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Feb 21, 2024

Wisconsin bills to fight ‘forever chemicals’ pollution, speed ballot counting in jeopardy

Measures that would legalize medical marijuana, spend $125 million to combat pollution from "forever chemicals" and allow election officials to speed up the counting of absentee ballots all appear to be doomed as the Wisconsin Legislature approaches the end of its session for the year.

Feb 15, 2024

A Republican plan to legalize medical marijuana in Wisconsin is dead

A Republican proposal to legalize medical marijuana in Wisconsin is dead.

Minnesota marijuana
Jul 28, 2023

What to know as recreational marijuana becomes legal in Minnesota on Aug. 1

Minnesotans can legally possess and grow their own marijuana for recreational purposes starting Tuesday, Aug. 1, subject to limits meant to keep a lid on things while the state sets up a full-blown legal cannabis industry.

Feb 17, 2023

Fiscal Facts: Changing Midwest marijuana landscape impacts Wisconsin

Since late 2019, sales of recreational marijuana have begun in two of Wisconsin’s neighboring states, while a third appears poised to legalize the substance soon.

Feb 6, 2023

Judge: Banning guns for marijuana users unconstitutional

A federal judge in Oklahoma has ruled that a federal law prohibiting people who use marijuana from owning firearms is unconstitutional, the latest challenge to firearms regulations after the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority set new standards for reviewing the nation's gun laws.

Jan 6, 2023

Republicans move closer to legalizing medical pot in Wisconsin

Republican lawmakers who control the Wisconsin Legislature are moving closer to supporting the legalization of medical marijuana, after years of fighting efforts to loosen the state's laws, the GOP leader of the state Senate said Thursday.

Nov 29, 2022

Remains of man who went missing after fleeing legal trouble identified

Montana authorities said Tuesday that human remains found in Carbon County about 18 years ago have been identified as those of a Wisconsin hitchhiker who left his home state to flee legal trouble.

Apr 20, 2022

Wisconsin marijuana legalization proponents make case

Proponents of legalizing medical marijuana in Wisconsin made their case Wednesday at a public hearing on a Republican bill that's getting its first airing under the GOP-controlled Legislature, the latest sign of movement toward loosening the state's pot laws.

Feb 10, 2022

Editorial: GOP for weed? Medical marijuana deserves swift passage

Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu says he doesn’t want Wisconsin to become a “rogue state” by legalizing medical marijuana before the federal government does.

Feb 9, 2022

Legalizing marijuana gaining momentum in Wisconsin

The push to legalize marijuana in Wisconsin enjoys some bipartisan support, but backers of bills that would make it legal for either medical or recreational use say it won't happen this year.

Feb 4, 2022

Evers vetoes bill increasing marijuana penalties

Gov. Tony Evers on Friday vetoed a Republican-backed bill that would have increased the penalties for making or distributing marijuana through a process that creates a highly concentrated version of marijuana known as butane hash oil.

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