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Governor Tom Wolf will meet with advocates and encourage lawmakers to pass a bill legalizing medical marijuana in Pennsylvania. That meeting will take place at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Governor's Reception Room of the State Capitol. The Pennsylvania House of Representatives passed several...

Virginia lawmakers are paving the way for the production and distribution of medical marijuana oils. Senate Bill 701 passed in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly. The bill allows for the eventual production and distribution of cannabis oils, which supporters say can ease conditions...

ore than once, the Legislature has dashed Deena Kenney's hopes that it would grant her autistic 19-year-old son the right to be prescribed medical marijuana to treat his epileptic seizures and violent outbursts. There was the time in June 2014 that the Senate overwhelmingly passed a medical...

Rep. Willie Dove (R-Bonner Springs) has introduced House Bill 2634, The Alternative Crop Research Act; legalizing industrial hemp in Kansas. The bill authorizes the Kansas Department of Agriculture and state universities to begin research into planting, cultivating, processing and analysis of...

Starting this summer, medical marijuana products will be required to undergo testing by certified facilities, much the way that recreational products are currently tested. Last week the Colorado House passed House Bill 16-1064, which will enable facilities to get a medical marijuana testing...

We began this legislative session with two medical marijuana bills and we're ending it with none. Bringing an end to the discussion on medical marijuana for this legislative session. Senate Bill 73, sponsored by Sen. Mark Madsen (R) - Distrcit 13, would have allowed for full plant based...

Big news today for children and adults hoping to get a form of medical marijuana to treat epilepsy. The General Assembly has passed a bill allowing cannabidiol, or CBD, to be produced and distributed in Virginia. Senator Dave Marsden said, "Marijuana is a plant and there is a process by...

A bill that would open up medical cannabis in Utah on a limited basis will head to the House floor on the final day of the legislative session without the support of a key backer – the Utah Medical Association. The advocacy group, which counts most of the physicians in the state as members...

One way or another, it looks like Pennsylvania's medical-marijuana law will finally be decided. Over the past two years, the bill has been debated and stalled; it's even passed the state Senate twice without ever being brought forward for debate on the state House floor. And while the bill...

Florida's contentious medical marijuana legislation has made it to Gov. Rick Scott. After 2½ hours of debate on Monday, the Senate approved a House version of a bill (HB 307) that would expand the so-called "Right to Try" act, allowing medical marijuana use for patients with terminal...

George Hendrickson clasped his hands and peered down at lawmakers as they cast their votes on the House floor. He turned his gaze to the left, to the results of a vote on a medical marijuana bill that he hoped could provide relief for his three year old Eliyah, who suffers from multiple...

Public opinion was evenly split at a Tuesday hearing on a local bill that would allow medical marijuana to be grown in Frederick County's agricultural districts. The legislation, sponsored by M.C. Keegan-Ayer, vice president of the Frederick County Council, has seen staunch resistance in the...

As the votes were called out one by one, Lissa Lander's eyes filled with tears. "I was angry. I was hoping. For a moment, I thought we had a chance," said Lander, a Sugar House mom who has complex regional pain syndrome so severe that she says even fabric makes her skin burn. She was one of...

The sponsor of Utah's bold and controversial cannabis law says, at the end of the calendar year, he will move out of the country. Sen. Mark Madsen says his perception of conservative values does not jive with those of the Utah lawmakers with whom he serves. Madsen says by January 2017, he...

After fighting for — and obtaining — narrow passage through the Utah Senate, a controversial medical marijuana bill will not advance to the House of Representatives. A Health and Human Services committee voted 8-4 not to send SB 73, sponsored by Sen. Mark Madsen, R-Saratoga Springs, to be...

Medical marijuana is always controversial and this year in Georgia is no different, especially now that a medical marijuana bill that started off as a life preserver for sick and disabled children has been stripped of a key component that parents say is necessary for their kid's survival...

Florida's medical marijuana system is small, and by some accounts, deeply flawed and broken. "It's going to be much more broken after the amendment [Amendment Two] passes in November. At the end of the day, we have to come back and do this the right way," said Republican Senator Jeff...

House lawmakers unanimously passed a bill Friday that would authorize the Board of Agriculture to regulate the growing of industrial hemp for research purposes. House Bill 2555, introduced by Rep. Kaniela Ing and 34 other co-signers, will now cross over to the Senate for its consideration...

The number of medical marijuana dispensaries in Rhode Island could double as part of a new bill introduced in the General Assembly. Democratic Rep. Scott Slater, of Providence, has proposed increasing the number of state-permitted compassion centers from three to six. The bill would allow...

Bills that would allow the state Department of Agriculture to create pilot research programs for industrial hemp are moving through both chambers of the state Legislature. "I'm very happy that the bill is alive at this point," state Sen. Russell Ruderman, D- Puna, said of Senate Bill 2659, the...