Uruguay plans to begin legal marijuana sales of pot grown under government control by year's end, using cloned plants, President Jose Mujica said Wednesday.
Fewer American teenagers consider marijuana to be dangerous, a federal agency reported Wednesday, a fresh indication of growing public acceptance of a substance that remains illegal under US law.
At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on "Conflicts between State and Federal Marijuana Laws," Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) claimed that marijuana prohibition was based on "what science tells us about this dangerous and addictive drug." He followed that by noting that there's "a process that exists for moving drugs on and off" the list of prohibited substances, but that "the scientific standard to do that hasn't yet been met for marijuana."
MONTREAL — Canada's Liberal Party overwhelmingly passed a motion Sunday proposing the legalization of marijuana on the last day of its national convention, at which Michael Crawley was chosen as its new leader.
LOS ANGELES – Speaking to this year's Drug Policy Alliance conference on Thursday, GOP presidential candidate and former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson promised to pardon all federal marijuana prisoners if he's elected to the nation's highest office.
Gil Kerlikowske, the director of the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy, responded Friday to an extremely popular marijuana legalization petition on the White House’s “We the People” site.
