4/6: Four Southern states considered marijuana legislation

Stateline: Four Southern states considered marijuana legislation

States across the nation are considering legalization of marijuana as a way of generating tax funds during cash-strapped times.

Eighteen states, including North Carolina, Alabama, Virginia and Tennessee, considered legislation to legalize medical marijuana this year, an unusually high number. California is the state to watch, as this year's ballot will include a question to allow local governments to legalize and tax marijuana.

Also in the South:

ALABAMA: Legislator says cash offered by lobbyist for bingo vote

ARKANSAS: Sexual violence reports up in Arkansas

FLORIDA: State Supreme Court begins using Twitter

GEORGIA: Voter fraud can be reported online now

KENTUCKY: State Attorney General says he won't sue over health care

LOUISIANA: Opinion: Equitable funding will improve all Louisiana public schools

MISSISSIPPI: State to allow guns in parks

NORTH CAROLINA: Western NC hunger report shows 'pandemic of poverty'

SOUTH CAROLINA: Gov. Sanford to sign unemployment agency overhaul law

TENNESSEE: Opinion: Sentencing fix would make Tennessee a safer place

VIRGINIA: State AG to challenge new fuel efficiency standards in court

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