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My family and I spent months lobbying for the passage of New York's medical marijuana program. My son Tommy has one of the rarest and severest forms of epilepsy known as LGS (Lennox Gastaut Syndrome), and we have very good reasons to believe that medical marijuana can help him as it has helped...

This week, the Turnbull government tabled legislation that will allow farmers to grow cannabis for medical use, and allow businesses to manufacture cannabidiol — a potentially effective painkiller — from those plants. If passed, the draft laws will ensure these suppliers meet strict licensing...

A campaign to legalise the medical use of cannabis is being launched amid warnings that up to 1.1 million people across Britain are currently breaking the law by taking the drug to combat the pain of chronic conditions. The drive, which coincides with a Coronation Street storyline focusing on...

For years, David Hua encountered problems when he ordered medical marijuana deliveries. Online menus were often outdated. Ordering over the phone took forever. Sending requests by email risked compromising private data. And delivery dudes were notoriously unreliable. "Sometimes it took an...

Hi, This date has been long marked in my calendar. A strain by trusted seed bank, an automatic one that has Girl Scout Cookies in it. Dutch Passion delivered. I won't be posting seedling & seed pics because it's nonsense. Soil: Seedling Light Mix / Peat moss / Worm castings / Bat guano /...

Abby Conforti was two years old when she was diagnosed with severe autism. Shortly after her third birthday, she began repeatedly biting her right arm and violently screaming. Jennifer and Bryan Conforti characterized their daughter's meltdowns as "demonic," and said they were afraid to hold...

Democratic presidential contender former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fielded a question from a medical marijuana patient during Wednesday night's New Hampshire town hall, hosted by CNN, and her response was...a little lackluster. Clinton said that marijuana should be rescheduled from a...

We are certainly not the first to surmise that if medical marijuana were called by another name – perhaps something more English and less Spanish – that there would not be such angst over it being prescribed. It's a drug, no more and no less. It's not a cure-all, and like other drugs, it can...

Dear Governor Deal: When I began growing my medical marijuana plant last month as a political statement about Georgia's need to make cannabis oil available for medical use, I had no idea the kind of nerve it would hit. Dozens of people from all across Georgia have contacted me in support of...

Last Friday marked Madelena's three-year bone marrow birthday, and coincidentally, her 17th birthday as well. How lucky we are to have her with us, and so hale and hearty. Madelena is a miracle, as we were able to get her diagnosis in an earlier stage of her disease, MLD, and she was able to...

New York's medical marijuana law, known as the Compassionate Care Act, launched just last month but has been the target of harsh criticism since Governor Andrew Cuomo signed it in July of 2014. Now Albany's biggest advocate for legal medical marijuana, Manhattan assemblyman Richard Gottfried...

It seems like every day a presidential candidate is declaring that they will make America great again. But what does that really mean? What really made America great? Well, one of the things that made America great was hemp. That's right, hemp, the much maligned cousin of marijuana. According to...

It was 2012, and Douglas Leighton wanted to pour some money into marijuana. Leighton, the co-founder of a Boston-based hedge fund called Dutchess Capital, had done his homework. He saw public opinion shifting in favor of cannabis. Laws had already begun to follow, including the legalization of...

Gov. Bruce Rauner has chosen to put politics before patients. By having the Illinois Department of Public Health deny the eight conditions that the Medical Cannabis Advisory Board approved to be added to the list of debilitating conditions for the Medical Cannabis Pilot Program, this...

In March, Croatian pharmacies are expected to finally start selling capsules of cannabis oil. The final price for end customers has not yet been defined, and it will depend on pharmacy profit margins, but it will certainly be much lower than the price on the illegal market. According to sources...

Former Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon lent his celebrity endorsement to medical marijuana this week. This endorsement served as a big shot in the arm to medical cannabis advocates, who are thrilled that the former NFL star has come forward on behalf of the cause. In addition to McMahon's...

The federal Liberals' plan to legalize recreational marijuana is officially underway. Canada's new minister of Justice, Jody Wilson-Raybould (MP for Vancouver Granville) received instructions to make it happen last November. And on January 8, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed former...

Former union boss Helen Kelly has written to Associate Health Minister Peter Dunne to seek permission to use medicinal cannabis. Ms Kelly, who has terminal lung cancer, said she hoped her application would be granted as soon as possible. "[Dunne] said it took him an hour once he got the...

Hi to all started 3 Girl Scout cookie in coco Cana 70%coco 30% perlite anyway 1 seed was a dud but 2 germinated There in 11 litre pots under 250w CFL they are 9days above soil but don't seem to be growing has anybody got any idea what I'm doing wrong I would add photos but don't no how

Columbia Care CEO Nick Vita said being in the medical marijuana business is personal. "It's very hard to watch somebody you care about not have alternatives available to them. This is just another alternative," said Vita. He's seen the business grow into the nation's largest producer and...