The 2016 presidential field is taking shape, and many of the candidates are weighing in on the debate about marijuana.

Here’s a roundup of what the declared candidates have said about cannabis policy, as well as what they’ve admitted about their own marijuana consumption.

All candidates are listed in alphabetical order.

Jeb Bush – Republican

The former Florida governor does not favor legalization, or even medical cannabis, but he does support letting states set their own marijuana laws without much federal interference.

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California has finally decided to regulate medical marijuana, taking steps to end a two-decade-long free-for-all that has been blamed for worsening the state's drought and causing environmental damage, though it remains to be seen whether enough of the state's black market growers will abide by the new laws to make a significant impact.

Governor Jerry Brown signed three bills into law on Friday that collectively amount to a massive change for the federally illegal industry, which is currently governed in California by a motley collection of city and county laws that range from stringent to wildly permissive.

The fast-growing, controversial cannabis industry is said to be a supportive haven for female entrepreneurs. Intrigued, we took a closer look.

“Reefer Madness.” Cheech and Chong. “Half Baked.” American pop culture tends to depict cannabis as either a joke or a danger. But amid a shifting legal landscape, an active group of entrepreneurs now see it as a serious business.

The core argument made by opponents of legal regulation is that any regulated market for cannabis would inevitably fuel a significant rise in use and associated harms – particularly among young people. So inevitably, as the first jurisdiction in the world to implement a legally regulated market for non-medical cannabis use, Colorado is under intense scrutiny, with advocates keen to demonstrate its successes, and prohibitionists keen to highlight its failings.

Looking to get away–both in a physical sense and in a mental state sense? Looking for a reason to finally finish off that entire bag of Oreos in one sitting? The Santee Sioux tribe has announced its plans to open the country's first weed resort in South Dakota. While pot isn't legal in the state, this June, the Justice Department gave the group permission to grow and sell marijuana. 

"We want it to be an adult playground," tribal President Anthony Reider told the Associated Press. "There's nowhere else in American that has something like this."

• The California Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which will require police to get a court order before they can search messages, photos and other digital data stored on phones or company servers in the nation's most-populous state. Civil-liberties advocates called the new law that takes effect Jan. 1 an important advance and said it highlights the need for similar protections at the national level.

• A measure that compels crisis pregnancy centers that discourage women from getting abortions in California to provide information about abortions and other services. The measure imposes the first such statewide rule, after local communities around the country have tried similar efforts.

Joe Warren has joined Nick Diaz on the list of weed offenders in MMA.

More than 500 marijuana plants and 115 pounds of marijuana packaged for sale were seized and 10 people were arrested Thursday following a joint operation.

The operation was conducted by the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department's Marijuana Enforcement Team and the Victor Valley Sheriff's Station, who served search warrants at four rural locations.

"The large amount of marijuana seized at the individual locations suggests the suspects had no intention of abiding by California’s medical marijuana laws and were strictly for-profit operations," the sheriff's department said in a release.

The operation involved busts at four different grows and the arrest of a man, Jesus Casas, who was wanted by Santa Clara County.

Over the next few weeks, an old horse barn will be transformed into one of the first medical marijuana cultivation facilities in New York.

The 8,000-square-foot barn in Chestertown is still being renovated but once complete it will serve as the extraction, curing, processing, separating and lab site for Etain, LLC’s production facility. Alongside the barn, nestled in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains, is the footprint for what will soon be a 13,000-square-foot greenhouse.