Articles tagged with "California"

Do you have a Department of Public Health-issued medical marijuana ID card? If so, you’ve just gotten out of paying state tax on cannabis until 2018.

Here are our predictions for which US states could be the next to legalize cannabis.

Eight of nine US states considering cannabis legalization measures passed those laws on Tuesday, ushering in a new chapter for American cannabis.

California’s lieutenant governor, a champion of Prop. 64, explains how the law passed—and what to expect going forward.

Some changes happen immediately, but the long, complicated process of getting California’s legal market online is just beginning.

“I will vote for it, but I have not made a public statement about it until right this very second,” the US House minority leader told the LA Times on Friday.

For decades, cannabis was an issue that most elected officials assiduously avoided—unless they were attacking it. In this election, things have changed.

New study disproves, once again, the myth that “nobody goes to jail for cannabis anymore.” In California, thousands still do.

Dozens of cities and counties are contemplating tough restrictions on cannabis sales and cultivation in anticipation of Prop. 64’s passage.

Some of the Prop. 64 campaign’s most visible endorsers are officials who “can’t stand” cannabis and “don’t advocate” its consumption. What gives?