State & Local Legislatures

The Indiana House has passed a welfare drug testing bill despite a fiscal analysis showing it would be a net loser for the state, costing taxpayers more than $1 million a year.

North Dakota's legislature rejected a welfare drug testing bill Friday, even after it was amended to first require "reasonable suspicion."

Three bills dealing with marijuana law reform have been filed in Missouri.

A North Carolina House committee has not only failed to approve a medical marijuana bill, it has acted to ensure that the topic cannot be raised again this session.

Most of the action was at statehouses this week, but there was also news from the Harborside Health Center battle in California and an announcement that the nation's capital will soon have its first dispensary.

In the latest example of the drug testing fever sweeping Charleston, a West Virginia delegate has introduced a bill requiring teens to pass not one but three drug tests before being granted full drivers' licenses.

After the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that dispensaries are illegal, a conservative lawmker is introducing a bill that would allow them by local option.

What? Nothing happened in California? It's a rare week, but the quiet in the Golden State is being made up for by action in state legislatures around the land. And more.

A marijuana legalization bill has died in Hawaii after a head count found it would come up short in the House.

South Dakota lawmakers once again refuse the opportunity to reform the state's marijuana laws.