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Springfield, Ill. - Next week brings the anniversary of legal medical marijuana sales in Illinois and the program is growing steadily. Patients with state approval to buy marijuana now number about 12,000. The state released new monthly figures Wednesday. Retailers sold $4.1 million in...

Fulton, Illinois - It's been almost a year since medical marijuana sales started in Illinois and profits are skyrocketing. Sales have topped $23.5 million since the program started last November. As of October, 11 2016 the program now includes more than 11,000 patients and the number of...

Fulton, Illinois - It's been almost a year since medical marijuana sales started in Illinois and profits are skyrocketing. Sales have topped $23.5 million since the program started last November. As of October, 11 2016 the program now includes more than 11,000 patients and the number of...

Springfield, Ill. - Medical marijuana sales reached more than $3.8 million last month at licensed dispensaries throughout Illinois. The state released new monthly sales figures Wednesday. September's sales figures bring the total retail sales in Illinois to $23.5 million since purchasing began...

Springfield, Ill. - Medical marijuana sales reached more than $3.8 million last month at licensed dispensaries throughout Illinois. The state released new monthly sales figures Wednesday. September's sales figures bring the total retail sales in Illinois to $23.5 million since purchasing began...

Nicholas Vita is a former Goldman Sachs investment banker who specialized in medical deals back when he worked in the financial services industry. Big money, however, isn't the chief reason he gives for trying to build a multistate network of medical marijuana clinics, including one expected to...

Nicholas Vita is a former Goldman Sachs investment banker who specialized in medical deals back when he worked in the financial services industry. Big money, however, isn't the chief reason he gives for trying to build a multistate network of medical marijuana clinics, including one expected to...

Sauget, Ill. - Illinois' largest marijuana dispensary is set to open next month in the Sauget area, but the public is getting a peek inside early. The Green Solution will sell different types of marijuana for medicinal purposes only. People can buy up to two and a half ounces every two weeks...

Sauget, Ill. - Illinois' largest marijuana dispensary is set to open next month in the Sauget area, but the public is getting a peek inside early. The Green Solution will sell different types of marijuana for medicinal purposes only. People can buy up to two and a half ounces every two weeks...

Advocates for legal marijuana in Illinois may want to look to Massachusetts this fall. Or, as one cannabis industry insider said, they may want to look to Massachusetts' neighbors in about a year. Nick Kovascevich, CEO at the cannabis investing service Kush Bottles, said that if marijuana...

Sorry if this isn't the right forum, this is my first time posting. Allow me to introduce my self, I am an Illinois resident that suffers from sciatic and lower back pain as a result of a herniated disc. I've seen my doctor for a few years already for my condition. My pain has recently become...

Joliet - Bright lights, swirling air and the pungent odor of maturing buds laced with sticky oil from thousands of plants with distinctive green leaves greet visitors at Cresco Labs' medical marijuana cultivation center. Officials from Chicago-based Cresco, who operate a growing facility in...

Joliet - Bright lights, swirling air and the pungent odor of maturing buds laced with sticky oil from thousands of plants with distinctive green leaves greet visitors at Cresco Labs' medical marijuana cultivation center. Officials from Chicago-based Cresco, who operate a growing facility in...

Illinois medical marijuana is on the cusp of expansion. It got a new fillip from the bill signed by Illinois State Gov. Bruce Rauner on July 29 that removed criminal penalties for possession of 10 grams or less of marijuana. The Governor's decree made Illinois the 21st state to decriminalize...

Illinois medical marijuana is on the cusp of expansion. It got a new fillip from the bill signed by Illinois State Gov. Bruce Rauner on July 29 that removed criminal penalties for possession of 10 grams or less of marijuana. The Governor's decree made Illinois the 21st state to decriminalize...

In a warehouse in Joliet, hundreds of marijuana plants sway under high-intensity lights, taking in carbon dioxide-rich air, sucking up a constant feed of nutrients and bristling with buds. Like Olympic athletes, the plants are rigorously trained and intensively pampered. Tiny predator bugs...

In a warehouse in Joliet, hundreds of marijuana plants sway under high-intensity lights, taking in carbon dioxide-rich air, sucking up a constant feed of nutrients and bristling with buds. Like Olympic athletes, the plants are rigorously trained and intensively pampered. Tiny predator bugs...

Galesburg, Ill. Two recent events concerning imprisonment now lead to two key questions. Gov. Bruce Rauner on July 30 signed a bipartisan measure decriminalizing marijuana in Illinois, and Pres. Barack Obama on Aug. 3 commuted sentences for 214 inmates, mostly nonviolent offenders. So...

Colorado leaped. Illinois crawled. And, to its social and fiscal detriment, Iowa is a stationary observer. Marijuana policy is, quite literally, all over the map. Illinois last week joined the eastern model, using decriminalization as the next cautious step toward reasonable pot policy. It's...

Chicago - The Latest on the medical marijuana program in Illinois (all times local): 10 a.m. Illinois patients legally purchased $2.9 million worth of medical marijuana products in July. State officials with the medical cannabis pilot program released the figures Wednesday. June sales had...