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An Alstead woman who successfully fought to get a medical marijuana ID card in New Hampshire before state dispensaries opened has died. Linda Horan, 64, sought medical marijuana to help relieve the pain and nausea that she experienced from stage 4 lung cancer. Horan sued New Hampshire to...

Florida has a love/hate relationship with marijuana. You may not know it, but Florida has a very limited medical marijuana program that its legislature adopted in 2014 and that's been entangled in legal challenges almost from its inception. In the same year, Florida also tried passing a medical...

Proponents of medical marijuana in Florida are trying again to gain the favor of the Floridian people this November as they work to get a medical marijuana constitutional amendment passed in the sunshine state. This is the second time organizers have attempted to pass the measure in Florida...

Business has been good for the first two months at Joliet's medical marijuana dispensary. "There have been lines [some days]. It's been a constant stream of people," owner Robert Livas said. "But what's struck me more is how tremendously grateful these people are to find relief at what they're...

Assemblyman Richard Gottfried has introduced legislation that would double the number of medical marijuana manufacturers and dispensaries in the state in the hopes of giving more people better access to the drug. The legislation, introduced Friday, would enable the state health commissioner...

Last spring, state Rep. Allen Peake, a Macon Republican, was riding high on momentum from the passage of his medical marijuana bill. He almost became Georgia's House majority leader back in May. When he fell just short, Peake received a nice consolation prize: Gov. Nathan Deal named him one of...

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand wants the Department of Veterans Affairs to allow its doctors to discuss medical marijuana with patients in states where medical marijuana is legal. Gillibrand held a news conference at her Manhattan office Sunday to urge a change in the current VA policy. The...

A market research company is growing pessimistic about Illinois medical marijuana, telling investors that retail sales could reach just $15.6 million in 2016. California-based ArcView Market Research released its projections Monday, February 1, 2016, exclusively to The Associated Press. The...

A Polish rapper-turned-politician on Monday presented a draft bill on legalising medical marijuana in an EU nation where two-thirds of people back the idea. "This draft crowns everything I've said over the years, especially during the election campaign," said MP Piotr Liroy-Marzec, better known...

On January 6, 2016, the Commissioner of Health of the State of New York certified that the medical marijuana program established by New York's Compassionate Care Act could be implemented in accordance with public health and safety interests. The next day, the first dispensaries offering medical...

Elko is extending its ban on medical marijuana shops despite comments from residents who want it lifted. Elko Daily Free Press reporter Marianne McKown says most people who attended the meeting last week spoke in favor of the dispensaries. "Pretty much everybody who got up said that they...

Gov. Bruce Rauner has chosen to put politics before patients. By having the Illinois Department of Public Health deny the eight conditions that the Medical Cannabis Advisory Board approved to be added to the list of debilitating conditions for the Medical Cannabis Pilot Program, this...

Disappointing news for medical cannabis patients was announced Friday. In September of 2015 Governor Bruce Rauner declined to add new medical conditions to the approved list. Last Friday was more rejection. The impact felt right here in Central Illinois. Thomas Wolfe is a 25-year-old...

A group of New Mexico medical cannabis producers are pushing back against the state's strict new testing requirements they say will force them to discard up to a quarter of their medication. Growers claim that the new rules, which require private labs to test their dried flowers and any...

In March, Croatian pharmacies are expected to finally start selling capsules of cannabis oil. The final price for end customers has not yet been defined, and it will depend on pharmacy profit margins, but it will certainly be much lower than the price on the illegal market. According to sources...

Shasta County Supervisors will consider on Tuesday a zoning amendment to prohibit medical marijuana delivery services. Along with the amendment to ban delivery services from operating in unincorporated areas of the county, supervisors will also consider adopting a zoning permit system for...

An Atkinson couple accused of cultivating and possessing more than seven pounds of marijuana requested a continuance in their court case Friday, after being issued a medical marijuana card earlier in the week. Robert Zdrada, 65, and wife Valerie, 60, were arrested in October after police...

The Rauner administration's decision not to expand the list of conditions eligible for medical marijuana in Illinois is drawing criticism from military veterans, including a frequent visitor to KMOX's "Overnight America" show. Vietnam War veteran Lon Hodge of Chicago — who travels around the...

California lawmakers are now in rush to correct some serious issues regarding the proposed Marijuana Law. The legislation is said to stabilize the state's medical marijuana industry and reports elicited reactions from recreational users. State of California is constructing a new medical...

California's Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act has been in effect for a month now, but the state's Department of Public Health hasn't yet published or implemented food safety standards for so-called edibles. However, the Act didn't give the department a deadline. It simply states...