A sign encouraging voters to vote for Amendment 3, legalizing recreational marijuana use in Missouri, sits near a sidewalk at St. Andrew's Episcopal church. The church was a polling location in Kansas ...

Kansas City’s municipal courts now have zero open or pending marijuana cases, according to city officials. Since Amendment 3 passed on Nov. 8, the city’s municipal courts have worked to either dismiss ...

At the same time when courts are required to dig through decades of non-digitized records for expungements, they are also involved in a large redacting project to make court records accessible online.

The changes to the Missouri Constitution that voters approved as Amendment 3 this week will take effect in a little under a month, and the state's legal system is already preparing to take them on.

Floridians Protecting Freedom and Smart & Safe Florida, the organizations promoting the proposed constitutional amendments, are already raising more money and positioning campaigns aimed at gaining ...

Marijuana cases are placing an unnecessary burden on the region’s criminal justice system, according to a new study by the Lehigh Valley Justice Institute. The research and advocacy group based in ...

Baked into the 39-page text of the recently passed amendment legalizing recreational marijuana in Missouri is a section mandating expungements for marijuana convictions -- a section some Missouri ...

PROVIDENCE — Rhode Island Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul A. Suttell on Friday unveiled the court rules for potentially thousands of Rhode Islanders to clear their records of past marijuana charges, ...

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Police can't tell the difference between hemp and marijuana. Neither can the state experts who test drugs. North Carolina courts don't seem to mind, even though one is legal and the other can lead to ...

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island became the 19th state to legalize recreational marijuana this May, joining our neighbors in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Under the new law, possession and home-growing of ...