Marijuana legalization looked like it was on a roll in the Northeast a year ago. Then legislative efforts stalled, and a vaping sickness stirred new concerns. Could 2020 bring legalization?

The new year in New Jersey brings not only balloons and toasts. It also brings new laws. A list of measures from New Jersey’s Office of Legislative Services shows 18 new laws taking effect in 2020. Among them is a measure barring employers from using salary history to screen potential workers. A proposed constitutional amendment to allow recreational marijuana will…

In the first year that recreational marijuana was legal in Vermont, the number of drivers arrested by state police for impaired driving who had THC in their systems more than doubled, according to state police data requested by The Associated Press. While some police believe the increase in 2018 shows more people are using cannabis and driving since legalization, other…

New Jersey took steps toward making three high-profile measures law in the Garden State. The issues involved eliminating religious exemptions for vaccines, allowing licenses for undocumented immigrants and voting on recreational marijuana. NBC10’s Miguel Martinez-Valle shares details.

Monday marked big steps for three proposed bills in New Jersey. The measures involve eliminating religious exemptions for vaccines, licenses for undocumented immigrants and voting on recreational marijuana. NBC10’s Jim Rosenfield explains.

A super-majority of New Jersey lawmakers on Monday passed a proposed ballot question to legalize recreational marijuana, putting the referendum before voters on the 2020 ballot.

Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association agreed to begin testing for opioids, cocaine, fentanyl and synthetic THC. They will also remove marijuana from the list of drugs of abuse.

Major League Baseball will start testing for opioids and cocaine. But only players who do not cooperate with their treatment plans will be subject to discipline. Marijuana will be removed from the list of drugs of abuse and will be treated the same as alcohol as part of changes to the joint drug agreement between MLB and the players’ association....

Willie Nelson may have given up smoking, but he hasn’t stopped using marijuana. While in San Antonio last week for two performances, the 86-year-old country music legend told KSAT TV that in an effort to take better care of himself, he no longer smokes. The longtime marijuana advocate says he “started smoking cedar bark, went from that to cigarettes to...

America’s proudest pothead has decided to hang up his joint. Willie Nelson, the country music luminary whose name is practically synonymous with lighting up, said in a recent interview that he has stopped smoking marijuana due to breathing issues. “I have abused my lungs quite a bit in the past, so breathing is a little more difficult these days...

As health officials scrutinize marijuana vaping, it’s increasingly on law enforcement’s radar, too. From New York City to Nebraska farm country to California, authorities have seized at least 510,000 marijuana vape cartridges and arrested more than 120 people in the past two years, according to an Associated Press tally derived from interviews, court records, news accounts and official releases. A…

Prosecutors are planning to drop all charges in a New York City case that spotlighted how similarities between legal hemp plants and marijuana can cause confusion

New Jersey legislative leaders intend to put a measure on the Nov. 2020 ballot asking voters to legalize marijuana.

Two Los Angeles men face drug charges in Connecticut after troopers pulled over a rental truck filled with marijuana.

Pennsylvania’s top law enforcement officer is joining several other top state Democratic officials in backing the legalization of marijuana for recreational use by adults.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that would grant legal marijuana businesses access to banking, a measure that would clear up a longstanding headache for the industry. The bill, called the SAFE Banking Act, passed 321-103 on the strength of near-unanimous support from Democrats and nearly half of Republicans. Its prospects in the Senate are uncertain, but...

Gov. Tom Wolf says he is now in favor of legalizing marijuana for recreational use in Pennsylvania, and is asking lawmakers to consider it.

Lilly Singh talks about the legalization of marijuana in California and reveals why the first time she tried it was horrible.

Federal health officials issued a national warning Thursday against marijuana use by adolescents and pregnant women, as more states legalize the increasingly potent drug for medicinal and recreational use. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Surgeon General Jerome Adams made the announcement, with Azar calling marijuana “a dangerous drug.” Officials said President Donald Trump has donated $100,000 —...

The Justice Department is moving forward to expand the number of marijuana growers for federally-authorized cannabis research.