Senate majority leader and cool guy Harry Reid wants his constituents to know that he's never tried it, but he's totally down with weed now.

The first national poll to ask potential voters their thoughts on marijuana since two states legalized the drug back in November has found that support for legalization is now a majority opinion for the first time since the question was first asked by Gallup back in 1969.

With Washington having recently become the first of two states to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, the local government has been tasked with determining how high a person can be before they are considered to be "driving under the influence."

Miss Iowa Mariah Cary (yup) might have been taking some of her own confusing advice when she responded to a question about Marijuana legalization by saying the drug should only be used recreationally and medicinally.

Both recreational marijuana use and same-sex marriage became legal in the state of Washington as of midnight last night.

Though Washington's voter-approved marijuana legalization law won't formally take effect until December 6th, prosecutors in the state's largest counties are already treating it as the law of the land.

Colorado legalizes pot. Still, "don't break out the Cheetos or Goldfish too quickly," warns Gov. John Hickenlooper.

At a House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing held today to conduct Drug Enforcement Administration oversight, Rep. Jared Polis (D-CO) — a major proponent of marijuana legalization — tried for several minutes to get an answer from DEA administrator Michele Leonhart on the relative severity of marijuana compared to other Schedule I narcotics.

Rhode Island's Lincoln Chafee and Washington's Christine Gregoire—an Independent and a Democrat, respectively, in charge of medicinal-marijuana states—are now begging the federal government to change its classification of marijuana and admit that pot has medical uses. Good luck!

For the first time, more Americans support legalizing marijuana than oppose it. (Talk about a record "high"! Am I right?) The greatest support comes from liberals and people 18-29; the strongest opposition from the 65-and-up crowd. So just wait!

A Nebraska Cannabis Coalition activist who was attending Willie Nelson's concert at the Nebraska State Fair was told by state troopers that she couldn't wear her "Don't Panic, It's Organic" t-shirt because of a vague "fair policy" that doesn't even prohibit pot-themed t-shirts. Or pot-themed musicians, apparently!

A new report from the Global Commission on Drug Policy, an international group that includes former Secretary of State George Schultz, former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker, and former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, finds that the international war on drugs is a big fat failure. (On the part of humans. Drugs seem to be doing A-OK.) "The evidence," the commission writes, "overwhelmingly demonstrates that... the war on drugs has not, and cannot, be won." Well, not with that attitude, guys! [BBC; image via AP]

In honor of this whole stupid 4/20 thing, CNN has commissioned a poll on attitudes toward pot legalization (that's right, CNN is now programming around fake holidays dreamed up by stoned teenagers). And wealthy white people are the strongest supporters of legalized marijuana.

Pot prices could drop as much as 80 percent in California if Proposition 19, the weed-legalization measure on this November's ballot, passes, according to researchers at Rand's Drug Policy Research Center. Plus, weed would be legal.