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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Milwaukee County Supervisor John Weishan wants to ask voters if they want Wisconsin to legalize marijuana for people 21 and older.

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Attorney General Brad Schimel says Wisconsin farmers who grow industrial hemp can produce CBD oil from it.

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions has rescinded an Obama Administration policy that paved the way for legalized marijuana to flourish in states throughout the country, giving rise to new confusion about enforcement and use just three days after a new legalization law went into effect in California.

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Wisconsin farmers will be allowed to grow industrial hemp under a bill Gov. Scott Walker plans to sign into law.

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Democratic candidate for governor Matt Flynn says if Wisconsin voters want to legalize marijuana, he's all for it.

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The Wisconsin state Assembly is moving to pass a bill that would let farmers grow industrial hemp.

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A Wisconsin tribe is preparing to grow hemp in hopes of extracting oil from the plant that could help treat seizures and other health troubles, despite uncertainty over the crop's legality.

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The state Senate's agriculture committee has approved a bill that would allow Wisconsin farmers to grow hemp.

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A legislative committee is set to vote on a bill that would allow Wisconsin farmers to grow hemp.

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Milwaukee prosecutors say a 20-year-old man used Facebook Live to arrange marijuana sales.

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A Republican legislator is joining three Democrats in a long-shot effort to loosen penalties for possessing small amounts of marijuana in Wisconsin.

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The state of Wisconsin is suing two Milwaukee stores for selling synthetic marijuana products disguised as "potpourri" and "incense."

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