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Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Saturday that he will sign legislation adding post-traumatic stress disorder to the list of eligible conditions in the state's medical marijuana program. "Many of our veterans are suffering from PTSD and the medical community has determined that (medical...

On probation for a bloody 1999 gang murder, Miguel Valdes takes a host of pills to keep his longtime schizophrenia in check. Now, he can also legally use another medicine – marijuana, a drug that normally would get a convicted killer locked up for violating probation. A Miami judge this...

The screech of a chair across the floor of a fast-food restaurant made Tom Mertz instinctively jerk his head toward the noise. He felt the pain immediately in his neck. And when he drives, his right leg throbs unless he keeps rubbing it. Everything hurts. At 68, Mertz, who served...

The federal government's proposed plan to impose an excise tax on medical marijuana as well as recreational cannabis has left patient advocate groups and Canadian licensed cannabis producers fuming. Canadians for Fair Access to Medical Marijuana (CFAMM) and the Arthritis Society said in a...

It's Veterans Day. Banks are closed. People don't receive their mail. And military veterans have myriad options to eat free at restaurants as a thank you for their service. But the American Legion, a major organization of 2.4 million veterans, wants those who served to have access to something...

After a four-year wait to provide medical cannabis to patients, the drug could be available to Marylanders as early as this month, according to industry stakeholders. "I think we could see product in November, with increase in December and a steady flow from all operators in the new year,"...

Americans may soon be able to get medical marijuana from an unlikely drug dealer: Israel. Bloomberg reported Thursday that 2018 could be a big year for the country's quest to become a global pot provider. Israel's government is on track to pass regulations that would allow growers to export...

Always a hot topic, the prospect of legalizing marijuana in Indiana -- whether for medical use or to curb opioid addictions -- has picked up steam, whether on one side or another. Here are just a few local organizations or prominent Indiana figures who have recently weighed in on the state...

The man who presided over the turbulent launch of Maryland's medical marijuana industry resigned Thursday. Patrick Jameson, a former state trooper who took over as executive director of the Medical Cannabis Commission in April 2016, will stay in his job until the end of the month. Jameson...

Alexis Bortell is hardly the first child whose family moved to Colorado for access to medical marijuana. But the 12-year-old is the first Colorado kid to sue U.S. Attorney Jeff Sessions over the nation's official marijuana policy. "As the seizures got worse, we had to move to Colorado to...

When Asi Naim, a severely autistic Israeli boy, started smacking his head against the wall and hurting himself in other ways, his parents tried every kind of psychiatric drug to calm him. Nothing worked. "He was so totally out of it," said his mother, Ricky Naim Blumenfeld. "It was scary."...

Facing uncertainty amongst itself and from regulation at the state level, Kalamazoo Township held off on a decision to allow medical marijuana facilities to open. New state laws regulating five types of medical marijuana facilities licenses prompted communities across Michigan to decide how...

More than 4,000 people have registered with the state to try to get medical marijuana for themselves or a loved one, Gov. Tom Wolf announced Wednesday. The state just launched the registry for prospective medical marijuana patients a week ago. "Since I signed medical marijuana into law in...

Medical marijuana is legal in New Jersey, but there's no shortage of complaints from those who say the program is too restrictive and expensive. When there's a market for a product but that product is hard to get, scammers will take advantage. That's what's happened recent cases in Florida...

Despite a strong anti-marijuana push from some city council members, a large contingent of churches and others – not to mention very convoluted and confusing language on the ballot – Detroiters voted in favor of the Detroit Medical Marijuana Facilities Ordinance and the accompanying Detroit...

Right-wingers: give your hands a break from all that wringing. The passing of medical marijuana legislation across the United States hasn’t resulted in more teens taking up cannabis use, a new study has found. “We found no evidence of an effect of [medical marijuana law] enactment in any...

Delaware's next medical marijuana dispensary could be opening in Milford, six months later than initially planned. New York-based Columbia Care now says it will not open central Delaware's first dispensary until at least next spring — marking the latest delay to roll out a statewide medical...

Indiana's county prosecutors remain vehemently opposed to any form of marijuana legalization and insist the plant "is not medicine" amid a push by a conservative state lawmaker to have it recognized as such. The Association of Indiana Prosecuting Attorneys argues any type of marijuana...

More than 80 percent of veterans support legalizing the medicinal use of marijuana and would want to use it as a potential treatment option, according to a national survey released Thursday by the American Legion. The survey also showed 92 percent of veteran households support research into...

On Monday night, City Council - concerned about a potential increase in crime - unanimously passed an ordinance that will ban the growing, processing and selling of medical marijuana in town. Council passed the ordinance 11 days before a medical marijuana moratorium, which temporarily banned...