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Users of medical marijuana are marking the one-year anniversary of its legalization in Minnesota, even as some criticize its high cost and persistent outlaw stigma. Cannabis - in pill, liquid and vapor form - became available July 1, 2015, to treat such conditions as cancer-related nausea...

Fargo - Marty Riske's platform is unconventional for a candidate seeking the North Dakota governor's office. He advocates legalizing marijuana and stopping civil forfeiture of property seized in criminal investigations. The Fargo businessman, whose only earlier run for political office was a...

The political eyes of the nation will be turned to Cleveland in little more than a week for the Republican National Convention. Don Murphy won't be viewing it from his Catonsville couch. The 55-year-old will be a part of it. For Murphy, director of conservative outreach for the Marijuana...

In the marijuana world, cannabis breeder Daniel John "D.J." Short gets rock star raves while simultaneously keeping to the shadows. The Pendleton marijuana man started tinkering with cannabis genetics about 40 years ago in Eugene and has crafted some of the most creative and well-known...

The Astoria Planning Commission on Tuesday approved a conditional use permit for Astoria Indoor Garden Supply owner Oscar Nelson to grow marijuana and make soap inside his new location. Nelson, also a partner in the dispensary chain Sweet Relief Natural Medicine, moved the store from downtown...

Jay Lassiter is, like so many AIDS patients, a survivor. He contracted the disease nearly 25 years ago, yet there's still plenty of vitality left in the 44-year-old. A cocktail of more than 50 pills each week keeps his HIV in check, but they run roughshod on his digestive organs. Severe bouts...

Jay Lassiter is, like so many AIDS patients, a survivor. He contracted the disease nearly 25 years ago, yet there's still plenty of vitality left in the 44-year-old. A cocktail of more than 50 pills each week keeps his HIV in check, but they run roughshod on his digestive organs. Severe bouts...

“Budtender” Michael Rose introduced himself to me at the LoDo Wellness Center in downtown Denver last week. Don’t let the business name mislead you. This is not a place filled with treadmills and barbells, and Rose is not a fitness trainer. This is a retail store filled with recreational...

Barack Obama has roughly six months left in office. Will he end the country's war on marijuana before the clock runs out? Probably not. But rapper Prince Ea isn't ready to stop trying. In his latest video, he's created a 10-minute magnum opus on why America's war on this Schedule I drug...

In 2006, American Floyd Landis won one of the most dramatic editions of the Tour de France. But just weeks later he dramatically lost his title after a positive test result showed he had used performance-enhancing drugs during that Tour. So started a years-long drama that would feature...

Derrick Morgan says he has never been diagnosed with a concussion. Yet as the 27-year-old prepared for the relatively quiet months between his sixth and seventh NFL seasons, he had two priorities: working toward his MBA at the University of Miami, and finding a way to preserve his brain so...

After the state issued its first marijuana growing permits on June 9 and 10, nine local cultivators were approved by the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly on Tuesday. Many expect to have crops ready by the end of the year. Four cultivators applied for and received a standard grow license -...

Elgin, North Dakota — Out in a field that can be viewed from the windows of a farmhouse in southwestern North Dakota, Clarence Laub III, finished seeding his industrial hemp crop on June 1. Laub III had already planted the other crops on the family farm, planting their sunflowers the week...

Mexico, Missouri - A smartphone camera poked out of his shirt pocket. An attorney stood at his side. And in his right hand was a manila folder containing a printout of a law whose impotence would soon be revealed. "Hi, there," said Aaron Malin to a jailer behind a security window at the Audrain...

But Sanders did not concede to or praise Clinton, something many Democrats would like to see before the Democratic National Convention next month to fully unify the party heading into the heat of the fall campaign. When asked if he would vote for Clinton in November, Sanders responded with...

Mountain Ranch, California Before the sky rained fire last September, Thomas Liberty figured he knew where he wanted to be for the rest of his life. A former Air Force psychiatric technician and group home counselor for emotionally disturbed teens, Liberty lived with his wife, Lauren, a...

Hesperia, California - Army veteran and amputee Jose Martinez received a standing ovation after he shared how medical cannabis relieved his pain and calmed his mind after he stepped on an IED in Afghanistan four years ago. Martinez joined several cannabis professionals who spoke at the...

Hesperia, California - Army veteran and amputee Jose Martinez received a standing ovation after he shared how medical cannabis relieved his pain and calmed his mind after he stepped on an IED in Afghanistan four years ago. Martinez joined several cannabis professionals who spoke at the...

Eugene, Oregon - An arbitrator has ruled that Lane County erred in firing an employee for his off-duty use of medical marijuana that he says was based on the recommendation of a doctor for side effects from cancer treatment. The Register-Guard reports Michael Hirsch will be reinstated as a...

Eugene, Oregon - An arbitrator has ruled that Lane County erred in firing an employee for his off-duty use of medical marijuana that he says was based on the recommendation of a doctor for side effects from cancer treatment. The Register-Guard reports Michael Hirsch will be reinstated as a...