We look at the push to reclassify marijuana as a drug with medicinal benefits and we hear about the shrinking State Auditor's office.

A Burlington Democrat plans to introduce a bill in the Vermont House that would decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.

Senate President Peter Shumlin sparked controversy recently when he came out in support of decriminalizing marijuana. The candidates for governor have found it can be a challenging topic to talk about.

A grassroots group spearheaded by a former state legislator hopes to build support for reforming Vermont's marijuana laws. Proponents say Vermont could more easily control marijuana by moving it off the streets and into state-regulated stores. Law enforcement officials disagree.

About 100 advocates of legalizing marijuana rallied outside the New Hampshire Statehouse on the eve of a Senate vote to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana.

A bill making its way through the senate would create up to five "compassion centers"  to legally disburse medical marijuana.  Also, one senator wants to further regulate slaughterhouses, and we celebrate the Iranian New Year.

New Hampshire's House has voted to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana by adults.

On Town Meeting Day voters in Montpelier came out strongly in favor of de-criminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana.

Vermont State Police have seized $200,000 worth of marijuana believed to have been dropped from a plane into a field near the U.S.-Canadian border.

When it comes to marijuana use, Vermont has claimed top honors. That's according to a survey released this week by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

The New Hampshire House has killed a bill to decriminalize possession of up to an ounce of marijuana, one year after a similar measure died in the state Senate.

Several Vermont legislators want to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana; a South Burlington woman was on Capitol Hill this morning as the Senate investigated how the federal government responded to peanut products tainted with Salmonella;

A lawyer and former part-time Family Court judge is losing her law license for three months because marijuana was found in her house; activists say they're happy that the U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to take up a child custody case between two women;

A man allowed to have a limited amount of marijuana for medical purposes has been charged with possessing far more - nearly four pounds of marijuana at his Stowe restaurant, home and on a vacant lot.

In New Hampshire, sponsors of a plan to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana are working on changes in hopes of winning the governor's support.

A Vermont Supreme Court disciplinary counsel is recommending a two-month license suspension for a Windsor lawyer whose marijuana arrest put her at the center of a public debate about drug laws.

First-time marijuana offenders often are given a break in New Hampshire. The House recently passed a bill to decriminalize a small amount of the drug. The bill isn't expected to survive the Senate, but if it did, Gov. John Lynch said he'll veto it.

New Hampshire residents could possess one-quarter ounce or less of marijuana without facing jail under a bill headed to the state Senate.

A Senate committee has approved a bill that increases the penalty for possessing heroin and cocaine.

VPR's Mitch Wertlieb talks with Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Sears and Lieutenant Governor Brian Dubie about the bill recently passed in the Senate to reduce the penalties for possessing 2 oz of marijuana.