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Scott Murphy is from Maynard. He was in the Army for four years and served 15 months in Iraq in 2007. Kenneth MacIntosh is from Melrose. He was a combat medic in the Navy who served in Afghanistan from 2010 to 2011. His unit's mission was to find improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Murphy and...

Utah Senate passed two bills through committees Thursday that could legalize marijuana. Senate Bill 89 and Senate Bill 73 deal with different aspects of legalization. Several Utahns told stories of how they suffer with medical conditions that have been seriously helped by medial pot. Senate...

California has found its czar for medical marijuana. On Thursday, Gov. Jerry Brown announced the appointment of Lori Ajax, currently the chief deputy director of the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, to the newly-created post overseeing the Bureau of Medical Marijuana...

A proposal to allow terminally ill patients in Florida to use medical marijuana is headed to the Senate floor. Sen. Rob Bradley's measure, which passed the Fiscal Policy Committee on Thursday, has gone back to its original intent – allowing those with terminal conditions to use nonsmokable...

El Paso County commissioners say medical marijuana businesses that use green crosses in their signage will have to find a new way to advertise. The commissioners voted to ban green crosses from the front of medical marijuana businesses. The county said there was some concern that out-of-town...

A survey is circulating asking Cherokee residents what they think of medical marijuana. A group called Common Sense Cannabis is collecting information after tribal leadership said no to studying the pros and cons of personal, industrial, and medical marijuana on the reservation. Chief...

Although World Cancer Day was commemorated yesterday, South Africa's chance of using medical marijuana still lingers. The Medical Innovation Bill was tabled in Parliament in 2014 by late IFP MP Mario Ambrosini — who took his life as a result of suffering from lung cancer. According to IFP MP...

There is a new push to legalize medical marijuana in the South Carolina Statehouse, and leading that charge is a Lowcountry lawmaker. In 2014, South Carolina legalized the use of CBD oil. Two bills this legislative session focus on THC, a chemical doctors say can be used as an alternative to...

With less than five months until medical marijuana dispensaries are up and running, Hawaii lawmakers are considering a bill to create an oversight committee for the future industry. Sixteen years after Hawaii became the first state to legalize medical marijuana, the state is months away from...

Gov. Chris Christie on Wednesday defended New Jersey's strict medical marijuana program and shrugged off a suggestion that a Scotch Plains family had no choice but to relocate to Colorado so their ailing daughter could have easier access to edible cannabis products. "Vivian Wilson's family...

Democratic presidential contender former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fielded a question from a medical marijuana patient during Wednesday night's New Hampshire town hall, hosted by CNN, and her response was...a little lackluster. Clinton said that marijuana should be rescheduled from a...

George Hendrickson and his family were counting on South Dakota voters to legalize medical cannabis in November. So the news Wednesday that a ballot measure they supported failed to collect enough valid signatures to make it onto the ballot came as a blow. Hendrickson's 3-year-old Eliyah...

Advocates of medical marijuana scored another small victory this week in Richmond. A Senate committee voted to allow cancer patients to use an oil derived from the cannabis plant - a medication that can already be used, legally, in patients with epilepsy. Studies suggest cannabidiol may...

The ballot measure to legalize medical marijuana in South Dakota has been thrown out, but supporters aren't giving up yet.. The Secretary of States' Office says that the initiated measure was rejected because it did not meet the required number of signatures to be placed on the ballot. A random...

"Just trying to as cultivators come out of the darkness and into the light," said Watsonville resident Nick Bryan. Bryan is one of many applying to cultivate medical marijuana in Watsonville. The city recently passed an ordinance allowing grows in industrial areas of town. "It's been a long...

Facing a quickly approaching state deadline to exert local control on medical marijuana regulations, the City Council this week explicitly outlawed cultivation and other uses. The city already has a ban on dispensaries, but on Tuesday added cultivation, processing, delivery and mobile...

We are certainly not the first to surmise that if medical marijuana were called by another name – perhaps something more English and less Spanish – that there would not be such angst over it being prescribed. It's a drug, no more and no less. It's not a cure-all, and like other drugs, it can...

"The Oregon Health Authority is proposing to destroy the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program by over-regulation that will make criminals out of thousands of patients and the growers who provide for them." - John Sajo Were Oregon voters boondoggled when they "legalized" marijuana? Some say "Yes"...

Dear Governor Deal: When I began growing my medical marijuana plant last month as a political statement about Georgia's need to make cannabis oil available for medical use, I had no idea the kind of nerve it would hit. Dozens of people from all across Georgia have contacted me in support of...

A ban on medical marijuana cultivation, along with dispensaries and commercial delivery of the drug, won City Council approval Tuesday after speakers opposed the measure they said they would make them criminals. "Your panic is not my emergency," Michael Kimmel told council members. Medical...