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The amount of approved medical marijuana cards in Arkansas has surpassed 500, officials say. The Arkansas Department of Health said it has approved 534 medical marijuana applications for patients seeking the drug as of Friday. They also had 539 applications still pending. A number of...

The Florida Department of Health has chosen five new marijuana growers in the last few weeks. The new nurseries selected are: Treadwell Nursery, Sunbulb Company, 3 Boys Farm, Plants of Ruskin and Loop's Nursery and Greenhouse. Treadwell Nursery has been selected as Central Florida's...

With two medical cannabis dispensaries now selling products, the Hawaii Department of Health is bracing for a surge of patients signing up for the state's medical cannabis registry. "With other states that have similar size programs, we've seen up to a 50 percent increase in the first year...

A year shy of Ohio's medical marijuana program becoming operational, Cleveland Cannabis College is expanding it's curriculum in the hopes of helping to fill the thousands of jobs that could be created with the budding industry. Cleveland Cannabis College staff tout the program as the only...

City commissioners voted in favor of banning medical marijuana dispensaries within Winter Park at a meeting Monday afternoon. The measure, which repealed and replaced the city's previous rules on medical cannabis, passed by a 4-1 vote with Commissioner Sarah Sprinkel voting in opposition...

Liberty Twp. trustees are poised to extend a temporary ban on medical marijuana businesses an additional six months. A one-year ban on medical marijuana businesses was put in place last September by the trustees, just before Ohio's law allowing medical marijuana took effect. The law...

A proposal to prohibit medical marijuana operations in Moraine is set to be discussed tonight. The Moraine Planning Commission is scheduled to hold a public hearing on a ban that "would apply to all zoning districts," according to City Planner Mike Hammes. Last week the city extended a...

Medical marijuana regulators in Maryland on Monday authorized eight companies to grow the plant and four businesses to process it into medicine. The decision at a meeting of the state's medical cannabis commission comes one year after the panel chose 15 growers and 15 processors from a large...

While the primary issues that will be debated in the 2020 presidential race will likely include the usual topics – jobs, infrastructure spending, national security, taxes, healthcare laws, trade, crime, immigration, and economic growth, another topic that may very well take on added prominence...

With two medical cannabis dispensaries now selling products, the Hawaii Department of Health is bracing for a surge of patients signing up for the state's medical cannabis registry. "With other states that have similar size programs, we've seen up to a 50% increase in the first year. We've...

A public hearing on a proposed medical marijuana ordinance in Lansing is happening tonight. Council members scheduled the hearing after passing a motion at a meeting last month. It's the city's first public hearing on medical marijuana in six years. The council will get feedback from the...

Arkansas' medical-marijuana program is mostly off to a smooth start, but applications for medical marijuana cards are off to a slow start. So far, submissions from patients seeking medical marijuana cards have been lower than expected according to Robert Brech, General Counsel for the...

A newly created medical marijuana advocacy group that includes former Attorney General Dustin McDaniel and reportedly State Medical Board Chairman Dr. Steven Cathey has waded into controversy only a day after announcing that it would serve as the "leading voice" for the state's fledgling...

If you have visitors coming for the eclipse who might use medical marijuana, you might want to remind them it's not legal in Wyoming. The Wyoming Association of Sheriffs and Chiefs of Police raised the issue in an eclipse-related press release last week. "Even if you have a card from...

Safe Access Tennessee, a group working to advance cannabis therapeutics is speaking out. The medical marijuana group originally had plans to be part of tonight's Nashville Sounds educate Tennessee charity night -- when the entire event got canceled on Friday. "Most people believe that when...

The export of medical cannabis has been approved by an interministerial committee of the Finance and Health Ministries, it was announced on Sunday. The state will earn from this an estimated NIS 1 billion to NIS 4 billion a year. Any entity that meets the requirements may obtain a license to...

In October the UK will host what is believed to be its first medical cannabis conference, an international jamboree of weed-based therapies in London. It may seem like an eccentric choice, given cannabis is illegal in Britain. But Saul Kane, the Israeli entrepreneur behind the event, is...

The state Department of Health is making changes The Department of Health announced new proposed regulations that would make changes to the state's medical marijuana program to improve access. New York's program has been criticized by the Marijuana Policy Project and patient advocates as...

Hawaii's first medical marijuana dispensary is lashing out at the Department of Health after causing delays in supplying cannabis. Hawaii’s first medical cannabis dispensary is already having to suspend sales just five days after it began selling marijuana, and the operators aren’t happy...

An Indiana lawmaker is preparing for a fight as he gets ready to introduce a medical marijuana bill. State Representative Jim Lucas, a Republican from Seymour, said customers aren’t the ones visiting his print shop right now. “I’ve had people stop here at my shop that have thanked me with tears...