A Canadian marijuana legalization poll taken this week by Forum Research found that 59 percent support the new Liberal government’s stance on legalizing, taxing, and regulating cannabis for adult use, closely mirroring a recent Gallup poll showing 58 percent support for legalization in the United States.

However, there are some strong differences in Canadian and American opinions on how marijuana should be legalized.

Last week, just a day after voters in Ohio rejected a constitutional amendment to legalize the recreational and medical use of marijuana, Mexico’s Supreme Court headed in a different direction: The country’s top justices concluded that national laws making it illegal to personally produce, possess, and consume marijuana violated the rights of Mexicans. The ruling itself has received considerable attention, but the rationale behind it less so.

New polls show strong support for marijuana in Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania ahead of next year's national elections.

Super-majorities of voters believe that medical cannabis should be legal, and most men additionally support legalizing marijuana for all adults, according to the results of a Quinnipiac University Swing State poll.

Pollsters gauged support for marijuana law reform in Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.

CLEVELAND- A Cleveland woman who used marijuana tea to treat morning sickness while pregnant now has custody of her child.

Nova Sanford was born on Sept. 26 at Fairview Hospital. But a drug test revealed a marijuana byproduct. Hollie and Daniel Sanford said the Cuyahoga County Children and Family Services would not let them take their daughter home.

An emergency hearing was held on Monday and the baby was given back to her parents. “I couldn’t even speak,” Hollie told FOX 8's Suzanne Stratford, Monday night.“I was choking back the emotion the whole time.”

While some have claimed that last Tuesday’s defeat for Ohio’s Issue 3, which would have legalized recreational marijuana in the state, is an example of liberals losing the culture wars, the actual dynamics of this proposed amendment’s failure are far more nuanced, and may even tell the opposite story. Instead of serving as a defeat for liberals in the culture wars, the failure of this referendum shows what happens when voters are faced with multiple, competing concerns as part of the same issue.

“Issue 3 was nothing more and nothing less than a business plan to seize control of the recreational marijuana market in Ohio”, Curt Steiner, director of Ohioans Against Marijuana Monopolies, said in election night remarks.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio called on the county to immediately address any issues that could disenfranchise voters.

“This Ohio vote has been sort of a side-show that no one else was either anxious about or excited about elsewhere in the country”, he said.

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.

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.

Issue 3 – the proposed Ohio marijuana monopoly – suffered a jaw-dropping loss Tuesday. But that doesn't mean another Issue 3-like ballot issue won't surface again, maybe as soon as next year.

That's despite such startling facts as the rejection of Issue 3 in all 88 counties, even party-hearty Athens. Likewise, the Western Reserve's liberal citadel, Oberlin, voted against Issue 3. For that matter, Issue 3 lost in one of the four precincts in tie-dyed Yellow Springs.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A failed attempt to legalize marijuana in Ohio loomed large at a so-called "cannabis academy" held Saturday in Cleveland, but speakers urged attendees to not give up and to prepare for eventual legalization of the drug.

During the event, which was put on by ComfyTree Enterprises at the FirstMerit Convention Center, speakers from several groups put forth plans to either decriminalize or legalize marijuana in the coming year.

Jacob Wagner, an attorney and organizer for Legalize Ohio 2016, said his organization will seek legalization next year without the use of a mascot such as Buddie, a part cannabis plant and part superhero that traveled the state as part of the failed Issue 3 campaign.