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Marijuana supporters nationwide awoke on November 3rd to find they had been defeated in all four statewide initiatives on the ballot. While losing these battles is not good news for our movement, the lessons we’ve learned and coalitions we’ve formed will help us win the war even sooner.
California’s Prop 19 received 3.4 million votes for [...]

California’s marijuana legalization initiative, Proposition 19, didn’t win a majority of votes, but it already represents an extraordinary victory for the broader movement to legalize marijuana.
What’s most important is the way its …

Ever wonder what local marijuana enthusiast Marc Emery is thinking as he spends his days in a federal prison in Washington State?
I asked that question after reading a piece in the New York Times Sunday about the Proposition 19 ballot initiative to leg…

Following Tuesday night’s defeat of Prop. 19, I made the following statement to the press:
“Throughout this campaign, even our opponents conceded that America’s present marijuana prohibition is a failure. They recognize that the question now isn’t ‘Should we legalize and regulate marijuana,’ but ‘How should we legalize and regulate marijuana?’”
A just-released, comprehensive post-election poll of [...]

It seemed an easy sell in California: The state that gave us medical marijuana would allow pot for recreation.
Then came the ads, newspaper editorials and politicians, warning of a world where stoned drivers would crash school buses, nurses would sh…

[Friday morning update!] In California, voters decided 46 percent to 54 percent, against Prop. 19, which sought to legalize the adult possession of limited quantities of marijuana in private, and to allow for local governments to regulate its commercial production and retail distribution. The 46+ percent (3,471,308 million Californians) voting ‘yes’ on Prop. 19 marks [...]

Prop 19, the ballot initiative that would have legalized marijuana in California, was defated Tuesday. Reports are still coming in, so we will have a final tally tomorrow morning.
 
Today was a defeat, but Prop 19 itself was an overall victo…

It’s on. Voters across the nation are taking to the polls.
NORML will be closely following today’s election results — from the historic vote on California’s Prop. 19, to the statewide votes in Arizona (Prop. 203), Oregon (Measure 74), and South Dakota (Measure 13).
NORML’s podcast producer Russ Belville will be broadcasting election day and night coverage [...]

iGrow Medical Marijuana: A California Growth Industry

The California economy is in trouble, but there's at least one industry in the state that's booming: medical marijuana. Even though medical marijuana has been legal in California since 19…

Californians are less than 24 hours away from making history.
On November 2, tens of millions of voters will enter the voting booth and decide ‘yes’ on Proposition 19 — which re-legalizes the adult, non-medical possession, use, and cultivation of cannabis in California. For the first time in 97 years, marijuana will be legal [...]