News Brief

The trend line is looking good for marijuana legalization. It's gone up 15 points in 10 years and now stands at 46% nationwide.

Will a Tea Party tidal wave swamp Oregon's dispensary initiative or will young voters be enthused enough to save it?

Two more polls show Prop 19 losing, but with some grounds for hope.

It looks like South Dakota's medical marijuana initiative is in trouble, at least according to two recent polls.

Sunday's Field poll is the latest in a string of polls showing Proposition 19 losing on Tuesday. Can a surge of "unlikely voters" prove the pollsters wrong? We'll find out in just over 48 hours.

Two recent polls have Prop 19 losing. Is this the "Reverse Bradley Effect" at work? Let's hope so.

Opponents of Prop 19 heckled Richard Lee last weekend at a debate on the measure's merits. Surely we can do better than that.

Two out of three polls this week show Prop 19 trailing, and today's LA Times/USC poll has the worst numbers yet. Ongoing get-out-the-vote efforts, or a late turnout surge, would be the initiative's best chance to free the weed this year.

George Soros has come through with a million bucks for Prop 19. This last minute boost could put the measure over the top.

The California Chamber of Commerce doesn't want employers to lose the ability to fire unimpaired workers who fail a drug test for pot, so it's now throwing $250,000 into an anti-Prop 19 radio ad campaign.