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Legalizing medical marijuana is once again before the Nebraska Legislature. Sponsors LB643, the Medical Cannabis Act, have modeled the bill after Minnesota's law, which passed in 2014. Gov. Pete Ricketts has opposed legalizing medical marijuana. KMTV reporter Nick Starling recently...

"Leni's Law" is now formally a bill. State Rep. Mike Ball filed the proposal Tuesday on the first day of the 2016 legislative session that would decriminalize the possession of medicinal marijuana oil that has been prescribed by a doctor. The bill is named for 4-year-old Leni Young, who...

Three moms, three children suffering from various forms of epilepsy, three different stories trying to share one message: Legalize medicinal oil derived from marijuana. In Alabama, that potential law has been dubbed Leni's Law and state Rep. Mike Ball, R-Huntsville, is the bill's sponsor...

Here's another reason why Florida state government earns little respect from citizens: Two years ago the Legislature passed a law approving medical marijuana for a very small population of residents who suffer immeasurably from seizures. This was only a low potency cannabis that lacked any...

A metro mom admits she got marijuana on the black market to allow her autistic child relief from violent rages. The mom told her story exclusively to Channel 2's Lori Geary in the hopes it will help lead to an expansion of Georgia's medical marijuana law. "I got to the point I was afraid of...

Georgia last year legalized a limited form of medical marijuana, but efforts are now underway to not only expand the law but significantly boost who would qualify to use it. At least 23 states, plus the District of Columbia and Guam, offer some form of legalized use of marijuana for medical...

Pharmacists in Connecticut have been dispensing medical cannabis for more than a year now. The state's medical cannabis law requires that a board-certified pharmacist be onsite to dispense the product at a medical cannabis dispensary, of which there are currently six in Connecticut. 
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Two state lawmakers are pushing to make it more difficult for some people to get medical marijuana. And both measures may be illegal. Rep. Kelly Townsend, R-Mesa, wants to make it a crime for a woman who is pregnant to possess the drug. That would overrule any finding by her doctor that...

Manhattan's first and only medical marijuana dispensary is like a fortress. To enter the building, located on 14th Street near the 3rd Avenue subway station, patients have to pass through two security systems before they even encounter another human. First, they flash their medical marijuana...

California's new medical marijuana laws were supposed to provide more structure and clarity for the state's loosely regulated, billion-dollar industry, but in the past few weeks, dozens of municipalities have ignored that intention by moving quickly to ban delivery and other activities codified...

Two new laws marked an overhaul of state policy on marijuana in this year's legislative session, while the Delaware General Assembly approved a more targeted revision to the state's corporate law barring the use of attorney fee-shifting provisions in corporate bylaws. The two unrelated...

Republicans go ballistic and make up all manner of bovine excrement reasons to create unconstitutional laws that they claim supersede the federal authority. In fact, Republicans and conservatives are notorious for claiming they will never tolerate anyone, much less the federal government telling...

How long have very sick patients waited to legally buy their cannabis in dispensaries? Answer: 15 years. Yet, now a community organization in Kohala prematurely wants to block medical cannabis dispensaries and grow facilities from opening in their district (West Hawaii Today, Dec. 16) even...

As an attorney, Styduhar spent his formative days in private practice with Koncilja and Koncilja doing personal injury cases, criminal defense and Social Security work, he'd access three or four of Colorado's voluminous law books. Now, 12 years later, when he talks about the areas of law he has...

By 1971, marijuana's scent hung over most of Canada. Some 1.5 million folks had taken at least one drag on a joint. Hundreds of thousands were regularly firing up, grooving to Three Dog Night and learning from the leaked Pentagon Papers that the U.S. administration had lied about the Vietnam...

Delaware has officially decriminalized possession by adults of small amounts of marijuana. A decriminalization law signed in June by Gov. Jack Markell took effect early Friday morning. The law makes possession by an adult of a "personal use" quantity of marijuana, defined as an ounce or less...

A measure that would allow terminally ill patients to use full-strength marijuana has just one more committee stop before going to the Senate floor for a vote during the 2016 legislative session. The Senate Criminal and Civil Justice Appropriations Subcommittee on Thursday unanimously approved...

Registered Uruguayan consumers will be able to access three types of marijuana in drug stores with high, medium and low levels of tetrahydrocannabinol and correspondent levels of cannabidiol, said Milton Romani, president of the country's national drug office, on Saturday. "There are three...

Motivating citizens to approve the state's medical marijuana law was the easy part. The tougher challenge for the past seven years has been implementing the law. The original law looked like a piece of Swiss cheese, according to the critics. Navigating these uncharted waters produced an ugly...

A southern Illinois man is one of two Libertarian political candidates suing the state of Illinois. The state's medical marijuana law prohibits campaign donations from companies that grow or dispense cannabis. Scott Schluter of Marion, who says he's running for State Representative, and...