Here’s a look at the results from Tuesday’s election, where voters in Alaska, Oregon and Washington D.C. voters considered legalizing recreational marijuana for personal use by adults, and Florida’s medical marijuana Amendment 2 ballot measure:
Marijuana advocates are already preparing for their next target, and it’s a big one: California. They are aiming to ask voters in the nation’s largest state to legalize marijuana for recreational use in 2016, hoping to draw on a more liberal and larger electorate during a presidential election to help them avoid a repeat of their 2010 failed pot measure.
A driver reported by other travelers for creeping along at about 5 mph on a West Texas interstate faces up to 20 years in prison for trying to smuggle marijuana.
Denver-area authorities said Monday they received no reports of children accidentally eating pot-laced candies this Halloween. Police had warned parents to be on the lookout for the edibles, which can look almost identical to brand-name treats.
Chile started its first medical marijuana crop on Wednesday as part of a pilot program aimed to help ease the pain of cancer patients. “It’s not reasonable to close yourself to new evidence. Marijuana can provide some dignity to those who suffer,” said La Florida district Mayor Rodolfo Carter.
A peaceful pro-pot rally in Manitou Springs was disrupted by police on Saturday after police said vendors did not have permission to serve food. One pro-marijuana group said the police intentionally shut it down while the police said it comes down to paperwork.
City officials have sent letters to Seattle medical marijuana growers, processors and dispensaries reminding them they need to either shut down or be licensed by the state by next summer. The problem is that the Legislature hasn’t yet created a licensing system to allow sales of medical marijuana.
Lawmakers concerned about what they call a marijuana black market operating under Colorado’s medical-pot system will consider legislation next year that would limit plant grows and place more oversight on caregivers.
Law enforcement officials in small Nebraska communities near the Colorado border are struggling to keep up with the amount of marijuana crossing the state line as drug arrests climb and county budgets are strained.
Bottles of Legal brand marijuana-infused soda delivered to a Bellingham, Washington pot shop started exploding on the store shelf.
A Georgia man says drug suppression officers mistook his okra plants for marijuana. Dwayne Perry of Cartersville tells WSB-TV that he was awakened by a helicopter flying low over his house Wednesday and then some heavily-armed deputies and a K-9 unit showed up at his door.
Five people who allegedly stormed a residential marijuana garden near Redding and falsely identified themselves as federal drug agents have been arrested on charges of robbery and impersonating a peace officer.
A licensed marijuana caregiver has been convicted of letting others make hash oil through a dangerous process that caused an explosion at her home.
The city of Pueblo is considering a ban on growing marijuana in homes and apartments. The proposed ordinance would require pot growers to use a detached building. The city’s Planning & Zoning Commission will hear the proposal and take public comment on Oct. 15.
For the second time in a year, the U.S. Forest Service has eradicated an illegal marijuana-growing operation on national forest lands in the Aspen area.
Jamaica’s justice minister says legislation has been drafted to decriminalize marijuana on the Caribbean island where the drug has been pervasive but prohibited for a century.
A spate of new laws went into effect Wednesday for the District of Columbia and Maryland. Now, getting caught with less than 10 grams of marijuana will be akin to getting a parking ticket.
The state backed off a divisive proposal to allow indoor warehouses to grow twice as many plants as greenhouses, 3,600 versus 1,800. The final rules allow the same number of plants at either facility.
Durango’s first recreational marijuana shop was shut down a few hours after it opened Friday because of a product-testing glitch.
A marijuana giveaway for veterans attracted about 1,000 people to a Colorado Springs hotel.
The sprint car series in which Kevin Ward Jr. raced the night he was fatally struck by a car driven by Tony Stewart does not drug test its drivers.
The Washington state Liquor Control Board has licensed a second legal pot shop in Seattle. Uncle Ike’s is set to open Tuesday, Sept. 30. Statewide, the liquor board has issued about 60 pot shop licenses, but as of early this month only 32 had reported sales.
Recreational marijuana sales are beginning in Durango. Durango Organics and Wellness Center, an existing dispensary, is set to start selling recreational marijuana at 10 a.m. Friday morning, nearly nine months after sales began in Denver and other Colorado cities.
