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Senate Committee OKs Basic Banking Services for Billion-Dollar Marijuana Industry
The Senate Appropriations Committee took a 16-14 vote Thursday to approve a measure that would make it easier for marijuana businesses to obtain basic banking services with financial institutions...
Voters Think Pot is Safer than Alcohol, But Who Will Legalize It Next?
While a majority of Americans - 52 percent - now favor weed legalization, the federal government has done very little to act on the changing views of the nation. Many states, however, have taken matte...
Will You Be Able to Vote in the 2016 Congressional Primaries?
When it comes time to vote in the 2016 congressional primary elections, will you be allowed to vote in the primary of your choice? We’ve updated our analysis on every state’s rules for its primary ele...
Next Year, Let's Celebrate the Fourth of July By Adding The 51st Star to the Flag
There's a Fourth of July celebration that hasn't happened during my lifetime. In fact, it was 55 years ago the last time it was celebrated -- the addition of the 49th and 50th stars to the Americ...
This is What Inevitability Looks Like: How Hillary Clinton Won the Invisible Primary (Part 2)
As discussed in the first part of this story, Hillary Clinton has spent the last few years repairing her image for the 2016 presidential election. An important aspect of this image-repair involve...
Legalizing Marijuana Polls Better than 2016 Presidential Field
A Quinnipiac University poll taken in March released Monday. It found that more than 80 percent of adults in key swing states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida supported legalizing the use of ...
Rand Paul and Cory Booker Push Historic Bill to Legalize Medical Marijuana
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) introduced a bill Tuesday that would end the federal prohibition on medical marijuana. The bip...
Report: Support for Marijuana Legalization Jumps 19 Points in 10 Years
On March 4, 2015, the General Social Study published its latest report examining the public's opinion on marijuana legalization. The study documents both the shift in popular consensus ...
Asm. Rob Bonta: Regulatory Structure Needed before Calf. Voters Legalize Pot
New measures aimed at improving the safety and legitimacy of medical marijuana might be hitting California in the future as state lawmakers consider a bill that would provide a regulatory structure fo...
Will Fight over Keystone Lead to More Pork-Barrel Spending?
On Monday, the Senate failed to reach cloture on the Keystone XL measure, signaling a long, bitter fight to come. With a 53-39 vote, cloture failed by 7 votes.The bitter fight was cut short ...