Ballot Measures

The religious right is rising up to contest an Arkansas medical marijuana initiative, but the pot people have some ecumenical resources on their side, too.

A municipal initiative to make marijuana possession the lowest law enforcement priority has come up just short in Portland, Maine.

A new poll has Coloradans voicing majority support for marijuana legalization, but just barely.

The first horse is out of the gate in the California 2012 marijuana legalization initiative sweepstakes.

An initiative that would legalize possession of up to an ounce of pot (or the harvest of up to six plants) and tax and regulate commercial sales is now gathering signatures in Colorado.

Miami Beach could become the first city in Florida to decriminalize pot possession after campaigners handed in more than double the number of voter signatures they needed to put a measure on the ballot.

One Washington state marijuana legalization initiative is dead, but another, less radical, one is just getting underway.

An initiative making adult pot possession the lowest law enforcement priority in Portland, Maine, has handed in more than enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot.

The Mississippi Tea Party and some of its affiliates claim to want to impose a welfare drug testing program of a type already found unconstitutional by the federal judiciary.

A judge's ruling Thursday is a "partial victory" for medical marijuana in Montana, advocates said. But this is by no means the end of the fight.