BY DAVID SIDERSSAN JOSE Bernie Sanders, who said last week that he had not yet studied a California measure to legalize marijuana for recreational use, on Wednesday endorsed the initiative. “I do not live in California,” the Vermont senator told supporters at a rally here. “But if I lived in... Read more

The initiative would allow an individual aged 21 or older to possess and use as much as an ounce of marijuana for private recreational use, and permit personal cultivation of as many as six plants. Supporters of a drive to legalize recreational marijuana for adults in California said on Wednesday... Read more

By Amber Norori The Dail Califonian When you think about what greens are helping to extend California’s drought, you probably don’t think of cannabis, but in California, marijuana and alfalfa may have more in common than you think. California is, in fact, responsible for two-thirds of the agriculture produced in... Read more

by Anthony JohnsonMarijuana Politics The Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) has been backed by some political and activist heavyweights and it got announced a big endorsement today from California Congressman Ted Lieu, who represents the 33rd congressional district out of Los Angeles County. Representative Lieu isn’t new to cannabis activism,... Read more

By Lynne Lyman - “Marijuana is practically legal in California already.” Every time I hear this, which is often, I cringe. You certainly wouldn’t hear this in any urban center from the people, largely black or brown, who bear the weight of our prohibitionist laws. You wouldn’t hear this from the... Read more

By Christopher Ingraham - A group of more than 50 physicians, including a former surgeon general and faculty members at some of the nation's leading medical schools, has formed the first national organization of doctors to call on states and the federal government to legalize and regulate the use of... Read more

BY CHRISTOPHER CADELAGO The concept of legalized marijuana is rapidly gaining in popularity, a new poll finds. The survey, released Friday by the Associated Press and University of Chicago, shows that 61 percent of Americans believe the drug should be legal in the U.S. compared with 39 percent who do... Read more

BY: DENNIS ROMERO It's likely you'll get to vote on recreational pot legalization in November.  The Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) has the backing of tech billionaire Sean Parker and of Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom. Aiming to allow those 21 and older to possess up to one ounce of weed without... Read more

By Brooke Edwards, Staff Writer There are increasing signs that 2016 might just be the year the largest state in the nation legalizes recreational marijuana.Polls have shown from 56 percent to 60 percent of California’s likely voters in the November presidential contest support legal pot. And due in part to hefty... Read more

  SACRAMENTO—Today, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), the nation’s oldest and largest marijuana law reform organization, announced that its Board of Directors has formally voted to endorse the California ballot measure known as the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act. Since its founding in... Read more