In the three states and the District of Columbia that had marijuana legalization measures on the 2014 ballot, ending some prohibition on a plant was more popular than many politicians who ran for statewide office and won. That was true even in Florida, where the medical marijuana ballot measure lost.

On March 23, when Willian Guillen's shift at the Peruvian restaurant Millenium Chicken on New York's Long Island ended around midnight, he and co-chef Neptali Robles walked to a nearby restaurant for post-work takeout food. While they waited for their order of papusas, they stopped to say hello to a...

With Democrats holding the White House and Republicans controlling both chambers of Congress, it's been suggested that the odds are slim of any major legislation becoming law over the next two years.

But officials in the Obama administration and on Capitol Hill say there is one issue that may...

A new Gallup poll shows that while a majority of Americans still support legalization of marijuana, that majority has thinned out significantly in only a year's time. The poll comes as momentum for marijuana legalization appears to be stronger than ever, with residents of two states and the District of...

Colorado's Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper defeated his Republican challenger, former Rep. Bob Beauprez, in the state's competitive gubernatorial race Tuesday.

Polls have been tight for months in the race between Hickenlooper and Beauprez, and remained so right up to Election Day. A Quinnipiac poll released Monday showed...

Voters in several states on Tuesday dealt blows to the United States' decades-long drug war, passing measures to legalize marijuana for recreational use, decriminalize possession of it and shorten the time nonviolent drug offenders spend behind bars.

Despite the changes, marijuana is still classified as a Schedule I substance by...

Alaska legalized recreational marijuana for adult use on Tuesday, becoming the fourth state in the nation to do so.

The state joined Oregon and Washington, D.C., both of which also voted Tuesday to legalize the drug for recreational use. Colorado and Washington state legalized recreational cannabis...

The reformation of marijuana laws across the nation took another step forward Tuesday when voters in Oregon approved a measure to legalize the drug for recreational use.

Voters passed Measure 91, which legalizes the possession, use and sale of recreational marijuana for adults 21 and over. Oregon becomes the third...

In yet another blow to the United States' decades-long war on drugs, the nation's capital has legalized recreational marijuana, NPR and USA Today reported Tuesday night.

Washington, D.C., voters on Tuesday approved Initiative 71, which legalizes adult marijuana use, possession of up to two ounces and home...

Rep. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) defeated incumbent Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) in one of the country's most competitive Senate contests Tuesday, the Associated Press reports.

Udall, first elected to the Senate in 2008, had been considered one of the most vulnerable Democratic incumbents, dragged down by his attacks on Gardner...

Although polls have found almost 90 percent public support for medical marijuana in Florida, a state measure that would have legalized cannabis for medicinal purposes failed on Tuesday.

A majority of voters approved of Amendment 2, about 57 percent, but state law requires a supermajority of support -- 60 percent...

The result of the hotly contested gubernatorial election in Colorado couldn't mean more to one man: Nathan Dunlap, a convicted murderer who has been on death row in the state for almost 20 years.

In 1996, Dunlap was sentenced to death for the 1993 murder of four employees...

On Tuesday, voters in several states have the chance to deal significant blows to the United States' decades-long failure of a drug war. State and local measures on the ballot could legalize recreational or medical marijuana, decriminalize possession of the plant and serve to shorten the time nonviolent drug offenders...

Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) said in an op-ed on Friday that marijuana legalization is "sound policy," and he urged Oregonians to follow in Colorado's footsteps and vote yes on recreational marijuana in next week's election.

"Colorado is approaching the first anniversary of legally regulated recreational marijuana for adults,"

A coalition of law enforcers has come out in support of marijuana legalization in Oregon, less than a week before voters will decide the issue at the polls.

"Treating marijuana as a crime has failed," 30 former police officers, sheriffs, prosecutors and judges write in a letter released...

Federal agents along with local Denver police conducted multiple raids on marijuana growing operations around Colorado's capital city Tuesday morning.

The Denver Police Department declined to speak about the details of Tuesday's raids, citing an ongoing investigation, but tweeted this statement:

ALERT: Area law enforcement are conducting an...

If Alaska voters decide in next week's election to legalize marijuana, sales to adults will generate millions in state tax revenue.

That's according to a comprehensive report released Monday by the Marijuana Policy Group, an organization of Colorado researchers and economic consultants.

The first year of legal...

LOS ANGELES -- Agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration raided two legal medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles on Thursday that, according to multiple staff members, were fully compliant with state laws.

The Department of Justice confirmed to The Huffington Post after the raid that it was executing a search...

West Africa’s public infrastructure is now collapsing under the burden of the Ebola outbreak. But the health and political systems in that region were already under attack from another deadly force -- drug trafficking and the harsh criminal response so frequently wielded in the global war on drugs.

What makes...

If all 50 states legalized marijuana and the federal government ended prohibition of the plant, the marijuana industry in the United States would be worth $35 billion just six years from now.

That's according to a new report from GreenWave Advisors, a research and advisory firm that serves...