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Mainers spent $23.6 million on medical marijuana from dispensaries last year, a 46 percent increase driven by multiple factors, including patients seeking alternatives to prescription painkillers and more doctors certifying people to use the drug, according to dispensary operators. Operators...

A major national player in the marijuana legalization movement plans to put an Ohio medical marijuana measure on the November ballot. Marijuana Policy Project, based in Washington D.C., plans to propose a constitutional amendment establishing a medical marijuana system similar to those in 23...

Legislation that would expand Georgia's medical marijuana program to include an in-state harvest and production system will get its first hearing next week. The House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee will meet from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Monday to consider House Bill 722, sponsored by Rep. Allen Peake...

Tuesday was a big day for marijuana news in Costa Rica. Medical marijuana advocates made their case at the Legislative Assembly in San José, an Alajuela lawyer got off the hook for growing pot on his roof, and the Public Security Ministry announced a two-metric-ton marijuana seizure in...

Recently, the Legislature passed and Gov. Chris Christie signed into law A4587, a bill requiring schools and facilities for the developmentally disabled to allow the administration of medical marijuana to qualifying patients. This law was inspired by Genny, the 16-year-old daughter of the...

Ten years ago this month, Rhode Island legalized medical marijuana. Today, nearly 13,000 patients are enrolled, not to mention more than 2000 caregivers. And 100 new applications arrive every week. Is it sustainable? Ellen Lenox Smith taught seventh grade social studies for years. She was...

Shasta County will consider a ban on medical cannabis delivery services for unincorporated areas, along with the adoption of zoning permits for growing medical marijuana in code approved structures. Planning Commissioners will consider amendments to the county's existing medical marijuana...

It's not JUST about the money. I know, this is not something most folks expect to read in an investment newsletter. So let me explain... A few years ago, when I first started writing about the legal marijuana space, I was accused of compromising my ethics in an attempt to make a buck. But...

The Senate has snuffed out another attempt to open the door to medical marijuana in Indiana. Portage Democrat Karen Tallian has authored bills in past years to decriminalize pot or allow medical marijuana. This time, she tried instead to allow people with valid prescriptions from other states...

Republican lawmakers are trying to amend Arizona's Medical Marijuana Act to make it more difficult for patients to access medication. Their proposals include limiting which types of doctors can issue medical marijuana referrals, tightening restrictions on who can receive referrals and...

A bill that advocates claim would allow so-called "whole plant" medical cannabis usage has finally been unveiled in the Utah State Legislature. Senate Bill 73, from Sen. Mark Madsen, R-Saratoga Springs, directs the Utah Dept. of Agriculture to license and regulate cannabis cultivation and...

It was a quiet open house on Tuesday when Planning Services presented information on their proposed amendment to the horticulture use section of the land-use bylaw to include a definition for medical cannabis. Of the 15 people who came out to the Nan Boothby Library, most were asking questions...

The city will stop issuing new business tax certificates to medical marijuana dispensaries under an ordinance approved today by the Los Angeles City Council. Despite the 2013 voter approval of Proposition D, which banned most medical marijuana businesses in Los Angeles, city finance officials...

The Dent Neurologic Institute in Amherst receives as many as 100 calls a day about medical marijuana, and for good reason. Of the 226 doctors certified to recommend marijuana in New York State as of last week, 12 of them work at Dent. Dent wants to be on the leading edge of using and...

Texas officials are in the process of figuring out an administrative system for the state's medical marijuana program. Last year, Governor Greg Abbott signed the Compassionate Use Act into law. It allows people with intractable epilepsy, whose seizures cannot be controlled with traditional...

Last year, the state of Georgia dabbled with medical marijuana legalization. But nine months later Gov. Nathan Deal has yet to inhale. In April 2015, Deal ratified House Bill 1, nicknamed "Haleigh's Hope Act," which legalized low-THC – the psychoactive chemical that gets you a high – cannabis...

Americans for Safe Access-Illinois (ASA-Illinois) strongly supports the Medical Cannabis Advisory Board's decision to approve eight debilitating conditions that were not originally included in the Illinois Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act. The Medical Cannabis Advisory...

The Canadian Medical Cannabis Industry Association (CMCIA) has announced that OrganiGram Inc. is re-joining the Association as a member. OrganiGram, based in Moncton, New Brunswick, is licensed to produce and sell medical cannabis under Health Canada's Marihuana for Medical Purposes Regulations...

The grandparents of a five-year-old with terminal brain cancer have called in a lawyer after doctors refused to consider medical cannabis to treat the child. In August last year the child was given nine to 12 months to live after being diagnosed with an inoperable tumour on her spinal cord...

The grandparents of a five-year-old with terminal brain cancer have called in a lawyer after doctors refused to consider medical cannabis to treat the child. In August last year the child was given nine to 12 months to live after being diagnosed with an inoperable tumour on her spinal cord...