Marijuana Legalization

The Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands has become the first US territory to see a marijuana legalization bill pass a legislative chamber.

Everybody's got an opinion on why Prop 19 lost. The Chronicle examines what a range of movement leaders and other thinkers think it means -- and what the discussion of why Prop 19 lost itself means.

The post-mortems are still coming in from last week's elections, but the marijuana reform movement already has its eyes on 2012.

A post-election poll strongly suggest that marijuana legalization could win in California in 2012.

Prop 19 may have been defeated, but marijuana legalization is not going away, proponents said Wednesday.

California's Proposition 19 has gone down to defeat, but organizers put the best face on it and vowed to move forward.

The trend line is looking good for marijuana legalization. It's gone up 15 points in 10 years and now stands at 46% nationwide.

Prop 19 has built a formidable coalition of supporters, and it's generated nearly $2 million in donations in the past month. It will need every bit of that cash and support to get over the top, but the campaign says it can still do it.

Sunday's Field poll is the latest in a string of polls showing Proposition 19 losing on Tuesday. Can a surge of "unlikely voters" prove the pollsters wrong? We'll find out in just over 48 hours.