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Pittsburgh has a place to treat patients eligible for medical marijuana. The Compassionate Certification Center, on Stanwix Street in downtown Pittsburgh, opened for business Friday. Channel 11 talked with some people who attended the center's grand opening. Many of those who came in...

The New York State Medical Marijuana Program has continued to expand in recent years, now servicing 38,128 certified patients via 1,349 registered practitioners, according to the New York State Department of Health (DOH). Of the more than 1,000 New York State doctors approved to certify...

Pennsylvania Department of Health officials could decide within the next two weeks whether to allow a Chicago-based medical marijuana company to move its proposed Erie County dispensary. GTI LLC was originally scheduled to open a medical marijuana dispensary at 7789 West Ridge Road, Fairview...

For the second time in as many meetings, Costa Mesa planning commissioners are set to consider plans to open a medical marijuana business in the city. The proposed operation up for review Monday – called CMX Distribution – would occupy 4,722 square feet of existing industrial warehouse space...

Iowa's medical cannabis manufacturer estimates more than 6,000 Iowans will be registered to buy products starting in December 2018, but so far, only 225 have registered. MedPharm Iowa, licensed last week as Iowa's first medical cannabis manufacturer, said in its 465-page application that the...

Earlier today, Ryan Briggs became one of the first Pennsylvanians to be certified as part of the state's new medical marijuana program. Together with his mother Diana Briggs, he and other members of his family travelled from Westmoreland County to the Compassionate Certification office in...

The Honolulu Police Department has been sending letters out to medical marijuana users this year to tell them that they "have 30 days upon receipt of this letter to voluntarily surrender your firearms." That includes a letter dated Nov. 13, signed by police chief Susan Ballard. "Your...

The state Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs gave an early Christmas present to people who want to get into the lucrative medical marijuana business. The department wasn't supposed to make applications for the five categories of licenses – growers, processers, testers, secure...

Raphael Mechoulam started his first marijuana project by walking into a police station and asking for some confiscated weed–for research purposes. "I went there, drank coffee with the policemen and got 5 kilos of cannabis, hashish," he said. Decades later, the 87-year-old Israeli chemist...

A company approved to open a medical marijuana dispensary in Lebanon announced approximately when the center will open Thursday, as well as the methods of consumption that will be available. The center will open in mid first quarter 2018, a news release from Wellness Centers of PA said, which...

City Attorney Clyde Robinson is working on an ordinance that would allow medical marijuana facilities to open, but it probably won't be ready for a vote until the first months of 2018. Kalamazoo postponed a decision on how it plans to react to new state laws governing medical marijuana...

Have they opened Pandora's box? Some Deerfield Beach city leaders worry that's what they might've done by allowing marijuana dispensaries in the city. They're now trying to stop medical dispensaries from clustering citywide by keeping them out of commercial areas that also have homes, as well...

Diana Briggs sees this as the start of the end of a four-year battle to convince politicians, and now doctors, to help her son. Friday morning, Ms. Briggs, 47, husband Michael, 48, and daughters Alexis, 21, and Hailey, 12, will drive from their Export, Westmoreland County home to the...

The grass is looking greener for New Jersey marijuana users. The idea of legal pot was once a pipe dream for those who so indulged. Not anymore. Gov.-elect Phil Murphy has pledged to sign legislation legalizing pot within 100 days of his Jan. 16 inauguration, prompting speculation on what...

Local volunteers with the Utah Patients Coalition have been collecting signatures in Sanpete County for several weeks. Volunteering for this project has been a journey that has opened my eyes to the vast numbers of people who are suffering here in our county because of the laws that have...

Marylanders interested in buying medical marijuana days after the launch of a state-sanctioned program may already be out of luck. Five of seven licensed dispensaries that have opened since Friday said they have completely or almost run out of flower — the raw part of the marijuana plant that...

The Portage City Council will have a special meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 12, to consider an emergency ordinance to allow a medical marijuana dispensary to continue to operate. Along with deciding if Lake Effect should stay in business while it pursues a state license, the council will...

Worcester County's first medical marijuana dispensary has opened in Leicester. The Worcester Telegram & Gazette reported that Cultivate Holdings Inc. cultivates, processes and dispenses medical marijuana from a 23,000-square-foot facility on 1764 Main St. Cultivate officially opened to the...

Just days after the first medical marijuana dispensaries opened in Maryland, limited supplies and technical difficulties mean little of the product is actually available. The state has licensed just 10 of an expected 92 dispensaries, and of those only six have opened – none in the Baltimore...

After nearly five years, the Route 66 Wellness Center in Williams is closing its doors. Despite a handful or regular patients, Cannabis Research Group has decided to close the doors to their medical marijuana dispensary in Williams to be closer to its main customer, Desert Springs Cancer Care...