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As I wandered down Nostrand Avenue looking for the right building, he stood in the middle of the busy sidewalk, raised his left hand high, and waved in my direction. "I'm right here!" he said. He greeted me with a firm handshake and a wide smile. Charlie, who asked that we refer to him...

On April 19, the Maine Department of Health and Human Services will hear testimony and receive documentation concerning whether to allow providers to use medical marijuana to treat "addiction to opiates and drugs derived from chemical synthesis." I hope department officials give due...

After much criticism coming from legalization activists and the political opposition for his decision not to attend a major UN global drug policy meeting next week, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has reversed course. Peña Nieto's office released a statement on Friday afternoon...

A bipartisan group of congressional representatives and senators sent a letter to President Obama Friday urging him to facilitate medical research on marijuana. U.S. Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-Ninth District) was one of the group, saying marijuana's medicinal benefits need more attention and...

Michael Wyllie got into a severe car accident in December 2011. He was ejected from a vehicle, breaking both of his legs below the knees and fracturing his skull. "I was discharged with morphine and oxycodone," Wyllie said. That led to about a year of being on various opioids, which he...

It's been three months since the state of New York rolled out its medical marijuana program. As of this week, according to the New York State Department of Health's website, 526 doctors are registered for the program, and more than 2600 patients are certified by the state to receive it...

Have you ever been so passionate about something that you just couldn't take no for an answer? So frustrated that others didn't share your passion, but you were determined to find a way? Dawson Julia has felt that way. At the beginning of this legislative session, he testified in front of the...

Some of New York's top doctors spent countless hours last year examining Andrew Greenspan. His constant pain and dangerously high fevers had them baffled. At one point, they quarantined him in fear of tropical diseases. A team of neurologists finally cracked the medical mystery: Greenspan...

'Mr Nice' Howard Marks dies aged 70 Howard Marks, who has died aged 70 of cancer, was Britain's best-known and most charming drugs smuggler, and also a successful author and raconteur. He translated a lifetime of international cannabis dealing and a long stretch in an American jail into a...

Country icon Merle Haggard passed away on his 79th birthday Wednesday of complications from double pneumonia at his home in Northern California. A voice for the poor, the workingman, the outlaw, the lost and the heartbroken, Haggard's political stance shifted greatly over his six-decade musical...

After 18 months, a Spring Lake family's son is out of foster care and reunited with his parents. Yet the fight to be together, through court battles and serious drug charges despite being card-carrying medical marijuana patients, still haunts them. Thursday, Max Lorincz's son Dante, 6...

More than 250 people came out Tuesday night to join Sensible B.C.'s Dana Larsen during the launch of his campaign to legalize marijuana in Canada. They each collected 100 free high-CBD cannabis seeds that Larsen has asked them to plant in plain site, something that's illegal in Canada. The...

After weeks of trying to pass a medical marijuana bill — supporters say it never really stood a chance. We've been following the story of Dale Jackson. The Troup County father who is fighting for changes in the law for cannabis oil to help his autistic son Colin and other families in the...

A family in Israel is using medical marijuana to treat their son's chronic health conditions. It's their last hope, after many other treatments failed to bring the toddler any relief. For two and a half year old Lavie Parush, moments of joy are all too brief. Diagnosed with severe...

I have yet to read the texts recommended by Clifford Schaffer in his letter "Drug laws not helping" on March 15, but otherwise I agree wholeheartedly with his views. Richard Nixon, under immense pressure following the US disaster in Vietnam and the looming Watergate affair, desperately needed...

A severely epileptic boy is "99% seizure-free" after undergoing pioneering cannabis oil treatment in America. Yvonne Cahalane is calling for the legalisation of medicinal marijuana in Ireland after seeing the amazing transformation in her son. She moved to Colorado with two-year-old son...

By many accounts, Monday was a banner day for the marijuana movement in the courts. In the nation's capital, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up a lawsuit filed by Nebraska and Oklahoma to overturn Colorado's legalized marijuana program, meaning that if the two states' attorneys general...

For the last few weeks, I've been spending time interviewing medical marijuana caregivers Glenn and Catherine Lewis, as well as some of their colleagues, clients and friends. Glenn and Catherine run Homegrown Healthcare of Maine LLC in Manchester, Maine. As caregivers, they grow different...

A local woman is trying to raise money for her brother who has suffered daily seizures for nearly 20 years. The family was extremely relived when he was approved for medical marijuana oil in NYS, but with the cost for one year being over $24,000 — they had to stop his treatment because they...

A local woman is trying to raise money for her brother who has suffered daily seizures for nearly 20 years. The family was extremely relived when he was approved for medical marijuana oil in NYS, but with the cost for one year being over $24,000 — they had to stop his treatment because they...