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In the two years since the Florida Legislature passed a law allowing highly restricted use of medical marijuana to help people with seizures, the measure remains in regulatory limbo with more questions than answers. The low-potency marijuana allowed under the Compassionate Cannabis Act of...

A statewide coalition plans to launch a social media campaign to press Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner's administration to expand the medical marijuana pilot program to more patients. The Cannabis Patient Advocacy Coalition says its campaign will include short video testimonials from Illinois...

The Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection has announced three new dispensary facilities that will be opening by the state's Medical Marijuana Program. DCP says that after a competitive process involving 19 applicants, three new medical marijuana dispensary facilities have been chosen...

No matter your personal views on the consumption of marijuana in Hawaii, medical dispensaries are on the way to our shores more than 15 years after former Hawaii Governor Ben Cayetano passed Act 228. Last year, the Hawaii State Legislature passed Senate Bill 321, which allows for the...

No matter your personal views on the consumption of marijuana in Hawaii, medical dispensaries are on the way to our shores more than 15 years after former Hawaii Governor Ben Cayetano passed Act 228. Last year, the Hawaii State Legislature passed Senate Bill 321, which allows for the...

Medical marijuana growers in Italy can breathe a bit easier. On Friday, Italy eased the punishment for those who violate the terms for being a medical grower, reported the Local. Should Italian pot enthusiasts be tempted to grow pot for personal use, however, they've been warned. "This does...

In a house at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in a suburb of Colorado Springs, a "marijuana refugee" who may spur a change in Kansas law is now 4 years old and improving cognitively. Otis Reed, whose parents moved from Baldwin City to Colorado in search of a cannabis cure for the dozens of...

The Camarillo City Council on Wednesday unanimously agreed to prohibit the cultivation of medical marijuana and other commercial cannabis activities in the city. It was the first reading of an ordinance that will amend a city code covering medical marijuana. The ordinance will return to the...

Ohio House leaders announced plans Thursday for a comprehensive review of medical marijuana, while disclosing that backers of an effort to purge old pot-related convictions are withdrawing their proposal from legislative consideration. State lawmakers have been weighing how to address medical...

Alternative Therapies in Salem is hard to find. It's off the main thoroughfares, tucked between woods, a dilapidated factory and train tracks flanked by stacks of old railroad ties. Unless you're looking for it, it's easy to miss the small white sign marking the entrance to the first medical...

The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services has issued a medical marijuana registration certificate for a center in Rochester. Sanctuary ATC is the first to receive department approval to start cultivating medical marijuana in the state. The department is implementing the...

During last year's legislative session, state Rep. Allen Peake's (R-Macon) much-debated medical marijuana bill passed, allowing Georgians to use a form of cannabis oil to treat severe cases of eight different illnesses, including cancer and Parkinson's disease. Unfortunately Peake, under...

Patients diagnosed with migraine headaches saw a significant drop in their frequency when treated with medical marijuana, according to a new study from researchers at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. The study...

Patients diagnosed with migraine headaches saw a significant drop in their frequency when treated with medical marijuana, according to a new study from researchers at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. The study...

The Seneca Nation of Indians is pursuing its own medical marijuana program on sovereign lands, but on its own schedule. New York's medical marijuana program launched Jan. 7 after an 18-month development period. The Seneca Nation is working on a separate plan to grow, manufacture and...

Linda Horan — the New Hampshire union activist who sued the state to receive a medical marijuana ID card to begin treatment without fear of being arrested — will talk about her life, struggles, and previous battles in the political arena, on Friday in Concord. The event, dubbed "Lindapalooza,"...

The Frederick County Council is considering allowing medical marijuana production on land zoned for agriculture. The bill is on the agenda for a meeting Tuesday afternoon. The proposal follows a request from a group that wants to grow cannabis at an existing greenhouse business in...

A Georgia lawmaker is moving ahead with legislation that would allow state-licensed manufacturers of medical marijuana products to operate in the state. More than 100 House members, including Rep. Katie Dempsey, R-Rome, and Rep. Eddie Lumsden, R-Armuchee, have signed the bill, which could...

Tweaking Minnesota's relatively new medical marijuana law isn't in the cards this year. That was the word from the 2014 law's Senate sponsor, Sen. Scott Dibble, DFL-Minneapolis, after Tuesday's meeting of the Task Force on Medical Cannabis Therapeutic Research, which Dibble co-chairs. The...

While California cities are rushing to meet a March 1 deadline to maintain local control over medical marijuana, the state is rushing to eliminate that deadline. An author of the legislation that sets up a new, statewide medical marijuana regulatory framework called the March 1 deadline a...