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Doug and Stacy Olexy have heard the stories about medical marijuana, and they are filled with hope. Stacy has a brother in California, the first state to launch a medical marijuana program 21 years ago. "He has friends who have actually been prescribed, and they've benefited through a huge...

The National Football League is back in action this weekend—if you count preseason games as "action"—after taking a tiny step toward maybe, possibly, someday letting players use marijuana to treat pain. NFL owners agreed to work together with the NFL Players Association on a study to determine...

State Senator Jose Menendez has filed a bill to give Texas veterans, cancer patients and others fighting chronic conditions access to medical cannabis. Currently, only patients with a certain form of epilepsy may use medical marijuana, but Senate Bill 79 would give doctors the authorities to...

Illinois' medical-cannabis pilot program has gained thousands of patients in the past year, and retail sales at dispensaries last month were more than double what they were in July 2016. There are now 23,300 patients in the state approved to use medical cannabis, well over double the number...

Ohio is moving ahead with rules for growing, processing and selling medical marijuana, but the job of testing the product for public consumption remains up in the air. The state law, which went into affect last September, requires an Ohio college or university to test marijuana for "potency...

Jesus Aponte pushes a door open to reveal hundreds of aromatic, spiky green plants, a crop that Puerto Rico hopes will help it ease a grinding economic crisis by generating millions in revenue and tens of thousands of jobs. Aponte, a 29-year-old biologist and chemical engineer, had been...

Dr. Joseph Dorn watched his terminally ill patients suffer and discovered that some of them were illegally using marijuana to alleviate their pain. He went on to become medical director of one of the handful of companies licensed to grow medical marijuana in Florida and had patients calling...

Today, under current laws in England and Wales, cannabis is almost always officially illegal. The Home Office tells us there are no plans to legalize the drug. When last debated in Parliament in 2015 the government announced "substantial scientific evidence shows cannabis is a harmful drug...

More than 100 physicians in just 10 days have signed up to prescribe medical marijuana in Pennsylvania. Physician General Dr. Rachel Levine tweeted Friday that the physicians have taken the first step to becoming approved medical marijuana providers by completing a practitioner registry on...

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said marijuana and its potential in treating football-related injuries is "a medical issue" that the league is interested in researching further. "If pain management is something that medical marijuana can address responsibly, that's something that our medical...

This week, Senator Cory Booker introduced legislation to legalize marijuana nationwide. If passed, the New Jersey's Democrat's bill would "expunge federal marijuana convictions and penalize states with racially-disparate arrest or incarceration rates for marijuana-related crimes," according to...

If you're one of the nearly 200,000 people in New Jersey who suffer from chronic pain, migraines, anxiety, opiate-use disorder, arthritis, Alzheimer's disease, autism, Tourette syndrome and a few other ailments, you should be allowed to obtain medicinal marijuana, with the consent of your...

A New Jersey-based nonprofit organization was quietly selected earlier this year to run New Castle County's second medical marijuana growing and dispensary operation without competitive bidding, state and organization leaders confirmed Wednesday. Compassionate Care Research Institute, whose...

The white-and-green-trimmed building is barely noticeable from the road. Driving along the busy Dale Mabry Highway, motorists speed past, seemingly without noticing the Trulieve name in large purple-and-green letters or its motto: "Relief ... Naturally." They might not even realize inside the...

As the start of the new school year approaches, districts are still unclear on how to handle medical marijuana on school grounds. Branden Petro of Hillsborough County suffers from one of the most deadly forms of epilepsy out there. His first seizure at 8-years-old put him into the hospital...

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A vacant industrial site in the town of Geddes may become home to Onondaga County's first medical marijuana growing operation. Terradiol New York, a Syracuse company authorized this week by the state to grow marijuana in Onondaga County, won't say where it will locate its proposed plant...

New York's medical marijuana field is growing, with five more companies now licensed to open dispensaries – including locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, according to the State Department of Health. The state announced Tuesday that NY Canna, Fiorello Pharmaceuticals, Valley...

The State of Ohio Board of Pharmacy has released a new proposal that could potentially lead to 18 medical marijuana dispensaries placed in Northeast Ohio, with five of them being located in Cuyahoga County. The Board of Pharmacy is responsible for determining the dispensary locations, which...

With just over a year to go before medical marijuana becomes legally available in Ohio, employers are already updating their drug policies to cover workers on the job. Traditionally, company drug and alcohol policies have prohibited anyone from having illegal drugs like marijuana in their...