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A local veteran says he's being denied critical pain medication by the VA because he uses medical marijuana. Federal officials still see marijuana, even medical related, as illegal even though Nevada and 22 other states have approved its use. The VA has been giving 63-year-old Mike Potter...

New Mexico employers are not required to accommodate an employee's use of medical marijuana, according to the federal district court in New Mexico. In dismissing an employee's discrimination lawsuit, the Court recently ruled that an employee terminated for testing positive for marijuana did not...

Phillip Blanton considers himself a member of what he describes as a significant but often obscure population, one he contends is all too often defined more by stereotype than reality. The 66-year-old Blanton, who identifies himself as an authorized user of medical marijuana, came forward to...

Three-year-old Eliyah Hendrickson's body tenses up and convulses. His eyes move without his control. His arms and legs spasm as though trying to escape his torso. The toddler is seizing, a symptom of Dravet syndrome. It happens four times a day, and that's on a good day, his father...

Medical marijuana is no miracle cure. The Hauser family knew that before they gave their toddler his first dose. Wyatt Hauser of Woodbury was the first patient to be enrolled in Minnesota's medical cannabis program last summer. While the fledgling industry struggled with low enrollment, high...

Medical marijuana is fraught with politics, from local police departments warning dispensaries to shut down to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's promise of legalization. What's often lost in the noise is the people at the heart of all this: the patients. In Vernon alone, local dispensaries...

The legalization of marijuana for medical use has surfaced as an issue in the Republican primary for the state House District 91 seat in Stokes and Rockingham counties, drawing a clear contrast between two of the candidates. The candidates are incumbent Kyle Hall of King and challenger Ira...

When Raymond Schwab talks about his case, his voice teeters between anger and sadness. "People who don't understand the medical value of cannabis are tearing my family apart," says the Kansas father of five and US veteran, who has a prescription for marijuana in neighboring Colorado, where it...

The state's medical marijuana program is about two years into its four-year pilot period, though legal sales of cannabis began in November. However, patients, advocates and medical marijuana dispensary owners say there are still plenty of kinks to work out. From overly strict regulations to too...

The summer before he got sick, Nelson teen Alex Renton grew his first and only cannabis plants with his mother Rose, in a half-barrel in the garden. She'd told him no, originally — it wasn't worth it. She'd seen how cannabis convictions had ruined the lives of others. But her oldest son was...

A local father's fight to add medical marijuana dispensaries in Georgia continued Monday afternoon at the state capitol in Atlanta. Dale Jackson testified before a judiciary committee in the state House of Representatives. He and his group are currently looking over House Bill 722 and wanted...

Georgia families urged lawmakers on Monday to expand the state's medical marijuana program as critics questioned the rush toward a "substantial change" in state law. The House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee held the first hearing on House Bill 722, which would create up to six licensed...

Darren Miller is ready to enjoy his second chance at life. The 50-year-old Granite City man is putting out the word that a steady diet of cannabis oil coupled with chemotherapy wiped out what doctors had only months earlier diagnosed as "incurable, inoperable" lung and pericardial heart sac...

Brian Gorham lifted a piece of steel the wrong way one day at his job at a steel mill in Nevada. He said it changed the course of his life for the next 12 years. In overwhelming pain, he sought out medical treatment and was initially diagnosed with having the lowest discs in his back bulging...

The next phase in the state Capitol fight over medicinal marijuana could involve handcuffs and law-breaking. Principled law-breaking, but law-breaking nonetheless. In fact, it already has. Last spring, when Gov. Nathan Deal signed Haleigh's Hope Act into law, you might have assumed that...

Six-year-old Tristan Stiffler could die before the state legislature approves cannabidiol (CBD), an extract of the marijuana plant, for the treatment of his epilepsy. His grandmother, Pam Coats, a former Delaware County correctional officer, hopes Tristan lives a long life. But she fears that...

Welcome to the 2016 ALL BID GENETICS GROW! All plants I will be growing are BID GENETICS from his seed experiments or my cross strains using BID BEANS I have three babies that are up and going, I will be popping some more later this month. One KROC (his strain) and two HYBID (my cross...

Fallen Warrior - Tim '420 Motoco' Tim, aka 420 Motoco, died suddenly and unexpectedly just before Christmas 2015, at the age of 66. His key threads — "How To Make Concentrated Cannabis Oil" and "Cannabis Oil Dosing Tutorial - Tacking Method" — gave clear and detailed instructions on the...

State officials identified potential growers, including one in Grant County, to test whether industrial hemp could be successfully grown in North Dakota. Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring will make the final choices, but three or four of the 11 eligible producer applications stood out...

The issue of medical marijuana cultivation will get major attention in this year's Georgia legislature. One man, an hour from the Capitol, is addressing it his own way. Mike Buffington is what you might call an amateur gardener. "I don't even like mowing grass," he confessed to 11Alive's Matt...