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The government's new approach to medicinal marijuana access is considered a setback for pot policy, says licensed producers, who add that it highlights the need to put in a comprehensive and clear legalized system. The new system will once again allow patients to grow their own supply or...

Under federal law, marijuana use is still illegal, even though nearly half of U.S. states sanction its use for medical purposes. Colorado legalized the drug for recreational use in 2012, and the move not only stoked Denver's housing market, it garnered $135 million in pot-related taxes and fees...

Conditions surrounding State law changes to medicinal cannabis are so stringent that thousands of sick patients are likely to go untreated, according to a Manning Valley campaigner. Craig Goodwin of Kundle Kundle called law changes enabling NSW doctors to prescribe cannabis products to...

Conditions surrounding State law changes to medicinal cannabis are so stringent that thousands of sick patients are likely to go untreated, according to a Manning Valley campaigner. Craig Goodwin of Kundle Kundle called law changes enabling NSW doctors to prescribe cannabis products to...

As John Murphy worked to set up his marijuana producing and processing business, he ran into one major problem: banking. One bank's employees wouldn't talk to him about marijuana inside the building - only in the parking lot. One offered him a checking account, but only if he was willing to...

Health Minister Jane Philpott has a golden opportunity later this month to improve access and safety for medical marijuana patients and Canadian pharmacists hope she will take it. By amending the Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations (MMPR) to allow pharmacists to dispense medical...

Health Minister Jane Philpott has a golden opportunity later this month to improve access and safety for medical marijuana patients and Canadian pharmacists hope she will take it. By amending the Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations (MMPR) to allow pharmacists to dispense medical...

King County, Wash. — The Metropolitan King County Council adopted legislation to allow retail marijuana stores in geographic areas where none exist currently, alleviating an oversaturation of marijuana shops in south King County. Councilmember Claudia Balducci sponsored the ordinance, and was...

Denver - As more families press for their children to be allowed to consume medical cannabis at school, more states are moving toward allowing students access to the substance that remains banned at the federal level. Last week, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signed "Jack's Law," which will...

Denver - As more families press for their children to be allowed to consume medical cannabis at school, more states are moving toward allowing students access to the substance that remains banned at the federal level. Last week, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signed "Jack's Law," which will...

Pressure is mounting on the Tasmanian Government to legalise the medicinal use of cannabis in the wake of Victoria's historic decision to become the first state in Australia to do so. The Victorian Government passed the Access to Medicinal Cannabis Bill 2015 yesterday, giving patients legal...

Victoria has become the first state to make medicinal cannabis available to people in exceptional circumstances, with the passing of historic legislation in parliament. Children with severe epilepsy will be given first access to medicinal cannabis from early 2017, following the passing of the...

U.S. Senator Mark R. Warner (D-VA) has signed on to co-sponsor the bipartisan Therapeutic Hemp Medical Access Act of 2015, which would allow Virginians suffering with intractable epilepsy access to therapeutic cannabidiol (CBD) oil, a harmless, non-psychoactive hemp extract that is used to treat...

It's high time all the huffing and puffing about the Government not doing anything to broaden access to medicinal cannabis had some facts thrown in the mix. In the past fortnight two notable Kiwis, namely the late Martin Crowe, and Sir Paul Holmes, have hit the headlines for their use of...

A new report catalogs the highs (and lows) of America's medical cannabis process Medicinal marijuana, man. Eighty five percent of the U.S. population, in 23 different states, should technically have the option to access the healing herb safely and legally. But since it's a relatively new...

An Informational Town Hall meeting on Medical Cannabis was held on November 8. 2015 in Alexandria, Ky sponsored by Veterans of Foreign Wars Campbell County Post 3205 Auxiliary and Veterans for Medical Cannabis Access. Having given the keynote speech at that event I was surprised and somewhat...

Just in time for Veterans Day, the Senate passed the Fiscal Year 2016 Military Construction and Veteran Affairs (MilCon-VA) Appropriations Bill, which will include a stipulation for the first time ever to allow doctors in the Veterans Administration to recommend medical marijuana to their...

Just in time for Veterans Day, the Senate passed the Fiscal Year 2016 Military Construction and Veteran Affairs (MilCon-VA) Appropriations Bill, which will include a stipulation for the first time ever to allow doctors in the Veterans Administration to recommend medical marijuana to their...

When Moriah Barnhart's 2-year-old daughter Dahlia was attacked by intense tremors, fever and nausea in May 2013, she rushed the girl to a Tampa emergency room. A week later, after surgery for an aggressive and cancerous brain tumor, Dahlia couldn't eat, walk or talk. Three weeks later, her...

When Moriah Barnhart's 2-year-old daughter Dahlia was attacked by intense tremors, fever and nausea in May 2013, she rushed the girl to a Tampa emergency room. A week later, after surgery for an aggressive and cancerous brain tumor, Dahlia couldn't eat, walk or talk. Three weeks later, her...