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Thursday on CNN, 2020 Democrat presidential candidate and former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper discussed marijuana, saying its legalization should be left up to each state to decide on. Hickenlooper compared it to prohibition and noted that some counties around the country

Normally, when a player has four different violations of the NFL drug policy, that player is no longer employed. At the very least, even if that player remains employed, he’s done with the team as soon as his contract is over.

Video of Dallas Cowboys tight end Rico Gathers being arrested for smoking pot in Frisco, Texas, has been released.

On Friday, former Cowboys defensive lineman David Irving announced on Instagram that he has decided not to return to pro football, while smoking weed.

Kamala Harris’s father is chastising his daughter and Democrat presidential hopeful for advancing stereotypes about pot-smoking Jamaicans.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing lower-than-expected tax revenues, thanks to unexpectedly low sales tax revenues from legal marijuana, and the first implementation of the new federal cap on state on local tax (SALT) deductions.

Gov. Gavin Newsom is shifting the California National Guard from border enforcement to cracking down on the illegal marijuana industry — even though he was an advocate for the legalization of the drug.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) claimed Monday that she smoked marijuana while listening to rap legends during her college years, yet it appears their albums were released only after the presidential candidate completed graduate school.

Monday on iHeartRadio’s “The Breakfast Club,” Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, voiced her support for legalizing marijuana. However, it was with some caveats. “Let me make this statement very clear: I believe we

A mother has been arrested after at least 12 students at a Cleveland elementary school got sent to the hospital because they unknowingly came into contact with marijuana-infused gummy candies, police said.

Jan. 25 (UPI) — Cannabis company Caliva closed its first round of funding at $75 million, with Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana among its investors.

Tesla investors reportedly believe that the company’s CEO Elon Musk may have made yet another joke about marijuana, this time when selling a company debt security.

California marijuana dispensaries reported record-high holiday sales this Christmas as pot products became popular stocking stuffers this holiday season.

This is the time of year when people are known to carry items in bags, hoping to distribute them and bring joy to the masses. However, a former NFL player has put his own spin on the Christmas spirit and its landed him in extremely hot water.

A convict is suing the state of South Carolina because he is barred from smoking pot in jail, a report says.

Chicago’s outgoing Democrat mayor, Rahm Emanuel, says the way to defuse the Windy City’s pension bomb is to legalize and tax marijuana and build a city-owned casino.

China’s Global Times state propaganda newspaper published an article Wednesday blaming America’s lack of “values” for its opioid crisis and in particular the use of fentanyl, a highly deadly opioid primarily manufactured in China.

Michigan is set to become the latest state to legalize marijuana for recreational use Thursday and the first state in the Midwest to do so after voters gave the idea their blessing on November 6.

President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, who has adopted as his signature policy a violent nationwide crackdown on drug use, claimed in remarks on Monday that he uses marijuana “to stay awake.”

Stocks in companies dealing in cannabis- and marijuana-related products have risen since former Attorney General Jeff Sessions left the Trump administration, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-MA) published an op-ed Tuesday urging federal lawmakers to legalize marijuana nationwide on the same day the first recreational marijuana shops in Massachusetts opened their doors to the public.

The legal marijuana industry is celebrating the resignation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday afternoon.

A new poll released Friday shows incumbent Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher with a nine-point lead over Democrat challenger Harley Rouda with just days to go before the midterm elections on November 6.

Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg is spending $4 million to defeat incumbent Republican Dana Rohrabacher — making the race for California’s 48th congressional district the most expensive in the country.

Republican incumbent Dana Rohrabacher has taken a small lead in the race for California’s 48th congressional district in the latest Monmouth University poll, after Democrat Harley Rouda stumbled in a recent debate.

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) accompanied a busload of senior citizens Tuesday to a marijuana dispensary in nearby Santa Ana, California, to discuss the benefits of medical marijuana and advocate for its full legalization.

Republican Dana Rohrabacher called out Democrat Harley Rouda for supporting Medicare for illegal aliens — and had the video evidence to prove it.

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), long a champion of legalizing marijuana, told the Fox Business Network on Thursday that President Donald Trump intends to reform federal policies on marijuana after the midterm elections in November.

Bloomberg reports that Privateer Holdings Inc.owns 76 percent of Tilray, the Canadian marijuana company whose shares soared 65 percent on Wednesday.

MedMen that operates legal Southern California marijuana dispensaries is running billboards to shame the public into not referring to users as “stoners,” according to the LA Times.

The Associated Press reported Monday that 18 percent of recreational marijuana products in California have failed potency and health risk testing since July 1.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made an appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience, Thursday, where he smoked weed with the show’s host Joe Rogan.

With a new minor in “Marijuana Studies,” New Jersey’s Stockton University is launching an academic discipline that might be more about taking it easy than taking on a discipline.

City workers in a Wyoming town had to do some “weeding” after a few pranksters planted some pot into the community’s potted plants.

LONDON (AP) — The British government announced Tuesday it would move to lift its ban on cannabis-based medicines, amid mounting criticism over the denial of treatment to severely epileptic children. But it rejected calls to legalize marijuana for recreational use.

President Donald Trump told a gaggle of reporters Friday that he will “probably” support efforts by Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) to end the federal ban on marijuana in states that have legalized it.