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12-year-old Christina Clark takes medical marijuana. Her mother Anneliese Clark uses it to treat the seizures her daughter has had since she was three months old. At her worst, "she just literally, she wasn't doing anything," Anneliese Clark said. "She laid on the couch and shook and...

Two prospective medical marijuana producers have their sights on Red Deer County. A development permit has already been issued for one proposal, and the another application is in the approval process for undisclosed sites. Given the recent controversy around a proposed medical marijuana...

Two prospective medical marijuana producers have their sights on Red Deer County. A development permit has already been issued for one proposal, and the another application is in the approval process for undisclosed sites. Given the recent controversy around a proposed medical marijuana...

Scottsdale, AZ - Just weeks away from putting the issue of recreational marijuana use in front of Arizona voters, Scottsdale is opening up its newest medical marijuana dispensary. Located near Hayden Road and Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard, Harvest of Scottsdale opened its doors...

Scottsdale, AZ - Just weeks away from putting the issue of recreational marijuana use in front of Arizona voters, Scottsdale is opening up its newest medical marijuana dispensary. Located near Hayden Road and Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard, Harvest of Scottsdale opened its doors...

A sense of certainty that recreational marijuana use will be legalized, regulated and taxed in California after next month's election lies behind the millions of dollars invested so far in Proposition 64, which would allow adults to grow, buy and possess pot. No more medical marijuana ruses...

The city of Long Beach has proposed a new measure that would add a general tax to local businesses that distribute marijuana, should the drug be legalized statewide in November. As reported by the Long Beach Press Telegram, Measure MA would include a 6 percent gross receipts tax on medical...

Arrests for simple marijuana possession in the United States fell to nearly a two-decade low last year, according to new statistics released Monday by the FBI. The number of arrests for marijuana possession in 2015 - 574,641 - is the lowest number since 1996. It represents a 7 percent...

One of the major campaign promises of cannabis legalization was to begin undoing some of the damage of the War on Drugs in minority communities. But while the new recreational market has reduced cannabis-related arrests, it hasn't created wealth in those communities. White people are getting...

For decades, small growers in Humboldt County have made a living cultivating and selling cannabis. But over the last 10 years or so, outsiders have been pouring in to the region trying to cash in on the “green rush” for commercial cannabis. The medical marijuana industry has certainly sparked a...

A majority of Maine voters favor legalizing marijuana for recreational use, according to a new Portland Press Herald poll showing a groundswell of support among residents under age 50 and among those living in southern or coastal areas. Roughly 53 percent of respondents in the newspaper's...

Is marijuana a gateway drug? Carrie Roberts sure hopes so. Roberts, a consultant with Colorado-based Medicine Man Technologies, doesn't believe that marijuana use leads to abuse of harder drugs, though. Instead, she thinks it might present a gateway out of risky drug use for people struggling...

Is marijuana a gateway drug? Carrie Roberts sure hopes so. Roberts, a consultant with Colorado-based Medicine Man Technologies, doesn't believe that marijuana use leads to abuse of harder drugs, though. Instead, she thinks it might present a gateway out of risky drug use for people struggling...

Cancer is the second most common cause of death in the U.S. resulting in at least 584,881 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Recent animal studies show that marijuana extracts can help kill certain cancer cells and even reduce the size of some of them. But...

Cancer is the second most common cause of death in the U.S. resulting in at least 584,881 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Recent animal studies show that marijuana extracts can help kill certain cancer cells and even reduce the size of some of them. But...

On a former cattle ranch along the Rogue River, a massive commercial marijuana-growing operation may be a harbinger of things to come in the Rogue Valley. Next to a working alfalfa field, 1,100 cannabis plants are flowering in rows extending hundreds of feet and representing more than a ton...

As marijuana reform advocates (and perhaps regular readers) know, 2016 has been something of a banner year for medical marijuana reform in key part of the northern midwest. Specifically, - in April, Pennsylvania's Democratic Governor signed into law the Keystone State's new medical marijuana...

As marijuana reform advocates (and perhaps regular readers) know, 2016 has been something of a banner year for medical marijuana reform in key part of the northern midwest. Specifically, - in April, Pennsylvania's Democratic Governor signed into law the Keystone State's new medical marijuana...

A New Jersey State Assemblyman on Thursday introduced a bold, cannabis-friendly bill that would legalize and regulate recreational marijuana in the Garden State. The proposed law — A4193 - would legalize marijuana and "provide for records expungement" for certain past marijuana offenses. In...

Marijuana advocates in Nebraska have traded in their rolling papers for initiative petitions. That means voters may soon need to think deeply about the issues of medical and recreational marijuana use. In Nebraska two groups are circulating initiative petitions to put the question on the...