For the first time ever Pew Research found a majority now support marijuana legalization. According to the poll, 52 percent say marijuana should be legal, while only 45 percent of Americans believe it should still be illegal. This is not the first national pollster to find that more than half of the country thinks marijuana [...]

Check out this video of Firedoglake’s senior policy analyst Jon Walker discussing the growing national support for marijuana reform on Current TV’s “The War Room” with Michael Shure this week. Jon discusses the evolution of public perception on legalizing marijuana, drawing parallels to that of marriage equality.

With the Supreme Court set to hear testimony on same-sex marriage cases this week there has been a lot of talk about how the demographics is destiny for the issue. Many have pointed to that a new Washington Post poll that found 81 percent of adults under the age of 30 support marriage equality, which [...]

We now have our first really good preview of how the legal market for marijuana will likely work in Colorado. The task force created by Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) to come up with recommendations on how to implement the newly approved Amendment 64 has finally released its official report. While the state government will probably not [...]

It has been four months since voters in Washington State and Colorado overwhelmingly decided to legalize marijuana for adults and there still has been no indication of how the Obama administration plans to handle the federal/state conflict. Whenever US Attorney General Eric Holder is directly asked about it by governors, state attorneys general or senators [...]