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The attorney general has created intolerable uncertainty for a growing industry that is now demanding legal protections from Congress. And lawmakers are listening.

“Jeff Sessions is an old dinosaur with old ideas,” said one dispensary customer. “We have a younger, newer, more educated population who will vote that out. It won’t last."

The legal marijuana market could blaze across the United States in 2018.

LOS ANGELES — The arrival of the new year in California brings with it broad legalization of marijuana.

As it becomes clear that the American public is overwhelmingly in favor of legalizing cannabis, more politicians than ever began coming out in support of the marijuana movement over the past year.

2017 was a year of both setbacks and progress for veterans and their supporters, seeking greater access to legal medical marijuana.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s legal pot market opens for business on Jan. 1.

Advocates seeking increased medical marijuana access for vets aren't convinced the Department of Veterans Affairs' new directive moves the needle for patients.

One of the world’s most famous scientists says that the U.S. government’s classification of marijuana has absolutely nothing to do with science.

Sen. Orrin Hatch supports efforts in Utah and elsewhere to study the medicinal effects of marijuana, but condemns the federal "regulatory acrobatics" required of researchers studying the plant.

2017 is coming to a close, and unfortunately it didn’t offer up as many highlights when it comes to marijuana as 2016. But that trend may change next year.

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.

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

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

The increase has come amid increasingly visible advocacy from veterans’ groups.

A new bill introduced in the U.S. Senate this week would allow Washington D.C. to finally take steps to begin recreational cannabis sales, Marijuana Moment reports.

New Jersey will reap approximately $300 million in annual tax revenue after legalizing recreational marijuana, but that's not the top reason why Governor-elect Phil Murphy wants to repeal pot prohibition in the Garden State.