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The House advanced a bill amended Tuesday to include prior approval of a new non-psychoactive medicine under review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that mimics anti-seizure properties of a marijuana oil banned in Kansas but available in other states. An amendment offered by Rep. John...

Two years ago, State Rep. Jeremy Faison, R-Cosby, spearheaded legislation that led to the legalization of prescription cannabis oil in Tennessee. Now the legislator, who represents Cocke County and a portion of Greene County, is setting his sites on the legalization of medical marijuana in...

Lincoln – As expected, a legislative committee on Friday advanced a proposal to legalize medical marijuana in Nebraska. The Legislature's Judiciary Committee advanced Legislative Bill 622, sponsored and prioritized by State Sen. Anna Wishart of Lincoln, 6-1. The bill is sure to be...

Lincoln – As expected, a legislative committee on Friday advanced a proposal to legalize medical marijuana in Nebraska. The Legislature's Judiciary Committee advanced Legislative Bill 622, sponsored and prioritized by State Sen. Anna Wishart of Lincoln, 6-1. The bill is sure to be...

Forty-four U.S. states permit some form of medical cannabis. Nebraska is one of the six states that do not. LB 622, introduced by Sen. Anna Wishart of Lincoln at a hearing Wednesday, intends on adding Nebraska to the list of states that allow medical cannabis by adopting the Medical Cannabis...

For decades, marijuana legislation has been a source of consistent stress for stoners across the United States. Many states have loosened pot restrictions in recent years, but weed is still considered a controlled substance by the U.S. government, a discrepancy that has created a judicial grey...

Hilo – A bill to replace the term "medical marijuana" with "medical cannabis" in state law is moving through the Legislature, though most other marijuana-related measures have died. Senate Bill 786, introduced by state Sen. Mike Gabbard, D-Oahu, says the word "marijuana" originated as a "slang...

File this under "you can't get there from here." The state Legislature recently approved a bill that would give parents the ability to try a drug derived from marijuana to help children with severe seizures.It's a good and important measure that got the support it deserved. It was approved...

Without a word of explanation, Gov. Susana Martinez on Wednesday vetoed a proposed research program intended to clear the way for an industrial hemp industry in New Mexico, a key plank in the economic plan announced by Democrats in the Legislature at the outset of the 2017 session. Republican...

Will fields of hemp find a place among Alaska's agricultural crops? At least one Alaska lawmaker hopes so. In January, Palmer Republican Shelley Hughes introduced a bill – Senate Bill 6 – that would allow for the creation of an Alaska hemp industry fully separate from commercial marijuana...

A Republican state senator from Lake Havasu City sees economic opportunity in industrial hemp and wants to bring Arizona into the fold. Sen. Sonny Borrelli has sponsored a bill to establish the framework for an industrial hemp industry in Arizona. If passed, SB 1337 would legalize the...

Queensland could have looked at a compassionate scheme to not prosecute people using whole plant medicinal cannabis, the state's One Nation MP says. Member for Buderim Steve Dickson said in that New South Wales police were given guidelines not to prosecute terminally ill people found with...

Medical marijuana providers, patients and labs that test products told a legislative committee Friday they want regulations and licensing on their industry to show it is legitimate. "This is transparency and this is bringing the program out from the shadows," said Kate Cholewa, who represents...

Denver – Colorado is moving to curb the nation's most generous marijuana allowance for medical patients growing their own plants. The state House gave preliminary approval Friday to a bill limiting marijuana patients 16 plants in their homes, down from 99. The measure aims to make it...

Las Vegas - It soon could be legal to smoke pot out in public. Support is growing for a bill that would allow marijuana consumption at licensed businesses. Advocates say it could give rise to a brand-new and lucrative industry: marijuana tourism. State Sen. Tick Segerblom is behind...

As most marijuana-reform advocates know, getting any bill passed in Texas relating to even the tiniest amounts of pot "is like trying to clean the Statue of Liberty while licking it," as State Representative Harold Dutton (D-Houston) once described it. But at least on Monday, one marijuana...

Topeka, Kan. – A Kansas Senate committee has endorsed a measure that would let doctors and physicians prescribe and dole out what's described as "non-intoxicating" medicine derived from a marijuana chemical compound. The Wichita Eagle reports that senators initially were supposed to vote on a...

Texas Pot smokers may be one step closer to celebrating in the streets. A bill seeking to decriminalize the use and possession of small quantities of marijuana has been scheduled for a hearing at the Texas State Capitol. House Bill 81, which aims to categorize low-level marijuana...

Denver – Colorado's Senate has passed a first-in-the-nation bill expressly permitting marijuana clubs. But Gov. John Hickenlooper is hinting that he'll veto the measure unless it bans indoor smoking. The bill passed 25-10 Thursday morning. It allows local jurisdictions to permit...

Bill Blair, the former police chief of Toronto, slides into his restaurant chair and twinkles at the waitress. He's 6ft 6in, white-haired now but perky. Bill has 120 years of policing behind him. He, his father and his grandfather all served 40 years in the force. Now he's an MP and he's...