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The clock is ticking for the Illinois medical marijuana program. A low number of approved patients could force some marijuana businesses to close just as the program is getting underway. The issue is that the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) has only approved a small amount of...

People around the State Capitol last year knew them simply as "the moms." The cadre of mothers, often with chronically sick children in tow, made emotional and compelling pleas for a bill legalizing medical marijuana in Nebraska. It was an impressive citizens campaign by a group formally...

Christine Bongiorno, Director of Health and Human Services, announces that the Board of Health will hold a public hearing next week to discuss a proposal to regulate the cultivation and sale of medical marijuana in town. The community is invited and encouraged to attend. The hearing will be...

Attorney John Morgan has had 14 months to reflect on what went wrong with his first push to get a medical marijuana bill passed by Florida voters. "I think my chances are better than last time," Morgan said. "Last time I lost by less than 2 percent." He needed 60 percent, slightly more...

Georgia residents made their case Monday to a committee at the Capitol to legalize the cultivation of medical marijuana. Backers say it's the logical followup to another medical marijuana bill that passed the General Assembly last year. The hearing drew an overflow crowd — mostly from...

Columbia Care's medical marijuana facility is set to open on Route 3, in Plattsburgh, but officials said marijuana won't be produced at the North Country location. The facility is being operated by Columbia Care, one of five registered organizations operating medical marijuana facilities in...

Supporters of legalizing medical marijuana testified at the Georgia Capitol today. One of those testimonies came from Troup County father Dale Jackson. Medical marijuana is legal in Georgia — but only for the some 500 citizens who are able signed up. But getting access to that medical...

The Utah Legislature is considering a push for medical marijuana in 2016. A new bill may open the doors for edible marijuana products containing THC, though smoking marijuana would remain illegal. This bill, sponsored by Sen. Mark Madsen, R-Saratoga Springs, has garnered support from Salt Lake...

Two Sonoma County supervisors will hear public comment this evening at a town hall discussion of medical marijuana regulation in the unincorporated areas of the county. The Medical Marijuana Ad Hoc Committee, comprised of Supervisors Susan Gorin and Efren Carrillo, will hear feedback on the...

Senators Kenny Yuko (D-Richmond Heights) and Dave Burke (R-Marysville) will host the first stop on their medical marijuana listening tour Saturday, Jan. 30 at Cleveland State University. Yuko sat down with newsnet5.com to explain the format of the town hall-style meeting, which will begin at...

The largest health fund Clalit Health Services, has instructed its doctors not to prescribe medical cannabis to patients when its use becomes fully regulated and pharmacies will be able to fill their prescriptions. The other three health funds reportedly agree that doctors' prescribing...

With a new Florida Senate Bill, the state may give patients greater access to medical marijuana. To provide a safe, regulated system for medical marijuana disbursement in Florida, Sen. Rob Bradley, R-Fleming Island, discussed Senate Bill 460 at the Senate Fiscal Policy Committee meeting on...

Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich wants to suspend the cultivation, testing and sale of medical marijuana in L.A. County's unincorporated territory long enough for the county to evaluate the impacts of those activities on the public. Antonovich is asking his fellow supervisors Tuesday to...

Ohio's legislative leaders have a task force and are holding public meetings to study the possibility of allowing some sort of medical marijuana here. Regardless of what they do, a national group plans to put a medical marijuana plan before voters this fall. The Marijuana Policy Project has...

New York's Department of Health is sponsoring research on the use of a pharmaceutical-grade medical cannabis drug to treat children with severe epilepsy. The department announced the studies Wednesday. They'll be open to 100 children and young adults whose epilepsy has resisted other...

So that the title says medical marijuana will take effect in Puerto Rico on 28 this month! :cheer::high-five::bravo:

There is an ugly trend that exists in society today, and it is affecting all of us. Revenue from natural resources, industry, agriculture, and more, is increasingly being leveraged away from the average Canadian and into the bank accounts of the wealthiest among us. Our legislators must now...

It's been two weeks since the long-awaited medical marijuana program launched in New York state, but the wait still isn't over for many patients who have yet to receive their first dose. Lisa Valle's daughter, Maya, is one of 10 patients certified by the DENT Neurologic Institute so far to...

Ohioans have been mulling marijuana legalization since this time last year, but a medical marijuana amendment planned for this November by Marijuana Policy Project likely will now drive the debate. The D.C.-based organization has had a hand in crafting most state marijuana decriminalization...

A worrisome component of veteran post-traumatic stress disorder with chronic pain is the constant, ever-hovering specter of addiction and suicide among the veteran population. The suicide rate is reported to be as much as 22 a day. That may seem too high an estimate, but a suicide a day is 30 a...