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A medical marijuana operator is demanding that the Florida Department of Health develop a regulation so vendors can begin processing and selling edible marijuana products to patients. In a petition filed Friday, Surterra Florida asked health officials to start a rule-making process involving...

A Burlington company is scouting a location near downtown Middlebury for operation of a medical marijuana dispensary. The company in question is the Champlain Valley Dispensary (CVD), which currently supplies around 3,000 qualifying patients with medical marijuana – under strict state...

Say good-bye to consuming edibles in the shape of animals or fruit, Colorado. The state's ban on human, animal or fruit-shaped marijuana edibles went into effect on Sunday, Oct. 1. The move by the state was done "to increase awareness of marijuana potency and make products less appealing...

Tom Beller knows the risks he faces while developing a medical marijuana facility he hopes will grow plants to supply patients across the state. Beller continues construction on one of three Kalkaska properties where village planning commissioners on Sept. 12 approved site plans for proposed...

The first medical marijuana seminar in the state took place at the Waterfront Hotel in Morgantown Saturday. The West Virginia Medical Cannabis society hosted the public event to inform people about the medical marijuana industry. The seminar comes after governor Jim Justice signed a medical...

The Senate is not inclined to pass a medical marijuana bill, according to Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III. Sotto said on Sunday that the Senate had no medical marijuana bill. He said that while newspapers reported that a medical marijuana bill had cleared the health committee of...

Scott Cooksey gives his son Timothy 18 pills a day. The 19-year-old, who lives in Terre Haute with his family, has intractable epilepsy and Rubenstein Taybi Syndrome. The former causes Timothy to have seizures that cannot be controlled by medication, and he has a nerve stimulator in his...

While the state's highly-regulated medical marijuana program is expanding, now with delivery options, more dispensary locations coming, more practitioners to certify patients, and more ailments approved for treatment, patients are still saddled with a high-priced product, payable only with cash...

The Ohio Medical Marijuana Control Program on Friday released 372 pages of information on the 180 entities applying for grower licenses, including locations of where they want to put their pot farms. At least 24 operations are proposed for the Miami Valley, including six in Dayton, three in...

Health officials won't be able to meet a legislatively mandated Tuesday deadline to hand out five new medical-marijuana licenses, the head of the state's Office of Medical Marijuana Use said Friday. Christian Bax, the marijuana office's executive director, blamed the delay on Hurricane Irma...

It's the law of the land, but what's next when it comes to medical marijuana? That was the topic of discussion Thursday in West Palm Beach in a forum organized by state lawmakers. Education was the main goal of the forum, hosted by the group Minorities for Medical Marijuana. "African...

The state is opening up the medical marijuana business to big-time grow operations, according to an advisory released Thursday. When the Legislature passed medical marijuana bills last year, it created three classes of licenses for growers: Class A - up to 500 plants; Class B - up to 1,000...

UK drug dealers are now giving their customers 'medical advice' and prescribing different cannabis strains for various ailments. Cannabis dealers and growers are trying to gain an edge on their competition by copying sophisticated marketing methods of American medical cannabis companies...

Pennsylvania took another step toward getting ready to hang the "Open for Business" sign on its Medical Marijuana Program by approving the first two labs that will ensure the medication is safe for patients and correctly labeled. ACT Laboratories Inc.of Pennsylvania and Keystone State Testing...

Smithfield can't restrict the rights of state-licensed medical cannabis growers through its zoning ordinance, said Superior Court Judge Richard Licht in putting a temporary injunction on the town's new zoning ordinance that restricted caregivers from 12 to 2 plants, among other reductions in...

Officials in Gibsonburg and Oak Harbor originally thought they would know this month if companies would be getting state medical marijuana cultivation licenses to build new facilities in those villages. Instead, the two villages will have to wait a little while longer to see if their...

Advocates of medical marijuana are in high spirits after the health committee of the House of Representatives endorsed a bill allowing the use of cannabis to treat chronic or debilitating health conditions. The House panel on Monday unanimously approved the committee draft report on the...

Today, the PA Medicinal Cannabis Education Tour will be taking place a few miles off of Penn State campus, at State College's Celebration Hall. Attendees and healthcare professionals will learn about the underlying science pertaining to the pharmacologic and therapeutic options associated...

Medical marijuana dispensaries would be allowed to stay open while the state decides who will get a license for the lucrative cannabis business, under a pair of bills introduced this week in the state Legislature. Sen. David Knezek, D-Dearborn Heights, and Rep. Yousef Rabhi, D-Ann Arbor, will...

Winners of last June's medical marijuana permits plan a Cannabis Program Kick-off gala Wednesday night at the Andy Warhol Museum on the North Side. It should be a remarkable gathering of sorts, considering the attendees soon will be competing for shares in a medical marijuana market of...