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Three companies that got state approval last month to produce medical marijuana in Orange and Ulster counties face a legal hurdle as they develop their plans: a lawsuit by five existing medical-marijuana businesses that aims to stop the expansion of their fledgling industry. The newly...

Just wanted to introduce myself as suggested. I started using medical cannabis since I was a teenager, replacing 8 years of forced Ritalin and tobacco use, and honestly, I went from a very troubled special ed kid to an even-keeled successful adult when I started smoking cannabis. Marriage...

Approving a vendor is the last major hurdle to start the process of producing the state's cannabis. The university has not yet chosen a location for the secure indoor growing facility, which will be funded through third-party donors. Southern University is one step closer to getting medical...

The long debate about medical marijuana played out again Thursday on Tennessee's Capitol Hill as skepticism was mixed with passionate support. It came at the first meeting of the task force appointed by the two legislative speakers to look into the issue. Medical Cannabis Task Force Chair...

A new medical marijuana facility licensed by the state will be able to grow, process and sell medical marijuana at the same location, the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs announced on Thursday. The legislature last year passed legislation to legalize and regulate medical...

Ever so slowly, medical marijuana retail outlets are opening around South Florida. Curaleaf, the new brand for Costa Farms' cannabis operation, launched its first stand-alone store Thursday in the Dadeland area. The store at 9002 South Dadeland Blvd., Unit 1 is the second metropolitan-area...

I didn’t go to medical school to decide who can be certified to have medical marijuana. Yet every Thursday morning, I see patients in a rented space because if I don’t provide this service, these patients will have few other options. In January of 2016 when medical marijuana first became...

The city of Riverside will vote Thursday whether to sell three acres of land at the Center of Flight, near the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, to the Farms of Riverside, LLC, according to Councilman Steve Fullenkamp. The parties are negotiating a site that will ensure the cultivation...

Kalamazoo will postpone a decision on how it plans to react to new state laws governing medical marijuana facilities. Monday, City Attorney Clyde Robinson relayed news to the City Commission that the state's process for licensing medical marijuana facilities will not be ready by Dec. 15. That...

The Bakersfield City Council will discuss the first reading of the commercial cannabis ordinance during the Wednesday night meeting. Over the last several years, California has seen a move towards legalizing the sale of adult-use cannabis throughout the State through the adoption of the...

Cannabis growers for medical use will receive support, grants, water quotas, and training. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is classifying cannabis growing as a farming sector, thereby entitling the growers to support, grants, water quotas, and training in crop growing...

Aurora Cannabis' first shipment of Alberta-grown medical marijuana has been shipped to Germany to help offset "a significant shortage of supply" in the European powerhouse, the company announced Tuesday. The company shipped 50 kilograms of dried cannabis flower from its central Alberta...

Prior to passage of Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana law, politicians and advocates spoke with compassion about how it would provide alternative care to the sick and infirm. Now altruism could be taking a backseat to capitalism. As the Heath Department tries to get the industry started...

Under the laws of 29 states and Washington, D.C., patients seeking medical marijuana must get official recommendations from doctors. But a local lawmaker in the nation's capital is looking to change that. Under the Medical Marijuana Improvement Amendment Act of 2017, patients would be allowed...

A line of a few people prior to Trulieve's downtown Bradenton medical marijuana store opening on Tuesday swelled quickly as dozens of patients filled to capacity the newly remodeled building at 1103 14th St. W. Miguel Couvertier, an Air Force veteran, waited patiently for his name to be...

Nine years after Michigan voters approved medical marijuana, government officials and patients don't know which pot shops will be open or closed in coming months because the laws are so confusing. How confusing? On the same day last week when the state announced that existing medical...

Although it's becoming more commonplace, medical marijuana is rarely discussed in U.S. medical schools, a new study shows. "Medical education needs to catch up to marijuana legislation," said senior author Dr. Laura Jean Bierut, a professor of psychiatry at Washington University School of...

Opponents of legalizing marijuana have long claimed that it is a "gateway drug" that leads to use of other substances. But one of the country's most famous physicians says the opposite might be true. "The real story is the hypocrisy around medical marijuana," Mehmet Oz -- better known as Dr...

The National Football League may be warming to the idea that treating injured players with medical cannabis is preferable to the alternative: opiate painkillers. That's according to a story published in the Washington Post in July. The Post reported that the NFL sent a letter to the NFL Players...

Maui based event production company Alpha Agency will host the first annual Maui Cannabis Conference on Saturday and Sunday, January 6 and 7, 2018, at the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort & Spa in Kā'anapali. The conference will promote cannabis awareness and education regarding the health benefits...