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Earlier today, Ryan Briggs became one of the first Pennsylvanians to be certified as part of the state's new medical marijuana program. Together with his mother Diana Briggs, he and other members of his family travelled from Westmoreland County to the Compassionate Certification office in...

Lawmakers in the state House appear to be poised this week to give Diana Briggs a win in her 2½-year fight to legalize medical marijuana. Briggs, whose 15-year-old son Ryan suffers hundreds of seizures a day, believes using certain kinds of cannabis will ease his illness. On Monday, the House...