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Medical marijuana could be the law in the majority of states by the time Election Day is over.

And if California votes to legalize, other states will follow.

The Drug Enforcement Administration says marijuana lacks medical value. So why did the U.S. government file a patent for cannabis — specifying that the plant has multiple therapeutic benefits — as far back as 1999?

The Vermont progressive has introduced legislation that would free states to regulate it as they see fit.

This year is already the most important year in the history of the movement to end marijuana prohibition in the United States.

The Obama administration is planning to remove a major roadblock to marijuana research, officials said Wednesday, potentially spurring broad scientific study of a drug that is being used to treat dozens of diseases in states across the nation despite little rigorous evidence of its effectiveness.

The Drug Enforcement Administration announced Thursday that it is ending the federal government’s decades-long monopoly on cultivation of marijuana for research purposes, a move that is expected to usher in more scientific analysis of the plant’s medical benefits.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Thirteen percent of U.S. adults tell Gallup they currently smoke marijuana, nearly double the percentage who reported smoking marijuana only three years ago.

Voters in nine states will get to decide whether to liberalize laws involving marijuana this year in a rush of ballot measures that pro-pot activists see as a critical tipping point in the fight over legalization.

Once an issue reserved for dreadlocked Green Party supporters, marijuana legalization has become a mainstream political topic.

Discussion now shifting to talk of regulation issues.

California’s lieutenant governor fully supports legalizing recreational pot.

WASHINGTON – Democrats meeting in Philadelphia have made history, voting to approve a national platform that endorses a “pathway” for the legalization of marijuana.

Hundreds of demonstrators on Monday marched from City Hall to the Wells Fargo Center – site of the Democratic National Convention – with a message calling for the legalization of marijuana.

PHILADELPHIA — Marijuana has gone mainstream at the Democratic National Convention this week.

Republicans Against Marijuana Prohibition (RAMP) take on the RNC.

For the first time Republicans narrowly support legalizing marijuana.

Activists celebrate the strides they've made in a once intractable issue in recent years.

Legal cannabis has been a hot topic in the march to Election Night 2016.

See where medical marijuana is legal and on the ballot this November.