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On Tuesday, the Government of Canada announced the beginning of a consultation process to implement regulations pertaining to the country’s impending legalization of marijuana. But buried deep in the government-released consultation paper were some changes to the medical cannabis program that...

The medical school at the University of Hawaii held its first seminar on medical marijuana with a panel of doctors and lawyers discussing the drug and the regulations governing its use. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports the panel shared highlights of research on the topic to an audience...

As medical marijuana legalization slowly moves forward in North Dakota, some national companies are already taking a look at working with dispensaries. One such outfit hopes to be the "Amazon of Cannabis," said owner and founder Socrates Rosenfeld, an Army veteran who flew and commanded a...

Janice Michalski lives in pain. "Being on the opioids, right now the only way is to go up to keep the pain away," claims Michalski. Michalski knows and worries about the risk of increasing her dosage. So does Governor Rick Scott. "Opioid abuse has taken the lives of too many...

Ohio has received 370 applications for license to dispense medical marijuana, including dozens in the Dayton area. The state's list will be narrowed to 60 and 15 will be licensed for southwest Ohio The next step will be to narrow the list to the 60 that will be licensed to sell medical...

Businesses will have to pay an extra fee be in the medical marijuana business within Newark. Monday night Newark City Council approved requiring any medical marijuana cultivator, processor or dispensary within the city of Newark to have a license from the city and pay a $500 fee each January...

In just a few weeks, medical marijuana will legally be sold in Texas. The plants are nearly finished growing in south-central Texas, which means workers will soon harvest and cultivate them, drying them out and preparing to extract low-level cannibidiol. Once that medicine is in a liquid...

PurePenn CEO Gabe Perlow says construction of the group’s 21,000-square-foot medical marijuana facility on a former McKeesport mill site was going smoothly this fall — that is, until they started excavating 6 feet of ground for the foundation. “Below 3 feet, we started hitting solid concrete,”...

Tears streamed down Claudia Jendron's face this year as her doctor patted her hand and told her, after eight years of failed pain treatments for her spinal fusion-gone-wrong, "This is going to work, Claudia." She was talking about medical marijuana. For "eight years of hell," Jendron tried...

For the first time in years, the proposed law that would allow the use of marijuana extracts for medicinal purposes is being discussed by lawmakers in plenary. The House of Representatives started tackling the Compassionate Medical Cannabis Bill of Isabela Rep. Rodolfo Albano III on Wednesday...

A third-party contract to produce the state's medical marijuana identification cards was awarded to a company in Jacksonville this week following a noticeable influx of registered patients over the past eight months. State Surgeon General Celeste Philip announced in a memo last week the...

The push to legalize medical marijuana in Indiana appears to be gaining a certain strength. Numerous veterans organizations, for example, have publicly pleaded with lawmakers to help treat veterans with issues like PTSD, chronic pain and traumatic brain injuries. "We're not talking about...

Ohio police departments are learning how to interpret the law and medical marijuana in the new year. So they are turning to experts from Colorado for direction on arrests, cases and how to handle the drug in the field. Blue Ash Police Chief Paul Hartinger said medical marijuana presents a...

When it comes to weighing the options for regulating medical marijuana through the law passed this year, Dunedin city commissioners declared local governments face a "conundrum" and "a false dilemma." They said they would welcome a dispensary in the city and want residents to have it as an...

Another potential marijuana grower hoping to cash in on Florida's "green rush" is suing the state, this time accusing health officials of unconstitutionally dragging their feet by failing to grant new pot licenses. The plaintiffs in the latest challenge include Bill's Nursery, Inc., a...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions' apparent plans to prosecute medical marijuana distributors in states that have legalized it are a waste of time, according to former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who said the U.S. had bigger priorities to focus on. "With respect to everything else going...

In a historic moment for Townsville a Defense veteran has been dispensed medical cannabis to medicate post-traumatic stress syndrome for the first time. Lee Donnollan will be given the medication for the first time in Townsville under the special access scheme which gives patients access to...

In January 2017, at the Virginia General Assembly, Republican state Sen. Jill Vogel submitted medical marijuana bill SB 1298 to the Senate and House. The bill listed 12 conditions that would benefit from cannabidiol or THC-A oil treatment: cancer, glaucoma, HIV, AIDS, Hepatitis C...

Columbia Township would be happy to have a medical marijuana dispensary operate in its community. Administrator C. Michael Lemon said the Columbia Township Board of Trustees passed a resolution Nov. 14 that clears the way for a medical marijuana dispensary to open in the township. The...

Sorry, Milford. Delaware's next medical marijuana dispensary will be located in Smyrna. New York-based Columbia Care has confirmed plans to open its future retail location in Kent County's northern-most town — days after the site was leaked on Facebook by a patient advocacy group. "It's...