Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton responds to a question from Roland Martin, host of TV One's News One Now, during a town hall meeting at Claflin University in Orangeburg, S.C.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton proposed reclassifying marijuana to allow research into medical use of the drug, according to NewsOne.

Clinton noted that several states have legalized marijuana, and she would like to see how it works there before taking that step at the federal level.

TOPEKA (KSNT) – The north side of the Statehouse became a graveyard Saturday afternoon.

And a funeral.

All symbols used by the advocacy group Bleeding Kansas to bring awareness of a bill they’ve been trying to get out of committee for years.

The group and other Kansans are asking legislators to consider making medical marijuana legal.

“We just would like to have a conversation,” said Lisa Sublett, the president and founder of Bleeding Kansas. “We would like to have the dialogue and show them the research.”

According to Sublett, there are lawmakers who support the bill but the group is letting those legislators come forward on their own because the subject of medical marijuana is often divisive.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A citizen-initiated law that would allow people convicted of crimes later made legal in Ohio will go before state lawmakers in January.

ResponsibleOhio, the political action committee behind marijuana legalization measure Issue 3, also proposed the "Fresh Start Act." The Fresh Start Act would allow people convicted of marijuana offenses to request that their criminal records be expunged, or destroyed, if state laws change to make those crimes no longer illegal.

SALEM, Ore. — Indoor growing operations for legal marijuana businesses are causing problems for Oregon’s electrical grid, according to officials from electrical utility company.

Pacific Power said Wednesday that Oregon marijuana grow operations have taken grids above capacity, blowing out seven transformers since July and causing outages and equipment damage, reported The Statesman Journal.

The problems are a remnant of marijuana’s black market past, when substandard electrical work powered the lights at growing sites.

Kyle Turley spent eight years as an offensive tackle in the NFL, which means he spent eight years standing in the way of oncoming traffic. The gig led to two diagnosed concussions and, Turley says, a estimated 100 that went undiagnosed during his tenure on the turf. 

Now that he's retired, Turley is feeling the full force of those had injuries. And after years of trying to treat the symptoms with pharmaceuticals, he's discovered the one drug that works better than anything else: marijuana. On Thursday, Turley appeared on ESPN's "Highly Questionable" and described the difference smoking has made in his life. 

Televised screen shots taken Tuesday night of live election returns in Ohio provided by the Secretary of State's office showed hundreds of thousands of votes flipping from the "yes" to "no" column of Issue 3, the ballot measure to legalize marijuana.

When seen against the backdrop of Ohio's longstanding history of Republicans manipulating the vote count to obtain the outcome they seek, such as in the 2004 presidential election when Ohio returns elected George W. Bush to a second term, there are compelling reasons to question the official result where the pot measure went down to defeat.

To understand the context for this likely chicanery, you have to understand the backdrop of current Ohio politics.

The number of conferences in the cannabis industry is almost on par with the ever-expanding music festival scene. With new conferences seemingly appearing on a weekly basis, deciding on the events worth the investment (money, time, bandwidth) can be difficult.

However, when a friend who works for the city and county of Denver’s Office of Marijuana Policy told me about a two-day symposium the city was holding for 420-situated regulators, I knew I had to attend.

Since 2013, Mary’s Medicinals has focused on the medicinal cannabis consumer, establishing itself as an innovative and trusted brand within the industry. Available in Colorado, Washington, Arizona, Oregon and California, Mary’s was the first to offer transdermal patches as a method of cannabis delivery. Mary’s transdermals, discreet patches that are worn on the skin, have won numerous awards including “Most Innovative Product” at the CannAwards in 2015. Mary’s has rethought how cannabis may be used, taking cues from more traditional delivery methods, with great success.

The marijuana e-commerce firm raised $750,000 in its first funding round.

There may be only five licensed medical-marijuana companies in New York state, but that doesn't mean local entrepreneurs are going to let them have all the fun. Selling products such as luxury weed accessories and industrial grow lights, New York startups are hoping to profit from marijuana's legalization in a number of states.

The latest New York cannabis company to get in the game is LeafLink, a business-to-business e-commerce platform that has closed its first funding round, raising $750,000.

America's cops overwhelmingly do not see marijuana as a major threat to their communities, according to results of a survey released this week as part of the Drug Enforcement Administration's "2015 National Drug Threat Assessment Summary."

The DEA asked a nationally representative sample of over 1,000 law enforcement agencies what they saw as their biggest drug threats. Marijuana came in at the bottom of the list, named by only 6 percent of survey respondents. The share of law enforcement agencies naming pot has been declining steadily since the mid-2000s, even as states have moved to legalize medical and recreational marijuana during that time period.