen on Hippie Hill in San Francisco, Friday, April 20, 2018.

New Jersey legalizes recreational marijuana

Kaelan Deese · February 22, 2021 9:00 pm

FILE - In this Nov. 27, 2015, file photo, a bud tender holds two marijuana buds on his fingers on the way to a customer at the Denver Kush Club in north Denver. A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers has reintroduced legislation that would ensure states have the right to enact their own marijuana policies within their borders. The Marijuana Business Daily reports the matching bills brought back to the House and Senate on Thursday, April 4, 2019 would create an exemption in the Controlled Substances Act to protect statesâ ability to determine their own best approaches to cannabis without fear of federal reprisal.

Virginia decriminalizes marijuana

Zach Halaschak · May 22, 2020 7:31 pm

Man who lit joint while in court for marijuana charge arrested again

Zach Halaschak · January 30, 2020 8:02 pm

Gov. J. B. Pritzker holds a bill that legalizes adult-use cannabis in the state of Illinois Tuesday, June 25, 2019 at Sankofa Cultural Arts and Business Center in Chicago. Illinois becomes the 11th to legalize the adult-use of recreational marijuana.

Illinois becomes next state to legalize recreational pot

Zach Halaschak · June 25, 2019 6:34 pm

FILE - In this Thursday, April 4, 2019 photo a cannabis worker displays fresh cannabis flower buds that have been trimmed for market in Gardena, Calif. When California voters broadly legalized marijuana, they were promised that a vast computer platform would closely monitor products moving through the new market. Sixteen months after the start of broad legal sales, just a few hundred operators are entering data into the track-and-trace system.

California court: Inmates can possess weed in prison but can’t use it

Zach Halaschak · June 13, 2019 10:04 pm