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One patient was a Vietnam Veteran living with chronic pain after an amputation. Another was a middle age woman suffering from late-stage multiple sclerosis. Others faced serious cancer or intractable epilepsy. They all came to hear Dr. Kenneth Moritsugu, the former U.S. Surgeon General, speak...

One patient was a Vietnam Veteran living with chronic pain after an amputation. Another was a middle age woman suffering from late-stage multiple sclerosis. Others faced serious cancer or intractable epilepsy. They all came to hear Dr. Kenneth Moritsugu, the former U.S. Surgeon General, speak...

On Tuesday, Anaheim Police Chief Raul Quezada moderated a marijuana legalization workshop, in which seven panelists took on the impacts of California's Proposition 64, or the Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA). During the two-hour seminar, however, it became apparent that it was going to be less...

Northhampton, Mass. — In one month, Massachusetts voters will decide whether to legalize marijuana for recreational use. A "yes" vote on Question 4 is a vote to legalize recreational marijuana, but it is more than that. The ballot question also deals with how to tax the drug. It would put the...

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...

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...

Lemoore - Next month voters will have to decide whether to make recreational marijuana legal in California but Lemoore city leaders are already regulating recreational marijuana in the community if Proposition 64, also known as the Adult Use Marijuana Act, passes. On Tuesday, the Lemoore City...

Boston - Since the decriminalization of marijuana possession in Massachusetts, racial disparities in marijuana arrests have persisted, disproportionately hurting African-Americans and Latinos. Supporters of the legalization of recreational marijuana are pointing to the racial disparities as...

Pueblo was the site of plenty of potshots on October 5, when an anti-marijuana group refused to attend what was supposed to be a peaceful discussion on Proposition 200, which would ban the recreational cannabis industry in Pueblo County. Instead, Citizens for a Healthy Pueblo hosted their own...

If politics make for strange bedfellows, then the issue of legalized medical marijuana in Ohio certainly has created a few of its own. The issue has pitted the critically ill and their doctors, who say the drug is safe, cheap and effective, against communities already reeling from the heroin...

If politics make for strange bedfellows, then the issue of legalized medical marijuana in Ohio certainly has created a few of its own. The issue has pitted the critically ill and their doctors, who say the drug is safe, cheap and effective, against communities already reeling from the heroin...

Eighty-one-year-old grandmother Margaret "Peg" Holcomb is still in a huff after state police and the National Guard deployed ground troops and a helicopter at her Amherst home and chopped down the 6-foot-tall marijuana plant growing out back with her raspberries. "It's ridiculous," Holcomb...

Voters in five states – Arizona, California, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada – will decide this November on ballot initiatives seeking to legalize and regulate the adult use, production, and retail sale of marijuana. Polling data shows these measures to be leading among likely voters...

Good morning from Gardiner. I spent last night at the forum on Question 1 organized by CBS 13 and the Bangor Daily News, which was marked by division among medical marijuana activists on the benefits of legalizing recreational use of the drug. The panel was traditionally divided: Representing...

Good morning from Gardiner. I spent last night at the forum on Question 1 organized by CBS 13 and the Bangor Daily News, which was marked by division among medical marijuana activists on the benefits of legalizing recreational use of the drug. The panel was traditionally divided: Representing...

Phoenix - Voters will have the opportunity to legalize recreational marijuana in Arizona for adults over 21 in this year's general election. And half of respondents in a recent poll say they are in favor. The Morrison Institute, Arizona Republic and Cronkite News partnered on the poll...

The people fighting the ballot measure, which would legalize recreational marijuana, keep saying they don't want to see private drug suppliers making big profits here. "It is not about whether an adult can use marijuana in their own home," state Senator Jason Lewis of Worcester said at a debate...

In 2015, the Drug Enforcement Administration gave $20,000 to the state of New Hampshire to eradicate marijuana plants, according to federal documents. But the Granite State's law enforcement agencies didn't have much luck finding any weed to pull that year - their efforts uncovered a single...

Boston — Eight years after Massachusetts voted to decriminalize the possession of less than an ounce of marijuana, racial disparities in arrests for marijuana possession have continued, a report from the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts found, and they disproportionately affect...

North Attleborough selectmen approved a host community agreement with a proposed medical marijuana facility Thursday night, but at the same meeting the members tabled a letter of support for the facility. Hope Heal Health has proposed building a dispensary and cultivation center in the North...