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Legalization of weed in California is leading to an increase in veterinarians seeking expertise about whether marijuana can safely treat pet conditions and illnesses. Veterinary practice regulators say to steer clear, but some in the industry want state lawmakers to step in. The state’s...

Patients seeking medical marijuana will soon have more places to get it in South Florida. The Palm Beach County Commission and the Dania Beach Commission agreed this week to allow medical marijuana dispensaries wherever pharmacies are allowed. "I wish it was around, legalized with a...

A group of doctors who want to help Maryland patients enter the state's new medical-marijuana program are planning to open an office in Hagerstown next month. Green Health Docs – which bills itself as "the nation's premier medical marijuana evaluation practice" – is already accepting patients...

Companies in the final running for licenses to grow medical marijuana should be able to defend their multimillion-dollar investments against a legal challenge over how those finalists were picked, an attorney for the state argued Thursday in court. The Court of Appeals, Maryland's top...

Mark Zartler measures how well his 17-year-old daughter, Kara, is doing by what he calls a "hit test" – counting the number of times she hits herself on a given day. Kara, who has severe autism and cerebral palsy, has engaged in self-abusive behavior since she was 6 years old. She smacks the...

After fracturing her neck in a car crash 15 years ago, Pamela Cabagnolo began what she called a downward spiral of opioid use. She took the drugs to get up in the morning, to go to work. She popped pills for her pain until she went to bed at night. Cabagnolo said she took her pills to exist –...

Inside a nondescript white-washed office building across from St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa is one of the state's first walk-in clinics for patients seeking medical marijuana. Similar to a walk-in urgent care center, Tetra Health Care is a place where patients can see a licensed doctor about...

Republican lawmakers have blocked an amendment to a bill that would have allowed veterans to access medical marijuana through federal doctors in states where the medicinal use of the drug is legal. The House Rules Committee removed the so-called "Veterans Equal Access" amendment from the...

With views of the Golden Gate Bridge and the Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco's Marina district is among the most beautiful neighborhoods in the world, and now boasts another attraction: a luxe medical cannabis dispensary. The Apothecarium on Lombard, which opens at noon on July 26, is no...

Pennsylvania health officials on Wednesday announced the availability of a registry for physicians who want to be able to prescribe medical marijuana for their patients. They called it the "first step" in the process. Doctors who want to prescribe medical marijuana, in addition to having a...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the acting head of the Drug Enforcement Agency Charles Rosenberg have both been named in a new federal lawsuit challenging marijuana's Schedule I status as unconstitutional. The 89-page lawsuit was filed Monday in the Southern District of New York by...

If your image of a marijuana dispensary is, say, a smoke-filled room adorned with Grateful Dead posters and jars of musky buds named "Banana Kush" and "Hawaiian Haze," you may be disappointed by Florida's version. The first thing you notice walking into Trulieve dispensary in Tampa is the...

Mounting research from around the world suggests marijuana's potential to treat multiple medical conditions ranging from chronic pain to cancer, epilepsy, HIV/AIDS, anxiety and more. Predicted to reach $55.8 billion by 20251, the global medical marijuana industry presents to investors a wide...

Officials from a Canadian medical marijuana company say they partnered with a Columbus family known for fashion retailers American Eagle and DSW – as well as an Ohio State University sports arena – to help score some home turf advantage as they hope to grow, process and sell medical marijuana in...

U.S. Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md.-1, has sponsored the Medical Marijuana Research Act of 2017, intended to remove some of the hurdles to breakthroughs involving the drug. "As a physician who has conducted NIH-sponsored research, I cannot stress enough how critical this legislation is to the...

As the state prepares to usher in medical marijuana, some Arkansans are already getting their certification to take it. So far, 220 people have been certified by the state to get their medical marijuana card. Robert Brech of the Arkansas Health Department says they've approved about 50...

With a sizable share of one of the nation’s fastest growing markets at stake, South Florida’s budding medical cannabis industry has become a crowded field of growers, lobbyists, investors, and vendors expecting big payoffs from a not-yet profitable business model. The short-term regulatory...

Regulators of the state's budding medical marijuana industry have received approval to spend an additional $6 million over the next two years on projects including a seed-to-sale tracking system. The funds for the Ohio Medical Marijuana Control Program were approved Monday, adding to the...

An 11-year-old North Texas girl is suing the federal government over its classification of marijuana — hoping to decriminalize the drug for medical purposes across the country. Alexis Bortell — who suffers from epileptic seizures — is one of several plaintiffs in this potentially...

When customers enter the Theory Wellness dispensary they are given a menu. It lists various strains and forms of medical cannabis — pre-rolled joints, chews, salve, flower, capsules, extract, cartridges, sap and tinctures. On the menu are strains like Star-Flight Guava — may help with...