Medical marijuana will not become legal in Wisconsin next year or anytime soon, despite broadening support, the state Assembly's top Republican — himself an advocate for legalization — said Thursday.

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The push to legalize medical marijuana in Wisconsin grew Wednesday with the unveiling of a bill introduced for the first time by Republican lawmakers.

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It’s been a hard autumn for Jonathan Baker, the owner of TFP Sciences.

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The possession of small amounts of marijuana would be decriminalized in Wisconsin under a bill that Democratic lawmakers introduced Wednesday in their latest push to loosen Wisconsin's marijuana laws in the face of Republican opposition.

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When the Madison barber and business owner Brian Britt, 42, stepped up to a folding table in the entryway of the Urban League of Greater Madison, he had a single goal in his mind: Wipe from his record the decades-old criminal convictions he says are holding him back.

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Three more people have been charged in what investigators say was a large black-market operation for the manufacture of THC-vape cartridges in southeastern Wisconsin.

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Wisconsin's hemp industry would remain under state control as it enters its second year under a bill the state Senate approved on Tuesday.

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A Milwaukee man and woman are accused in an alleged counterfeit THC vape operation.

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Authorities have made a fourth arrest in connection with a black-market business for THC-vape manufacturing in Wisconsin.

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Kenosha County prosecutors say the mother of two brothers accused of making vaping cartridges containing THC oil was aware of the illegal activity and allowed some products to be manufactured at her real estate office.

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The historically black parts of Chicago's south side bear the marks of disinvestment common to many of the city's mostly black neighborhoods.

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Three legislators have introduced a bill that would legalize medical marijuana in Wisconsin.

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Sniff and search is no longer the default for police in some of the 33 states that have legalized marijuana.

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A Wisconsin operation that manufactured thousands of vaping cartridges a day may have been packing them with far more THC oil than the packaging claimed, authorities said Wednesday.

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Madison authorities on Wednesday raided a self-styled Rastafarian church that claimed marijuana was a sacrament it gave its members in exchange for donations, police said.

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Elected as state representative for the 48th Assembly District, Rep. Melissa Sargent, D-Madison, has been "legislating through listening" to her 60,000 constituents since 2012. The stories and concerns she heard from voters in her district have launched Sargent on an unexpected journey, sending her on a mission that she never anticipated when she first ran for office.

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Republicans plan to kill some of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' signature proposals in the first vote taken this year by the state's budget-writing committee, proposals including accepting federal money to offer more Medicaid, legalizing medical marijuana and capping enrollment in private voucher schools.

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Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers says he doesn't expect the Republican-controlled Legislature to "jump off a cliff" and support his proposal decriminalizing small amounts of marijuana.

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Republican leaders of the Wisconsin Legislature's budget committee say Gov. Tony Evers' proposal to legalize medical marijuana and small amounts of recreational pot will be snuffed out.

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Potheads have for decades celebrated their love of marijuana on April 20, but the once counter-culture celebration that was all about getting stoned now is so mainstream Corporate America is starting to embrace it.

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Marijuana advocates have high hopes that the latest proposal to legalize pot in Wisconsin has a better chance of success than ever given growing public support, but the bill unveiled Thursday again faces stiff opposition from Republicans who control the Legislature.

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Gary Storck has been here before. For decades, Storck, a longtime medical-marijuana advocate from Madison, has been pushing the state Legislature to legalize his medicine. Storck suffers from glaucoma. He uses cannabis to slow the progression of the disease, which is gradually robbing him of his sight.

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The use of medical marijuana — marijuana prescribed by a physician — has been shown to have substantial benefit for patients with cancer, glaucoma, Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy and multiple sclerosis, among other conditions.

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Gov. Tony Evers will propose decriminalizing small amounts of marijuana in his plan for the next state budget, a newspaper reported Sunday.

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Five years ago state Rep. Melissa Sargent rejected the backward thinking of those who seek to maintain a failed "drug war" and announced: "The facts clearly show that legalization is right for Wisconsin and that the most dangerous thing about marijuana is that it's illegal."

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Gov. Tony Evers says he will most likely include a "first step" toward legalizing medical marijuana in his first state budget proposal.

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Recreational marijuana may never be legal in Wisconsin.

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