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What's up, My name is Dre GainezZ and I am hosting the 420 Voter Registration, Education and Campaign Rally in Oklahoma City, Ok on Friday April 20th, 2018 in Oklahoma City, Ok. Oklahoma State Question 788 to legalize medical cannabis is coming up for vote in 2018. We're getting all hand on...

There's only a few weeks to go before California adults can legally buy marijuana in jurisdictions where local governments permit, and Long Beach officials want to get the message out that "driving high" is a bad idea. City government's Health and Human Services Department plans to spend a...

Melissa Etheridge has become a passionate advocate for medical marijuana. The Kansas native used it when she had breast cancer and in recent days loaned her famous voice to the campaign to legalize it in Missouri. Recreational pot is legal in California, where she lives. But the reality that...

With all the debate surrounding cannabis legalization, it can sometimes be easy to forget that there are real people behind the politics. New Jersey photographer Erica Brown is doing her part to change that. Brown is the founder of the social media campaign The Cannabis Project, a photo...

Marijuana is legal in Massachusetts, driving while high on the substance is not. That's the message from state public safety officials, who are running ads as part of an awareness campaign months after voters broadly legalized the use of recreational marijuana in the Bay State. "Drive...

For this year's iteration of Colorado's campaign to discourage underage marijuana use, the state teamed up with TEDxMileHigh and media company Cactus to take teens on immersive field trips with movers and shakers across Denver. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment''s...

A campaign to once again try to fully legalize marijuana in Michigan is getting big support from a Washington D.C. nonprofit activist group and from a tobacco store company that has talked of opening a chain of marijuana shops in the state. The donor list, revealed in the latest campaign...

Members of the Guyana Hemp Association and its affiliates, including the newly formed Hemp for Victory Guyana Campaign Committee, have renewed their call for an engagement with President David Granger on the establishment of a viable Industrial Hemp Industry in Guyana. The groups are of the...

New public service announcements in Colorado aim to keep people's attention on using marijuana and marijuana-related products safely and responsibly. The Marijuana Industry Group (MIG), a trade association representing marijuana businesses, is backing the campaign. MIG touts itself as the...

Among other things, in the 2017 Equinox "Commit to something" campaign. Notoriously provocative fashion and celebrity (Kylie Jenner, Kate Moss, etc.) photographer Steven Klein is back at it with Equinox, shooting the slick gym's 2017 ad campaign, which was released today. The brand's "commit...

Denver - It's 4:20 somewhere. Start low. Go slow. Please consume responsibly. If you're gonna dab, take a cab. Lock it up. Keep it from your curious kids. Please consume your cannabis responsibly. The above slogans will be just a few of the ads people will start seeing across Colorado...

The recount of the marijuana legalization vote moved into its second week Monday with the No on 1 campaign picking up a small number of votes. The recount of the contentious ballot issue began last Monday and focused on the largest cities in Maine, including Portland and Bangor. Sixteen...

Remember how prosecutors in Arizona took big money the drug company Insys Therapeutics to defeat the initiative that would have legalized small amounts of marijuana? Well, prosecutors in Massachusetts busted former executives of that same company on charges of racketeering, with allegations...

Marijuana legalization opponents who requested a statewide recount of the Nov. 8 referendum results failed to provide a full roster of ballot counters for the first two-and-a-half days of the process, but said the slots were filled Wednesday afternoon. The Yes on 1 campaign, which backed the...

Supporters of a referendum effort to legalize marijuana in Maine claimed victory Wednesday, while opponents refused to concede and suggested there could be a recount. With 98 percent of precincts reporting, 50.2 percent of voters supported legal marijuana for adults 21 and older. The "yes"...

Californians overwhelmingly said yes to recreational marijuana on Election Day. Those in favor of the decision owe a big thanks to billionaire Silicon Valley fixture Sean Parker. The former Facebook president and founder of Napster contributed $8.5 million to the effort to legalize...

The chairman of the campaign to legalize marijuana in Arizona is acknowledging the issue could be decided by fewer than 4,000 votes. The acknowledgment by the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol's J.P. Holyoak comes as the campaign received an infusion of $750,000 for Proposition 205...

Proponents of efforts to regulate the cannabis industry in Calaveras County have received and spent more money than the rest of the contested battles combined in advance of the Nov. 8 election. Statements submitted last week by the Yes on D, Calaveras for Cannabis Control and Regulation...

Las Cruces - Former Gov. Gary Johnson surprised many of his Republican colleagues in New Mexico when he launched a national campaign to legalize marijuana after winning re-election in 1998. Now running for president on the Libertarian Party ticket, Johnson speaks proudly of that campaign...

The activist who spearheaded the grassroots campaign to legalize medical marijuana in Pennsylvania has been hired by the state to serve as the patient liaison for the Department of Health's cannabis program. Latrisha "Lolly" Bentch, 37, was a founding member of Campaign for Compassion, a...