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Supporters of legalizing medical marijuana testified at the Georgia Capitol today. One of those testimonies came from Troup County father Dale Jackson. Medical marijuana is legal in Georgia — but only for the some 500 citizens who are able signed up. But getting access to that medical...

Lolly Bentch-Myers is a mother of three and full-time activist with Pennsylvania's Campaign4Compassion. Her daughter, Anna, has Mesial Temporal Sclerosis, a brain condition that causes intractable epilepsy, insomnia, and autism. There are not many options for kids like Anna, or moms like Lolly...

State Sen. Richard Ross is in Colorado with several colleagues looking into the impact of legalized recreational marijuana. Ross, R-Wrentham, is on a special committee studying what will happen if Massachusetts voters approve a ballot question making possession of pot legal. Senate...

Citizens will have a chance to tell their state senators what they think about marijuana legalization, in person, this Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Sen. Dick Sears, D-Bennington, who is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said his committee will be at the Bennington Fire Facility, 130...

Citizens will have a chance to tell their state senators what they think about marijuana legalization, in person, this Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Sen. Dick Sears, D-Bennington, who is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said his committee will be at the Bennington Fire Facility, 130...

Despite apprehension from some around the table, the planning advisory committee has lit up bylaw amendments aimed at sheltering the city from improper medical marijuana production and sale. City council will now have to decide if the committee recommendation to clearly define how and where...

State Rep. Sue Errington, D-Muncie, expects her medical marijuana bill to be assigned to the "graveyard committee" again by the speaker of the House. But a marijuana-related bill introduced by Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Jean Leising, a Republican whose district includes southern Henry...

State Rep. Sue Errington, D-Muncie, expects her medical marijuana bill to be assigned to the "graveyard committee" again by the speaker of the House. But a marijuana-related bill introduced by Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Jean Leising, a Republican whose district includes southern Henry...

After years of importing hemp from other countries, recently several states, including Vermont, have begun legalizing hemp farming for industrial and agricultural purposes. Prior to this, the federal government's ban on the plant kept them from doing so. However, because so many types of goods...

The Utah State Legislature will consider two separate medical marijuana bills when it meets next year. But cannabis advocates claim only one of those bills will actually do patients some good. The legislature's interim Health and Human Services Committee met Wednesday to discuss a pair of...

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...