Advocates behind a ballot-box push to decriminalize drugs and expand treatment and recovery services in Washington State have survived a court challenge to the second iteration of their voter initiative planned for November. The revised proposal, Initiative 1922, is almost identical to the group’s decriminalization ballot measure filed earlier... Read more

The U.S. attorney general on Tuesday reiterated that he believes it is “not an efficient use” of federal resources to go after people for possessing marijuana. But he declined to directly answer a senator’s question on whether the Justice Department would be reinstating Obama-era enforcement guidance on not interfering... Read more

Activists in Denton, Texas say they’re confident that they’ve collected enough signatures to place a marijuana decriminalization initiative on the local ballot. The group Decriminalize Denton said that it will continue collecting additional petitions until May 3 while it also works to verify the more than 2,500 signatures that... Read more