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In a new ESPN survey of more than 220 current NFL players, 61 percent of players said that if cannabis were a legal option, fewer players would take powerful pain-killing injections.

Updated Monday, Nov. 7: As a wild campaign season draws to a close, some states (California!) are emerging as winners and some (sorry, Montana) as also-rans. Arkansas is trending up, and we now think Massachusetts will pass.

“I honestly thought before that he didn’t know I was his mom. I feel like he knows now.”

Wee-hour campaign calls urging a no vote on medical marijuana woke up hundreds in the state this weekend, annoying and sometimes scaring voters.

The District’s patients may finally be able to shop at more than one dispensary.

In a last-ditch effort, the Boston Archdiocese donated $850,000 to the effort to defeat a state ballot measure to legalize cannabis.

In campaign ads, Sheila Polk (right) and Arizonans against Prop. 205 make false claims about Colorado. Colorado’s Congressional delegation tells them to cease and desist.

Las Vegas casino owner Sheldon Adelson has donated tens of millions of dollars to cannabis prohibition causes. But why?

An Arkansas legalization initiative bites the dust, Alaska opens its first testing lag, and why are some Florida ballots missing Amendment 2?

Yesterday, voters had two medical marijuana measures to choose from. Today, they have one.