State & Local Legislatures

Rhode Island is set to see its first dispensary open next, Mendocino County faces down the feds, and more news from around the country.

Medical marijuana legislation has cleared the Maryland legislature, and the governor has said he will sign it, but it's unclear just when and where patients will be able to obtain their medicine.

With Alabama and Pennsylvania officially coming on board, there are now eight states that have seen marijuana legalization bills introduced this year.

Marijuana legalization bills have been introduced in eight states this year. One is actually moving in Oregon.

First marijuana legalization and now decriminalization. Marijuana law reform (except for medical marijuana) is dead this year in Hawaii, and probably next year, too.

Medical marijuana bills were laid to rest in two states this week, changes in the medical marijuana law went into effect in another, and Massachusetts now appears set to open dispensaries by year's end. There's more news, too.

It's no April Fools' Day joke -- Rhode Island has decriminalized marijuana.

Hemp has made it through the legislature in Kentucky. Now, will the Democratic governor sign the Republican-supported bill?

Republican legislators in Kansas and Texas advanced public benefits drug testing bills this week.

There is plenty of action in state legislatures, the battle over rescheduling continues, a Maine dispensary gets called out for using pesticides, and much more.