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U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams said medical marijuana should be studied and treated like other pain relief drugs but said he could not favor legalizing its recreational use. "Under medical marijuana, I believe it should be like any other drug," Adams said Friday in Indianapolis. "We need...

Medical marijuana providers and patients in Montana say proposed regulatory actions would place considerable cost and time burdens on them. The Montana Standard reports the stakeholders voiced opposition to the set of proposed rules during a hearing Thursday at the state Department of Public...

Gov. Bruce Rauner is taking a blunt stance, telling a Downstate TV station that it would be a "mistake" to legalize marijuana in Illinois. The Republican governor has, in the past, said he wants more studies on the "ramifications" in states that have legalized the drug. On Wednesday, he took...

Within weeks an estimated 150,000 Texas patients suffering from untreatable epilepsy will have a new means of relief. Cannabidiol (CBD), a form of medical marijuana, will finally be delivered to patients who qualify under the state's very strict guidelines. The CBD reduces or halts...

The debate is coming to Indiana. It's already been settled in Illinois, Ohio, Michigan and 26 other states that have legalized the use of marijuana to treat certain illnesses. Soon, perhaps as early as next month, the Indiana General Assembly will be asked to consider the question of...

At least 200 would-be customers were lined up outside Rockville's first medical marijuana dispensary Friday afternoon when one of the owners announced that a cannabis shipment - including elixirs, tablets and flowers - had arrived. Bill Askinazi promised that everyone in line would go home with...

Alcoholic beverage sales fell by 15 percent following the introduction of medical marijuana laws in a number of states, according to a new working paper by researchers at the University of Connecticut and Georgia State University. The study adds to a growing body of evidence showing that...

For a long time, there were no marijuana brands. Cannabis growers spent so much time trying to conceal their identity from law enforcement and potential thieves that it simply made no sense to create distinctive packaging that would make it easier to track their product. Weed nerds might...

As more medical marijuana dispensaries open in Florida, one state representative is warning users that they can face serious legal consequences if they also own a gun. Rep. Cord Byrd is a lifetime outdoorsman and hunter and has dubbed himself the "Florida gun lawyer" in his private practice...

Now that Proposition 64 has legalized recreational marijuana use in California, you might think this is the end for medical marijuana. Think again. The initiative is laced with restrictions, and a closer look reveals several major benefits of getting a medical marijuana card in 2018. In fact...

It's an old cliché, but one doesn't find beer distributors gunning each other down in the town square in battles over market turf. Whisky distillers don't dump pollutants in streams and rivers–and bars and restaurants that serve cocktails tend to be safe places that follow modern building...

Georgia's Constitutional Court has decriminalized marijuana use. The court ruled on November 30 that the use of marijuana or other forms of cannabis-based drugs cannot be considered a crime. Georgia's existing Criminal Code defines repetitive use of marijuana and possession of more than 70...

Move over, 4/20. California has a new pot holiday: Jan. 1, 2018. It's a date that dispensaries and marijuana consumers have had in their sights ever since Proposition 64 designated it as the official opening of the adult-use market in California. After a year of anticipation, the big...

One of the first medical marijuana dispensaries in Maryland will start selling the drug to patients in Rockville today, and Bill Askinazi says he's ready. "It's amazing. It's really the start of the culmination of a four-year journey for us," Askinazi said. Askinazi owns Potomac Holistics...

City councilors had a sharply divided reaction Thursday to a proposal to enact a local six-month moratorium banning the sale of recreational marijuana, with some councilors saying the city and the state already have had more than a year to come up with regulations but failed to do so. Other...

Jeff Sessions is suggesting that federal authorities will crack down on marijuana even in states where it has been legalized for recreational use. The attorney general hinted of a coming Department of Justice crackdown on the drug on Wednesday, suggesting there were likely to be changes to...

Ohioans are a little closer to having access to medical marijuana. The state on Thursday released the list of 12 companies that were granted large-scale cultivation licenses, out of a pool of 109 that applied. The awards come nearly a month after the state announced licenses for 11...

One of Canada's most prominent marijuana activists has taken aim at former police officers who have entered the country's fledgling cannabis industry, saying it was "hard to stomach" that those who spent years sending people to jail for pot offences are now poised to profit as the country moves...

A serial Coffee County marijuana grower is back in jail after his arrest Thursday four months after he cut off an ankle monitor and failed to appear for a court hearing on his most recent charge of manufacturing the drug, the county sheriff said. George Darryl Harper was arrested at his...

Portage intends to pursue medical marijuana ordinances involving facilities and zoning, with the specifics to be known by the end of December. At a more than three-hour special committee of the whole meeting Thursday, the Portage City Council viewed proposed ordinance amendment options and...