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A bill that would tighten safety and security measures for the production of medical marijuana plus limit the medical specialties of the doctors allowed to prescribe it was approved Tuesday by a House subcommittee. The Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee voted 12-0, with no one voicing...

Talk of medical marijuana in the state of Tennessee continue. State Representative Bryan Terry, who represents a portion of Rutherford County, said that a bill by one lawmaker may be revisited that focuses on cannabis research... The bill that died in 2015 called for the tracking of medical...

California lawmakers are now in rush to correct some serious issues regarding the proposed Marijuana Law. The legislation is said to stabilize the state's medical marijuana industry and reports elicited reactions from recreational users. State of California is constructing a new medical...

Earlier this month, Arizona Rep. Jay Lawrence of the 23rd District introduced HCR 2019, a bill that would make obtaining a medical marijuana card more difficult for medical marijuana users in Arizona. The bill has been withdrawn since Lawrence's proposal. "It will never be heard by a...

MK Sharren Haskel says more than a million Israelis occasionally use cannabis and that decriminalization for personal use over the age of 21 will free up funds to be reallocated for education and public information campaigns. Attempts to move towards decriminalization of cannabis use in...

The House judiciary committee held their first hearing on the legalization of growing and distributing medical marijuana in state. It was a packed house on Monday as people made their case in favor of House Bill 722 for the House Judiciary Committee. The bill would allow the cultivation...

A Kansas Senate committee wasn't ready Tuesday to endorse a narrow medical marijuana proposal, even though its members approved a measure for reducing criminal penalties for first- and second-time pot possession. The Republican-dominated Corrections and Juvenile Justice Committee showed its...

A bill that would lower the penalties for first- and second-time marijuana possession is headed to the full Kansas Senate, but without other provisions that would have authorized the medicinal use of hemp oil to treat certain seizure disorders. Members of the Senate Corrections and Juvenile...

A Georgia House of Representatives Committee is reviewing House Bill 722.The process started Monday as Judiciary Non-Civil Committee members listened to stories of people who need or know someone who needs the drug for pain relief. HB 722 includes a model for growing medical marijuana in...

Georgia families urged lawmakers on Monday to expand the state's medical marijuana program as critics questioned the rush toward a "substantial change" in state law. The House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee held the first hearing on House Bill 722, which would create up to six licensed...

The Kansas Statehouse isn't known as a place sympathetic to liberalizing drug laws, but then came the stories of Kansas families with hurting children. Tiffanie and Kevin Krentz of Topeka, for example. At 6 months old, their son J.J. suffered his first seizure. It lasted 45 terrifying...

People around the State Capitol last year knew them simply as "the moms." The cadre of mothers, often with chronically sick children in tow, made emotional and compelling pleas for a bill legalizing medical marijuana in Nebraska. It was an impressive citizens campaign by a group formally...

Georgia residents made their case Monday to a committee at the Capitol to legalize the cultivation of medical marijuana. Backers say it's the logical followup to another medical marijuana bill that passed the General Assembly last year. The hearing drew an overflow crowd — mostly from...

The California Senate has approved a bill aimed at slowing a rush of cities and counties racing to ban marijuana cultivation. The Senate backed the measure in a 35-3 vote on Monday, sending it to the Assembly. AB21 corrects what lawmakers say was a mistake in medical marijuana regulations...

The Utah Legislature is considering a push for medical marijuana in 2016. A new bill may open the doors for edible marijuana products containing THC, though smoking marijuana would remain illegal. This bill, sponsored by Sen. Mark Madsen, R-Saratoga Springs, has garnered support from Salt Lake...

With a new Florida Senate Bill, the state may give patients greater access to medical marijuana. To provide a safe, regulated system for medical marijuana disbursement in Florida, Sen. Rob Bradley, R-Fleming Island, discussed Senate Bill 460 at the Senate Fiscal Policy Committee meeting on...

State Representative Jay Lawrence (R-Fountain Hills) has withdrawn his bill that could have destroyed Arizona's medical-marijuana program. Lawrence's bill, HCR 2019, would have stripped naturopaths and homeopaths of the right to recommend medical marijuana, even though those doctors write...

Dana Ulrich says she doesn't relish being a political activist. The Spring Township woman has been on the front lines of the push to allow medical marijuana in Pennsylvania. She's lobbied lawmakers, had face time with the past two governors and has appeared on national television shows. But...

Sen. Karen Tallian has introduced Senate Bill 209, which seeks to establish a medical marijuana program in Indiana. The proposed program would consist of allowing, upon physician recommendations, patients and caregivers the right to possess a certain quantity of marijuana for medical purposes...

Jan 21 A bill to allow medical marijuana should be approved by Mexico's Congress by May, thanks to cross-party support and a series of public debates on cannabis that should win over lawmakers, the ruling party senator who proposed the measure said. The bill, proposed by Institutional...