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After emotional testimony on both sides, the Billings City Council – at 1:50 a.m. Tuesday, more than seven hours after opening its meeting Monday evening – voted 7-4 to ban medical marijuana dispensaries within city limits. The decision clarified that land use that's contrary to local, state...

Medical marijuana is legal in the state of Montana, but the Billings City Council has now prohibited medical marijuana operations within city limits. City staff does not known how many medical marijuana providers or dispensaries currently exist in the city limits, but has at least two on its...

Despite missing a key state deadline earlier this month, three more medical marijuana growers won final licenses on Monday to cultivate the drug. The Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission voted to grant approval for three of the five companies that had missed the deadline to be operational by...

A pudgy man in a white lab coat, protective goggles, and a white hardhat ambles down several long rows of potted marijuana plants. An industrial A/C unit cranks frigid air into the capacious grow room, located inside a 300,000-square-foot warehouse just outside Tallahassee, while an array of...

Up to six medical marijuana dispensaries could be established in Harford County, but the actual number, as well as their specific locations, will not be made public until the state commission regulating the fledgling industry approves their licenses. Dispensary locations are posted on the...

Maryland medical cannabis regulators on Monday gave final approvals to three more cultivation centers and two processing companies – and announced they would give 10 other companies that missed a key deadline additional time to complete their licensing requirements. The businesses were...

Clinton Township will sponsor an informational presentation on Michigan's new medical marijuana laws on Tuesday evening at Macomb Community College Center Campus. Three local experts will be part of the program, which concludes with comments from the public. "We've had a committee meeting...

A medical marijuana dispensary named NuMed is coming to North Avenue near the border of Bucktown and Lincoln Park, according to a building permit and the company's website. Located at 1308 W. North Ave. in a one-story brick building across from punk club Exit and just east of Stanley's Fruit...

The owner of a medical marijuana dispensary in Cumberland says he hopes to open for business in November. The Cumberland Times-News reports that one of three owners of the Allegany Medical Marijuana Dispensary recently gave the newspaper an update on his business. Sajal Roy says the...

Indica MD, a Pasadena, CA-based digital health startup has launched a HIPAA compliant medical marijuana telehealth platform in California and New York that provides patient evaluations for the safe, complementary and alternative use of cannabis. The online medical marijuana doctor service...

Although the rollout of the medical cannabis industry in Maryland has faced many challenges, an owner of a local dispensary hopes to open his doors for business in November. Sajal Roy, one of three owners of the Allegany Medical Marijuana Dispensary, 100 Beall St., recently gave an update on...

For a group of medical cannabis advocates, Saturday was about educating the public so they could, in turn, educate their state lawmakers. At the Indiana Medical Cannabis Town Hall Meeting, lawmakers, professors, veterans and other medical marijuana advocates came together at the Indiana...

A medical cannabis dispensary may be coming to Mulberry next year. Mulberry Mayor Gary Baxter said the city was approached by a company called Natural State Healthcare after the beginning of 2017, following the 2016 general election, during which Arkansas voters approved Issue 6 on the...

Our nation's addiction to opioids has been building for 10 years and Illinois' failed medical cannabis policies compound this problem, putting our patients at a dangerous and potentially deadly disadvantage. The Tribune reported on President Donald Trump's declaration labeling the opioid...

The National Institute of Health has awarded a $3.8 million research grant to Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Health System for medical marijuana research, and Vireo Health of New York will be partners in the study. This grant is the first long-term study to investigate...

At least two legislative bills will be introduced in support of legalizing medical marijuana to treat Hoosier patients, two legislators told a gathering of 100 people at a town hall on Saturday. "These are ordinary Hoosiers who are in a lot of pain and suffering who want the opportunity to...

Monday night could bring the next step toward ratifying rules for medical marijuana facilities in Upper Gwynedd. The township's commissioners could vote to advertise an ordinance that would allow medical marijuana growers and dispensaries, but only in two specific portions of the township...

Oneida County will be getting a new Dutch-style greenhouse for growing medical marijuana. MedMen, the medical marijuana company that started manufacturing products in Utica in January, now has an indoor growing operation at the site of the Brightwaters Farm greenhouses in North Utica, said...

Thousands of Floridians are impatiently awaiting the arrival of medical marijuana. And well-funded companies, more corporate than counterculture, are gearing up around the state. But there's trepidation, too. Although Palm Beach County commissioners are advancing an ordinance to allow...

An arm of the White House's antidrug office has asked Massachusetts and several other states where medical marijuana is legal to turn over information about registered patients, triggering a debate over privacy rights and whether state officials should cooperate with a federal administration...