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An Oregon Health Authority announcement that unlicensed production of marijuana concentrates will be considered a felony has effectively shut down Oregon's extraction industry for more than two weeks. At a March 15 forum hosted by the Oregon Cannabis Association at Refuge PDX, marijuana...

In 2004, Montanans voted to legalize medical marijuana. After that, things careened out of control. A cottage industry sprang up that provided marijuana prescriptions pretty much for the asking. And marijuana providers were more than happy to meet the demand. Soon there were literally tens of...

The first country in the world to legalize marijuana sales was Uruguay, a tiny South American nation with a population of only 3.3 million wedged between Brazil and Argentina. Uruguay fully legalized the production and sale of marijuana in December 2013 after a decade-long grassroots movement...

People who want to get into the medical marijuana business in Louisiana are going to need to pay a $5,000 application fee in addition to a $150 licensing fee if they want to become one of 10 marijuana pharmacists in the state. The $5,000 application fee will be non-refundable, and will only be...

Lack of clarity in Nevada's medical marijuana law opens the door for litigation over employer requirements to accommodate workers who use medicinal marijuana, lawyers told a state advisory panel Wednesday. Edwin Keller Jr. and Robert Spretnak, labor and employment law attorneys, told the...

Bruce Block said the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act is clearly unclear. Block, a defense attorney in Grand Rapids, is convinced the issues with raids across the state are the result of a law interpreted in different ways leading to confusion and misinformation. "Something needs to happen...

The Montana Supreme Court has upheld against a state constitutional challenge the State's 2011 Montana Marijuana Act, a new statutory framework embodying the State's effort to limit abuses resulting from the 2004 Medical Marijuana Act, which was established by voter initiation. Montana Cannabis...

As more patients across New York take advantage of the state's newly-implemented medical marijuana program, employers will likely need to tweak their company drug policies to accommodate change. The program, which was launched by the state Department of Health on Jan. 7, provides access to the...

Severe medical marijuana restrictions that would force the closure of large dispensaries should go into effect no more than 49 days after the Montana Supreme Court upheld a disputed 2011 state law, an attorney for the Department of Justice said Tuesday. State health officials are backing...

A federal judge in Colorado recently ruled that a commercial property and general liability policy issued to a medical marijuana dispensary and its cultivation facility can provide coverage for harvested marijuana that is damaged or destroyed. In the case of The Green Earth Wellness Center, LLC...

After a tense debate, a Senate committee Monday backed a bill that calls for allowing terminally ill patients to have access to medical marijuana and revamping a 2014 cannabis law that has been tangled in legal fights. The bill (SB 460), approved by the Senate Rules Committee, would allow...

ealth officials wrongly rejected an application from a Gainesville nursery in competition to become one of the state's five medical-marijuana dispensing organizations, according to a ruling issued Friday. The Florida Department of Health erroneously disqualified Daniel Banks, the director of...

A quick prayer prepared a group of parents to -- very publicly -- break the law. "The governor has asked us to break federal law, the governor has asked us to break another state's law," parent Vince Seivert said. A room full of parents who have kids they believe can benefit from cannabis...

The medical marijuana dispensary in the capital city officially opened to the public on Thursday. Local law enforcement tells us they are still learning how to enforce the law. There are many restrictions on its use, even for those with cards, like the 25 people who signed up at HCI...

News5 first introduced you to Jennie Stormes last May. She's the mother of a severely disabled District 49 student that was suspended when she accidentally sent his cannabis medication to school in a lunchbox. Since then, an amendment to the Colorado Caregiver bill called Jack's Law was signed...

Families who qualify for Florida's small medical marijuana program could soon have access to the drug by summer. It's been nearly two years since the Florida legislature approved the use of a non-euphoric strain of marijuana for certain conditions. The Florida Department of Health has built...

If there is anything I have learned in my years of service in the Iowa House of Representatives it is this: Nothing is easy. What one might believe to be a small, simple legislative initiative often takes years to push through the system, and many times said initiative will never actually...

Montana is one of 13 states to legalize a commercial industrial hemp program. A provision in the U.S. Farm Bill allows universities and state agriculture departments to begin cultivating hemp for research. Production is limited to pilot projects. The federal government classifies hemp as an...

The Augusta Board of Education has approved a policy that would allow students to use medical marijuana to manage various medical conditions. The Kennebec Journal reports the new policy was written as a means to guide school staff members and was based on a model from the Maine School...

A Georgia House of Representatives Committee revisited State Representative Allen Peake's proposal to expand the state's medical marijuana law Monday. The Judiciary Non-Civil Committee met in the Coverdell Legislative Office Building in Atlanta to review the House Bill 722's details. The...