A push to legalize commercial marijuana sales in Vermont took another step forward on Wednesday, with the House Ways and Means Committee voting to advance a bill to license and tax cannabis businesses.

Rhode Island’s governor is pitching an unconventional recreational marijuana legalization plan centered on state-owned stores operated by private contractors, which would offer modest business opportunities for cannabis entrepreneurs.

Marijuana legalization campaigns will increasingly run through state capitols as Congress remains stalled, advocates say.

Marijuana reform advocates are hitting back at President Trump’s suggestion that cannabis use makes people lose IQ points.

More than 40 U.S. states could allow some form of legal marijuana by the end of 2020, including deep red Mississippi and South Dakota — and they’re doing it with the help of some conservatives.

MPP’s Don Murphy discusses congressional efforts to legalize marijuana on the federal level on C-SPAN.

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