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South Carolina lawmakers were back in Columbia to kick-off their new legislative session on Tuesday and continue their controversial debate over the legalization of medical marijuana. Local marijuana activist Emily McSherry told News 13, after speaking with legislative inside sources, most...

Cannabis Forward, will be holding an educational forum about medical marijuana at The Meeting Spot at Greenville County Library at Heritage Green on Sunday, January 24 at 2:30 p.m. The event is free to the public.

Terra Tech, an Irvine-based marijuana agriculture company, will merge with Black Oak Gallery, a retail medical marijuana dispensary in Oakland. The merger includes Blüm Oakland's supply chain: an on-site cultivation facility, proprietary marijuana strains and a retail store front. Blüm...

Israel's haredi Minister of Health Rabbi Yaakov Litzman published a plan today to legalize the widespread production and sale of medical marijuana, Ynet reported. Litzman, a top member of the Ashkenazi haredi United Torah Judaism Party, wants there to be no restrictions on the number of...

Israel's haredi Minister of Health Rabbi Yaakov Litzman published a plan today to legalize the widespread production and sale of medical marijuana, Ynet reported. Litzman, a top member of the Ashkenazi haredi United Torah Judaism Party, wants there to be no restrictions on the number of...

Marijuana can now be purchased legally for medical purposes in New York state, but patients seeking to access the drug might face a challenge finding a doctor who can help them get it. New York's medical marijuana program went live on Jan. 7, with only eight of a planned 20 locations open for...

Following last year's legislative session where hopes of legal medical marijuana went up in smoke, a group of Utah military veterans banded together in hopes of achieving a different outcome in 2016. Sandy resident Drew Reese, part of Utah Veterans for Medical Cannabis, said they'd grown...

As the state moves forward with its plans to move Washington's largely unregulated medical marijuana system into its highly regulated and – highly taxed – retail system, Seattle has put new rules into place to better distribute thew stores across the city. In a unanimous vote Monday...

Should Elko allow medical marijuana establishments within the city limits? The Elko City Council wants to hear from you. The Council voted 4-1 Tuesday to table a resolution extending a two-year ban on those businesses until 2018. "I see this as an opportunity the City ought to consider,"...

New York State has its first official medical marijuana patient. Vireo Health of New York introduced Brittany Barger, 27, in White Plains. She's believed to be the state's first ever medical cannabis patient. Barger has ovarian cancer. Chemo made her too sick, so she set out to find an...

New York State has its first official medical marijuana patient. Vireo Health of New York introduced Brittany Barger, 27, in White Plains. She's believed to be the state's first ever medical cannabis patient. Barger has ovarian cancer. Chemo made her too sick, so she set out to find an...

Guadalupe's City Council voted in favor of prohibiting cultivation, processing and transport of medical marijuana and also moved to create an advisory committee on economic development at its meeting Tuesday. Over several months, the council has worked to meet a March 1 deadline to establish...

The Butte County Board of Supervisor's chambers were packed Tuesday as Code Enforcement gave a report on their first year of medical marijuana regulations. Measure A, passed by voters in November of 2014, brought about some restrictions to growing in Butte County. The "Stay in the Box"...

If you think about growing medical marijuana, you probably picture pot growing in a field or maybe a green house. Instead, think prison, with a hint of laboratory. At the end of a residential road in Lake Wales, you'll pass a set of railroad tracks and then a 10-foot barbed wire fence...

A bill in the state House of Representatives that would license limited medical marijuana cultivation has the signatures of 60 percent of representatives. Its sponsor, state Rep. Allen Peake, R-Macon, said he is pleased with the support. Peake's House Bill 722 would let the state license...

Last week, New York State launched its medical marijuana program, making approved forms of the medical marijuana available with certification at designated dispensaries. "They call this medical marijuana, what it really is is extracts of marijuana that are at issue," said Ken Leonard, director...

New York state opened its first medical marijuana dispensaries on Thursday, launching one of the most conservative and tightly monitored programs of its kind in the United States. In opening the clinics, New York joins 22 other states and Washington, D.C., with comprehensive medical marijuana...

A medical organization is making recommendations for Hawaii's nascent medical marijuana dispensary system, saying it wants doctors to have a say in the process. "We feel we have to stand up as a medical society to have a clear voice – for the Department of Health, the state, doctors and...

Manhattan's first and only medical marijuana dispensary is like a fortress. To enter the building, located on 14th Street near the 3rd Avenue subway station, patients have to pass through two security systems before they even encounter another human. First, they flash their medical marijuana...

Medical cannabis is set to hit pharmacy shelves in Israel in the form of cigarettes, cookies and oil, while the number of doctors permitted to prescribe the natural painkiller and the number of farmers allowed to grow it will substantially increase, according to a Health Ministry reform. At...