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Puerto Rico's fledgling legal marijuana industry is struggling to recover as the devastation delivered by Hurricane Maria may have cost the island trade millions of dollars in damage. Its government legalized medical marijuana at the end of December, and the American territory had only just...

Melissa Etheridge has become a passionate advocate for medical marijuana. The Kansas native used it when she had breast cancer and in recent days loaned her famous voice to the campaign to legalize it in Missouri. Recreational pot is legal in California, where she lives. But the reality that...

Estero might ban medical marijuana dispensaries. On Tuesday, the Village Planning and Zoning Board is expected to review an ordinance that would prevent the dispensing or cultivation of medical marijuana within Estero's boundaries. Under the draft ordinance, the village would accept or...

Many Canadians can hardly wait for the day that the recreational use of marijuana becomes legal. As a medical doctor, I'm far less enthusiastic. I worry about two things: the experimental nature of marijuana in medical practice, and the public health consequences of legalized marijuana...

Hospitals, nursing homes and residences for disabled New Yorkers are among facilities that could obtain medical marijuana for their patients and residents under emergency regulations issued a week ago by the state Health Department. The facilities would be deemed "caregivers" under the state...

Gov. Rick Scott this summer signed into law a bill that implemented the Florida Medical Marijuana Legalization Initiative, known as Amendment 2, which mandated an expansion of the state's medical cannabis program. One requirement of that was the creation of a panel to review all physician...

Would-be medical marijuana users in Florida say they're waiting as long as three months to get state-issued cards they need to get the drug. The state agency that gives out the cards is hiring more workers to cut down on wait times. Florida's Office of Medical Marijuana Use says it should...

How ironic is it that conservatives who routinely criticize the federal government's allegedly heavy-handed intrusions into state and local affairs seem to have no problem with such interventions when the overreach happens to advance policies dear to their own hearts? This year we've seen a...

The head of West Virginia's Bureau of Public Health hopes to have population surveys finalized to determine patient and physician interest in medical cannabis out for delivery within the next week. Dr. Rahul Gupta, commissioner of the Bureau for Public Health and state health officer, said...

As Terrance Alan sees it, he’s come out of the closet twice. The first time was when he came out as a gay man. Now he’s come out as a cannabis user. “I don’t think people have that opportunity in their lives very often,” the 64-year-old Alan says, “to come out of two closets, where what they...

With the Opioid Epidemic taking over America, will Medical Marijuana dispensaries begin to replace pharmacies in providing adequate pain medication? It is seeming like more of a possibility, as scientists are allocating more time and money to study marijuana's effects on pain, dispensaries are...

The state's fourth medical marijuana dispensary is now open. Noa Botanicals opened to the public Wednesday after receiving final approval from the state Department of Health. The retail center is located on Young Street, and is the second dispensary to open on Oahu. "We will have four...

Local parents made the compelling case Tuesday to expand the state's medical marijuana program. The most dramatic testimony at the State Office Building came from parents who had children with autism. They said they had been able to get medical cannabis for other symptoms — such as seizures –...

When AgriMed CEO Sterling Crockett first scouted a patch of land outside of Carmichaels, Greene County, last year as a possible location to build a medical cannabis facility, "there was just nothing," he said. "But you could visualize the potential." That vision led to AgriMed getting one of...

Maine has named a new director of its medical marijuana program, a position that had been vacant for a year. Craig S. Patterson, a former management analyst in the state Department of Health and Human Services, has filled the position that was last held by Marietta D'Agostino, who left the...

As Louisiana's medical marijuana program edges closer to kickoff, only two doctors in the state have applied for permission to dispense the drug, raising questions about whether patients struggling with chronic pain and suffering will gain access to the treatment they lobbied so hard to get...

The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission is expected to discuss when they will issue cultivation and dispensary licenses. The commission meets Monday evening and will go over how many applications they have received, those eligible for merit scoring and the number of dispensary applications...

Ordinances that would allow medical marijuana facilities in Kingsley went through weeks of review but village officials remain reluctant to vote on the issue. Village board members met Monday night and continued reviewing a draft police power ordinance that would allow medical marijuana...

Rules for medical marijuana businesses in Niles could possibly scuttle the proposal for a dispensary at the historic former post office downtown. That and other details emerged Monday night as city council members got their first look at two proposed ordinances. One spells out state and...

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