Marijuana Legislation

Governor Tom Wolf announced this week that eight medical schools—including the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Penn State College of Medicine—have been approved by the state to conduct medical marijuana research.

In December 2015, with much fanfare and political grandstanding, the Pittsburgh City Council announced it had passed an ordinance decriminalizing cannabis.

In New York, it's getting real. You can almost taste it. Cannabis legalization appears to be getting closer to reality.

A new poll out of Georgia reveals that most voters in the peach state are in favor of legalizing recreational marijuana.

As more and more states jump on the cannabis legalization bandwagon, one sticky problem is slowly being addressed: How does society make things right again for those who were previously convicted of marijuana possession? Individual states — and, indeed, individual...

Earlier this week, the U.S Supreme Court overturned the country’s prohibition on sports gambling.

On Tuesday, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the New York Police Department will unveil a plan within 30 days to drastically reduce arrests for marijuana possession.

There is no disputing the progress that has been made over the past year, but there are still some major roadblocks on Capitol Hill preventing the decline of marijuana prohibition at the national level. Like this guy.

A major investigation by the New York Times finds continued racial disparities in marijuana enforcement and arrests in every neighborhood in New York City.

In Ohio, recreational cannabis took a huge step forward. Find out more in our weekly marijuana legislative roundup.