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Columbus, Ohio - Medical marijuana is legal in 25 states, but none currently allow users to bring marijuana across state lines. That could change if a bill introduced last week passes: It would allow those with legal access to medical marijuana in Ohio to bring it into Pennsylvania...

Columbus, Ohio - Medical marijuana is legal in 25 states, but none currently allow users to bring marijuana across state lines. That could change if a bill introduced last week passes: It would allow those with legal access to medical marijuana in Ohio to bring it into Pennsylvania...

Phoenix - Foes of legalized recreational marijuana are building up a war chest in a bid to kill Proposition 205, apparently with a last-minute barrage of media. New reports filed with the Secretary of State's Office show that the anti-205 Arizonans for Responsible Drug Policy has so far...

As a physician, I want to help people. I see patients every day and night in the ER with pain, nausea, seizures, muscle spasticity and many other devastating conditions like cancer, paralysis and chronic pain. I am frustrated that we do not have better choices to treat them. - I want better...

As a physician, I want to help people. I see patients every day and night in the ER with pain, nausea, seizures, muscle spasticity and many other devastating conditions like cancer, paralysis and chronic pain. I am frustrated that we do not have better choices to treat them. - I want better...

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is interested in partnering with medical marijuana companies to do research on the benefits, and any possible hazards, of using marijuana to treat serious medical conditions. In a letter sent last week to School of Medicine colleagues, Art...

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is interested in partnering with medical marijuana companies to do research on the benefits, and any possible hazards, of using marijuana to treat serious medical conditions. In a letter sent last week to School of Medicine colleagues, Art...

Hilo - The wife of a well-known marijuana activist who spent more than four years in federal prison after his downtown Hilo marijuana ministry was raided is now making a last-ditch effort to prevent her own incarceration. Share Christie was sentenced in April 2014 to 27 months in prison as a...

Proponents of a constitutional amendment that would broadly legalize medical marijuana in Florida received a $1 million boost this week from a political committee focused on similar initiatives in other states. The committee, New Approach, is tied to the family of the late philanthropist Peter...

Proponents of a constitutional amendment that would broadly legalize medical marijuana in Florida received a $1 million boost this week from a political committee focused on similar initiatives in other states. The committee, New Approach, is tied to the family of the late philanthropist Peter...

Norfolk, Va. - The push to decriminalize marijuana in the City of Norfolk takes the next step on Monday. City Councilman Paul Riddick made the suggestion to decriminalize pot during a council meeting last month. Now a group is working to lobby lawmakers at the city and state level. They say...

In Hopkinton, the Board of Selectmen proclaimed that a medical marijuana dispensary simply wouldn't fit the town's family-oriented image, and voted against a proposed store. In Seekonk, town leaders fretted that dispensaries would bring crime and an onslaught of marijuana smokers to their...

In Hopkinton, the Board of Selectmen proclaimed that a medical marijuana dispensary simply wouldn't fit the town's family-oriented image, and voted against a proposed store. In Seekonk, town leaders fretted that dispensaries would bring crime and an onslaught of marijuana smokers to their...

Oklahoma City — Supporters of a proposal to legalize use of marijuana for medical purposes got some good news this week, clearing the way for an eventual vote on the statutory ballot initiative. As a ten-day period for challenges to petition signatures ended, no hurdles remained to clear the...

Oklahoma City — Supporters of a proposal to legalize use of marijuana for medical purposes got some good news this week, clearing the way for an eventual vote on the statutory ballot initiative. As a ten-day period for challenges to petition signatures ended, no hurdles remained to clear the...

Madison - As the ongoing debate on whether to legalize marijuana continues, hundreds of protesters gathered on the steps of the capitol building to rally in support of legalizing the drug. The protest was part of the 46th annual Madison Hemp Festival. Many pro-marijuana activists spoke at the...

As in many states, Maine marijuana laws have relaxed in the past 15 years, and now, on November 8, voters will face the question of legalizing the cultivation, use and possession of marijuana by those 21 or older. The medical marijuana law was passed in 1999, and a 2009 ballot initiative...

Aiming to legalize marijuana in Massachusetts through a November ballot question, the "Yes on 4" campaign launched a television ad featuring retired Boston cop Tom Nolan. "Question 4 requires strict product labeling and childproof packaging and bans advertising directed at kids," said Nolan...

Palmer - Voters in the Alaska's unofficial cannabis capital will decide this week whether Mat-Su's unincorporated areas should opt out of legal commercial marijuana sales altogether. That's an option offered to local governments by the 2014 ballot measure that legalized recreational use in...

Last week, fundraising for the group opposing medical marijuana slowed, while supporters continued raising money. But campaign finance disclosures for Sept. 17-23 show that Drug Free Florida, which opposes a constitutional amendment expanding medical marijuana, spent another $392,919 placing TV...