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Cannabis advocates are about to descend on the U.N., Bill Maher talks cannabis and the creative process, and criminal penalties are still outrageous.

While a lung-full of marijuana can reduce some consumers to a puddle of silliness and sloth — you know who you are — the fact remains: Cannabis can serve a host of creative uses.

Several top state political leaders threw their backing behind a group established to oppose legalization of recreational marijuana. Critics called it “reefer madness.”

Nevada and Rhode Island are making progress, but Vermont’s efforts to legalize have stalled. Ohio legislators made a bold new medical proposal, and Pennsylvania is so close they can almost smell it.

Pennsylvania is set to become the latest state to legalize as the Legislature sent a bill to the governor on Wednesday, after hearing from parents of children suffering from debilitating seizures.

“It’s absolutely, finally over!” said the founder of the Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana, one of the nation’s first state-legal dispensaries, after a court action this week.

Efforts in recent weeks have focused on hammering out the complicated details of how to strongly regulate a new industry and get it up and running as quickly as possible.

The Mexican Catholic church supports medical use, French politicians are arguing over decriminalization, and a 10-year-old girl moved from Texas to California for medical cannabis.

Colorado schools would be forced to allow students to use medical cannabis under a bill that cleared its first hurdle Monday at the state Legislature.

Ohio’s medical cannabis bill finds an unlikely ally, MassRoots wants to be on NASDAQ, and “Britain’s most charming drug smuggler” dies.