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With members pledging to be open-minded and willing to learn, the new House Medicinal Marijuana Task Force met briefly for the first time Thursday. The 15-member panel will start taking testimony from the public at its hearing on Feb. 11. Testimony generally will be taken in the order that...

Governor David Ige signed Act 214 in July 2015 that laid down the framework for the first medical marijuana dispensary program in Hawai'i. A permitting application process followed the signature and was opened in mid-January for prospective applicants interested in obtaining a permit to...

City Council passes temporary ordinance allowing indoor cultivation of marijuana for medical use only On Jan. 12, the Davis City Council unanimously passed a local ordinance allowing patients who rely on medical marijuana as treatment to cultivate up to 50 square feet in their homes...

The Simi Valley City Council has reversed course and now will join most other cities in Ventura County in banning personal cultivation of medical marijuana. The council introduced an ordinance Jan. 11 that called for allowing personal cultivation by qualified patients. Under California...

The Arlington Board of Health will hold a public hearing Wednesday, Feb. 3 at 5:30 p.m. to discuss a proposal to regulate the cultivation and sale of medical marijuana in town. The public will have a chance to provide written or oral testimony during the meeting, which will be held at the Senior...

The Arlington Board of Health will hold a public hearing Wednesday, Feb. 3 at 5:30 p.m. to discuss a proposal to regulate the cultivation and sale of medical marijuana in town. The public will have a chance to provide written or oral testimony during the meeting, which will be held at the Senior...

State lawmakers will hold several meetings early this year, including one this Saturday at Cleveland State University, to learn more about medical marijuana and where Ohioans stand on the issue. Here's a schedule of the meetings and information about how you can share your thoughts and...

State lawmakers will hold several meetings early this year, including one this Saturday at Cleveland State University, to learn more about medical marijuana and where Ohioans stand on the issue. Here's a schedule of the meetings and information about how you can share your thoughts and...

Patients who are registered to use medicinal cannabis in compliance with state law are often over the age of 40, according to a demographic assessment published online ahead of print in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence. An investigator with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public...

The race is on for Hawaii medical marijuana dispensary licenses. The 50th state has had a medical marijuana program for 15 years and was the first state to legalize it through the legislative process back in 2000. The law only allowed for patients to grow their own, but that was changed last...

Bears legend Jim McMahon says medical marijuana got him off a heavy prescription pill habit. "I'm old-fashioned. I like to put it in my pipe and smoke it," McMahon said. McMahon was in town this week for the 30th anniversary of the 1985 Super Bowl win. In an exclusive television interview...

The chairman of a task force charged with exploring medical marijuana legalization in Ohio is emphasizing that the panel's process will be fair and open. The task force met briefly for the first time Thursday. It's led by Republican Rep. Kirk Schuring of Canton and includes other Ohio House...

The Pennsylvania Medical Society (PAMED), one of the largest lobbying groups in the state, has issued yet another press release about medical marijuana. This time, they make a special appeal to the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to reclassify and research cannabis. What they are...

Winslow, Waterville and Vassalboro schools are enacting policies to allow students to use medical marijuana in school as districts across the state move to comply with a state law passed last year that allows the practice. The Winslow School Board on Monday voted to approve a policy that...

Puerto Rico's Health Department has adopted a regulation that will allow for the cultivation, manufacturing and distribution of medical marijuana in the U.S. territory. Officials say the substance can be used in forms including pills, creams, patches and oral drops. Authorities stress that...

A new report catalogs the highs (and lows) of America's medical cannabis process Medicinal marijuana, man. Eighty five percent of the U.S. population, in 23 different states, should technically have the option to access the healing herb safely and legally. But since it's a relatively new...

Once a month, Jody Shimpach gets in her car and makes the 40-mile drive to Rochester to buy medical marijuana to help treat her husband, Michael's, multiple sclerosis. Shimpach, of Owatonna, said medical marijuana has vastly improved her husband's quality of life, helping to ease his pain and...

Six months into Minnesota's medical cannabis program, a Golden Valley four year old is running up and down stairs, climbing over furniture, writing on walls, and running through the aisles of Target, toddler milestones her parents never thought possible. "We jokingly call them "inchstones", but...

Twenty-two body bags were sprawled out in front of the Abraham Lincoln statue at the Illinois State Capitol Building on Wednesday. The body bags represented the estimated number of veterans who commit suicide everyday, according to the United States Department of Veteran Affairs; Medical...

Its users say it's a life-saver. But at a VA Hospital, doctors can't talk about it. In Nevada, 22 other states and the District of Columbia, medical marijuana is legal. Yet, because marijuana remains illegal in the eyes of the federal government, the VA, as a federal agency, can't talk about...