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Knox Medical will soon begin dispensing medical marijuana to qualified patients. The company announced Tuesday it recently received approval from the Florida Department of Health to begin dispensing low-THC and medical cannabis this week. The company is set to begin initial deliveries to...

Montana's new medical marijuana initiative hasn't even taken full effect, with thousands of critically ill patients still awaiting legal access to the only medication that relieves their suffering, and already they are facing the possibility of hefty taxes on medical marijuana sales in the...

Proposition 64, which legalized possession of up to one ounce of marijuana for adults for recreational use, went into effect on Nov. 8 when California voters approved the initiative measure. Persons 21 years old and over who wish to begin growing their six plants or to obtain less than one ounce...

Claiming the state is hoarding funds, two medical marijuana users want a judge to reduce the annual charge for the legally required registration cards. In legal papers filed here, the attorney for Yolanda Daniels and Lisa Becker points out the Department of Health Services collected $2.6...

Many medical marijuana patients were worried that a ballot measure legalizing cannabis for recreational use in California would make the price of their medicine go up. Instead, for some of them, pot just got cheaper, though maybe not for long. The Board of Equalization recently sent notice...

Four states, including California, the nation's most populous, voted to legalize marijuana on November 8. That doubles the number of legal states to eight (plus the District of Columbia), and more than quadruples the number of people living in legal marijuana states, bringing the number to...

There's a movement underway in America. It involves changing the way Americans view a federally designated controlled substance it classifies as a Schedule I narcotic. Over the last few years, twenty-nine U.S. states have now acted against the federal government's ban on marijuana, and have...

A national nonprofit advocacy group supporting legal access to medical marijuana has petitioned the U.S. Justice Department to require drug enforcers to correct allegedly false and misleading information about cannabis use on its website. Americans for Safe Access, represented pro bono by...

Donald Trump's selection of anti-drug hardliner Alabama Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III for his attorney general nominee has entrepreneurs in the legal marijuana industry worried. While there is cautious optimism stemming from Mr. Trump's statements both in favor of medical marijuana...

State Sen. José Menéndez on Tuesday introduced a bill to legalize medical marijuana in Texas. Menéndez, a San Antonio Democrat, said medical marijuana can provide pain relief for patients with glaucoma, cancer, muscular dystrophy and other diseases and can be safer to use than other...

Hunter S. Thompson's widow is the latest entry to the growing celebrity-branded marijuana market. Anita Thompson kept 12 bags of the famous journalist's marijuana and hash stash and has sent them to a lab in Boston to be analyzed. "I will be looking for a grower as soon as I know what I will be...

The Ventura City Council on Monday temporarily banned all commercial activity related to marijuana to have more time to decide how, or if, to regulate it. The moratorium lasts up to 45 days, so in January the council is likely to extend it another 10 months. In the interim, the city could...

Many patients seek treatment at medical marijuana dispensaries because of the superb customer service and sense of control over illness they offer, not because they consider marijuana a wonder drug, said David Casarett, MD, chief of palliative care at the Duke University School of Medicine in...

Montevideo - Marijuana-friendly Uruguay will soon have a museum dedicated to pot. "It is a way to connect people who love nature, art and science," said the director of the museum, Eduardo Blasina. The museum, opening Friday in Montevideo, will help people learn more about one of the world's...

Medical marijuana may soon be available for patients in Ireland after the minority government approved Thusday a new amendment allowing use of the plant. The bill, drafted by Ireland's People Before Profit group, still has another round of approval by the government before it can become law...

Austin - A Texas state senator plans to file a bill Tuesday that would legalize medical marijuana. Jose Menendez, D-San Antonio, announced Monday that the bill would allow patients with "debilitating and chronic medical conditions" to receive marijuana prescriptions from their doctors...

With marijuana and its medical version becoming big business in Colorado and other states, the organizer of today's Capital Conference in downtown Lansing said more than 300 profit-minded Michiganders were registered to learn how they might someday turn the drug into dollars. In the banquet...

Last year, Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr was crippled by back pain so severe he missed half of his team's record-breaking regular season. He was so desperate for relief, he told the Warriors Insider podcast on Friday (as picked up by ESPN), that he even tried smoking pot. "A lot of...

About a month after Florida voters approved a constitutional amendment to broadly legalize medical marijuana, a Senate panel next week will start looking at how to carry out the requirement. The Senate Health Policy Committee is scheduled to hold a workshop on December about implementation of...

Despite the promise of landlords and housing authorities having the right to ban homegrown marijuana under the new voter-approved recreational use law, there are still concerns about cultivation and use in those settings. The law will go into effect Dec. 15, barring a delay. George C...