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Hillary Clinton’s VP pick has strong mainstream establishment credentials. For the cannabis-conscious voter, though, Kaine can be described in one word: unimpressive.

Less than two weeks after L.A. County supervisors agreed to move forward with a 10 percent tax on cannabis businesses in order to fund homeless services, the proposal’s author wants to shelve the plan.

The Carol Jenkins Barnett Family Trust donated $800,000 in mid-July to a group campaigning to kill Florida’s proposed medical cannabis amendment.

On the eve of the Democratic National Convention’s opening, America’s cannabis caucus held a fundraiser that put the party on notice: The era of legalization and legitimacy has arrived.

For the sake of America’s future drug policy, we tried to pin down exactly how Hillary Clinton feels — officially, at least — about cannabis.

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s cannabis antipathy is evidenced in word, deed, and voting record. And that could cost her at the polls.

Medical use is up for discussion in Germany, while Italian officials will mull both medical and adult-use consumption.

Delegate Dan Morhaim said he wished he’d been more transparent about his business connection to the cannabis industry prior to championing MMJ legalization.

It’s a huge step forward for a party that still officially refuses to acknowledge even the medicinal benefits of cannabis.

Having a staunch prohibitionist underwrite the GOP, and thereby amass influence over the party’s nominee, policies, and direction, does not bode well for legalization.