Los Angeles is in line to become the nation’s largest city with legal recreational marijuana after the City Council voted Wednesday to license sales and cultivation next year.

A recent poll in New York shows strong public support for legal pot, while Illinois has crushing budget pressures that make cannabis taxes very appealing.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Gov. Mary Fallin says she plans to set an election date for a medical marijuana ballot measure after the start of the new year.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Smoked pot? Want to go to war? No problem.

Vermont is on pace to become the first state in the U.S. to legalize marijuana through an act of lawmakers early next year.

A bipartisan group of members of Congress is asking House and Senate leadership to continue a current provision that protects state medical marijuana laws from federal interference.

A Republican senator from a state where marijuana is legal is pushing this week to give cannabis businesses a measure of tax fairness.

The majority of registered voters in New York support the legalization of marijuana, according to a new poll released on Monday.

The Trump administration should carefully consider how legalizing marijuana can help reduce opioid addiction and overdose deaths, Sen. Elizabeth Warren says.