More than 2,000 people registered for Illinois medical marijuana identification cards in the first three days of applications, dwarfing the number the program's administrators had envisioned, the state announced Friday.
Now that growing and selling marijuana are legitimate businesses in Colorado and Washington, the injustice of sending people to prison for engaging in those activities is starker than ever before.
A broad new survey shows that a majority of American adults continue to support marijuana legalization in the United States, and that support appears to be growing.
Marijuana industry workers and advocates spoke out against proposed state changes to both retail and medical marijuana rules in a public hearing Tuesday.
The state of Illinois is taking another big step in medical marijuana this week. Tuesday is the first day residents can apply for a medical marijuana card.