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Medical marijuana is now legally growing right here in Texas. News 4 has also learned some of that medicine will be delivered straight to patients' homes by the end of the year. Halfway between San Antonio and Houston -- on a 10-acre parcel of land in the town of Schulenburg -- about a...

Avid shoppers wait until Cyber Monday to get the best online deals on everything from electronics to apparel during the holiday season. And now medical marijuana joins the roster of things for sale on this mega online shopping day. Vireo Health of New York ("Vireo"), one of five companies...

In compliance with the Compassionate Use Program, the first dispensary will soon open in Schulenburg, Texas. Knox Medical officials said the Department of Public Safety makes weekly inspections as they prepare to open. Founder and CEO of Knox Medical, Jose Hidalgo, said they chose...

Florida is moving forward with the outsourcing of medical marijuana identification cards despite a protest on how the contract was awarded, health officials said Monday. The Office of Medical Marijuana Use signed a contract on Monday with Veritec Solutions LLC, which it planned on awarding...

Three companies applied to sell medical marijuana in Sandusky County by Friday's statewide application deadline, the state's Pharmacy Board announced Monday. There were 370 permit applications filed for medical marijuana dispensaries throughout Ohio. The three Sandusky County applicants were...

In the latest step to establish a legal medical marijuana industry in Ohio, the state received 370 applications for dispensary licenses, including 50 from six area counties: 19 in Montgomery, 11 in Butler, 10 in Clark, five in Warren, four in Greene, one in Champaign. The next step will be to...

Malta's government has proposed allowing all doctors in the country to prescribe medical marijuana. The government published draft legislation on Monday that would loosen an existing regulation with so many restrictions that not a single Maltese had ever been treated legally with marijuana or...

There's a professional society for seemingly every kind of medical specialist, even cannabis clinicians. Or medical marijuana physicians. Or pot doctors, in street parlance. And just as there's a choice of what to call physicians who use the plant to treat everything from pain to multiple...

As a prominent Chicago surgeon, Dr. Charles Bush-Joseph sees them all too frequently: people who endure severe injuries or multiple surgeries, only to become addicted to prescription painkillers. One patient who pleaded for help was on such strong drugs already that Bush-Joseph knew he...

Investors in medical cannabis projects are focusing on Greece, where a warm, sunny climate and potentially favorable future legislation could help the government deliver on a promise to pull the country out of a seven-year economic crisis. Growers have expressed interest in pumping more than...

Medical marijuana advocates are responding to Gov. Eric Holcomb and other weed critics in Indiana by taking their fight to the public. On Friday morning, drivers heading east towards Indianapolis on I-70 may have noticed a new billboard above their heads, promoting marijuana as the solution...

Michigan medical marijuana facilities will pay a $6,000 one-time application fee to the state, according to an advisory bulletin released today by the state Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs. Medical marijuana facilities also are subject to a municipality fee of up to $5,000...

Greg Maki kept his comments short and sweet when he supported the creation of a new medical marijuana ordinance that would allow growers and provisioning centers to operate in Egelston Township. "All I have to say is, it's just weed," said Maki, 28, of Muskegon, during a public hearing before...

Marijuana's gonna be legal in Illinois. It's just a matter of when. That's according to state Sen. Heather Steans, who's been pushing a recreational weed bill at least since earlier this year. She hoped to get it passed by 2018, but said on Thursday that her timetable has shifted. "I don't...

CFAMM (Canadians for Fair Access to Medical Marijuana) are asking people to let the government know taxing medical cannabis is wrong. Join the #DontTaxMedicine campaign and make your voice heard TODAY. On November 10th, the Department of Finance announced a proposal to apply excise tax to both...

The Thousand Oaks City Council this week introduced an ordinance that will allow one medical marijuana retailer and one marijuana testing facility in an industrial-zoned part of town. The ordinance is scheduled to be adopted at the council's Nov. 28 meeting and will become effective 31 days...

After almost three years of attempting to bring medical marijuana to unincorporated Marin, the Board of Supervisors approved an ordinance that will allow for medical cannabis delivery-only retailers in a unanimous vote on Tuesday. At the same hearing, the board also repealed a previous...

Texas is weeks away from the first legal sale of medical marijuana. Two years after lawmakers legalized the drug for epilepsy patients, the state has licensed a company operating as Knox Medical to dispense the drug. CBS11 traveled to Winter Garden, Florida, where the company has already...

On the night of the 2012 presidential elections, the story of Barack Obama's re-election ran head-to-head with news of the groundbreaking legalization of recreational marijuana in Colorado. Memes abounded, most featuring a cloud of smoke over the city of Denver bearing the caption, "Meanwhile in...

Brenda Lutz ran a medical marijuana provisioning center in Jackson but shuttered it in late September after the Jackson Narcotics Enforcement Team asked her to close. Commercial marijuana establishments like Lutz's have been operating in a gray area since Michigan voters approved a medical...