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The New York Department of Health is streamlining registration and certification for the state’s medical marijuana program to meet growing demand.

After sharp divisions in the Massachusetts legislature over recreational marijuana laws, it’s up to a conference committee to try and sort everything out.

Op-ed: Jeff Sessions’s mandatory minimum sentencing directive risks reigniting the “war on drugs” that has jeopardized the nation’s criminal justice system.

Seven Bay Area TSA airport screeners face charges of receiving bribes and turning a blind eye as cocaine and marijuana went through their X-ray machines.

A six-member Massachusetts House and Senate conference committee has begun work behind closed doors trying to hammer out a compromise bill making changes to the recreational marijuana law.

The Rainbow Family weeklong peace festival in eastern Oregon is raising questions about how federal prosecutors will handle marijuana use at the event.

The marijuana industry is eager for the fast-approaching July 1 kickoff of recreational sales in Nevada, where demand from tourists is expected to eventually make the state’s market bigger than other states where it’s legal.

SALT LAKE CITY — Activists who say they are tired of waiting for Utah’s conservative Legislature to pass a broad medical marijuana law launched an effort Monday to ask voters next year to pass the law, a move that would bypass state lawmakers. People with chronic, painful conditions who want…

Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates says Sessions is out of touch with broad bipartisan consensus regarding the harm of mandatory minimum drug sentences.