State officials want the Legislature to tweak the state’s recreational marijuana law so that it’s illegal to smoke marijuana in a car.
Some of the imported hemp seeds detained by U.S. customs officials in the spring turned into 10-foot-tall plants that were harvested in late September on a research plot in Kentucky, where marijuana’s non-intoxicating cousin has gained a foothold as a potential cash crop.
The author of Washington’s recreational marijuana law has suggested that Spokane test its sewage for traces of the cannabis chemical THC, to get a more accurate picture of pot use by residents.
An Albuquerque man is in custody for allegedly leaving nearly 140 pounds of marijuana in the trunk of a returned rental car.
Three-time NASCAR champion Tony Stewart will not be charged with the death of a fellow driver at a sprint car race in upstate New York, prosecutors said Wednesday in disclosing for the first time that the victim had enough marijuana in his system the night he died to impair his judgment.
A former Anchorage television reporter who quit her job with four-letter send-off got attention again at a public hearing about Alaska’s pot legalization measure.
A reporter for an Alaska TV station revealed on the air that she owns a medical marijuana business and was quitting her job to advocate for the drug.
A North Las Vegas high school junior will be prosecuted as an adult in the shooting death of a woman in what police say was a dispute over $5 in a marijuana buy.
The House passed a bill Tuesday night that could make it a little harder for people to use government welfare payments to buy marijuana in states where the drug is legal. Supporters call it the “no welfare for weed” bill.
Tired of Cheech & Chong pot jokes and ominous anti-drug campaigns, the marijuana industry and activists are starting an ad blitz in Colorado aimed at promoting moderation and the safe consumption of pot.
Police say a man dealing marijuana out of the back of his Buick has been trying to poach customers from Seattle’s only licensed recreational pot shop.
Some kinds of homemade hash oil could be banned in Denver. A panel of city council members starts work Tuesday on an ordinance to make it a municipal violation to make hash oil at home using a solvent, such as butane.
Confronted with a room full of teary parents with sick children, Colorado health authorities on Tuesday changed course on a plan to limit marijuana caregivers to 10 patients.
Costa Rica’s coast guard has recovered 1.5 tons of marijuana that officials say was thrown into the sea by smugglers being chased in the Caribbean after a tip from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
Seattle’s police chief has asked the city to seek dismissal of all marijuana citations issued by a bicycle officer who wrote 80 percent of the tickets handed out during the first half of this year for using pot in public.
State police say they’ve arrested a 22-year-old New York man after he was found with marijuana, cocaine and LSD hidden inside a stuffed animal dressed in an anti-drug T-shirt.
A non-binding online petition is asking the Breckenridge Town Council not to allow recreational marijuana shops in the ski resort’s downtown area.
A proposed ballot measure on recreational marijuana sales in Colorado’s second-largest city has been defeated by the Colorado Springs City Council.
Legal marijuana: The tangle of rules and regulations that govern whether and how it can be grown, bought and sold create complexity and ambiguity that cause major headaches for marijuana businesses — and enticing opportunities for those who want to exploit it.
A state judge said Friday that a small city can continue to ban state-licensed marijuana businesses, in a case with big implications for Washington’s experiment in legal pot.
A Canadian drug kingpin who was one of New York’s biggest marijuana suppliers and was dubbed the Pot Playboy was sentenced to 27 years in prison for leading a $1 billion international drug trafficking enterprise.
Jackie Chan apologized to the public Wednesday over his son’s detention on drug charges in Beijing, saying he’s ashamed and saddened.
The actor son of Hong Kong action superstar Jackie Chan has been detained in Beijing on marijuana-related charges, the latest high-profile celebrity to be ensnared in one of China’s biggest anti-drug crackdowns in two decades.
Residents in Brush are getting another chance to weigh in on a proposal to use a former women’s prison to grow and sell marijuana.
Authorities chasing a driver in a Los Angeles suburb got a surprise when his car crashed into a building that turned out to contain a marijuana farm.
Call it a homecoming for hemp: Marijuana’s non-intoxicating cousin is undergoing a rebirth in Kentucky, which is at the forefront of some states’ efforts to reclaim it as a mainstream crop.
