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The Florida Department of Health's fifth and final hearing on new medical marijuana rules may have been its most sparsely attended, but those who did show up largely spoke with one voice. Not all speakers presented the same wish list, but many – particularly hopeful cannabis patients and...

The Downtown Dispensary is a state licensed medical marijuana dispensary located off the intersection of Sixth Street and Sixth Avenue. It has been offering services to patients since it opened in August 2013. The dispensary was named Best Marijuana Dispensary in the Tucson Weekly's Best of...

More than three-quarters of the state's 13,000 or so medical marijuana-eligible patients have purchased the drug, but only half of the 13,000 are repeat buyers under the tightly regulated state program, according to Department of Health data provided to the Times Union. Through late January...

Albany – With New York's medical marijuana industry struggling to get off the ground, one licensed pot grower is looking to tap a new market with a vast supply of possible customers – nursing homes. Etain, one of the five companies licensed by the state Health Department to grow and sell...

If you have not heard, the Georgia Senate is voting on a bill that would allow patients with PTSD, HIV-AIDS, chronic pain and other diseases access to medical marijuana. There is another bill in the Georgia House trying to provide further expansions to patients. Under the current law, Georgia...

After failing in an ulcerative colitis test a few years back, GW Pharma's cannabis-derived orphan drug treatment has had better luck in a small oncology study for an aggressive type of brain tumor. In the phase 2 study, the U.K. biopharma's cannabidiol (CBD) and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)...

Georgia House Bill 65, which aims to add HIV/AIDS as diagnoses for which medical cannabis can be prescribed, is all set to head to the House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee. The House's working group on medical cannabis, led by Rep. Allen Peake (R-Macon) – who also authored HB 65 – met this...

Earlier this week I announced that applications to prescribe non pharmaceutical grade cannabis based medicinal products would no longer require my approval as Associate Minister of Health. I further announced that I would be advising medical authorities of a list of known such products that were...

As the number of medical marijuana caregivers and patients in Macomb County and across Michigan continues to increase, more changes are in the works for the 2008 voter-approved law that legalized medical marijuana in Michigan. New laws passed last fall regulate the growing and distribution of...

Just over two decades ago, California became the first state to legalize and regulate medical marijuana. Since then, the nationwide trend has almost without exception been toward loosening prohibitions on the drug, particularly in light of increasing evidence that supports its therapeutic use in...

New medical marijuana regulations proposed by state health officials would block patients from timely and affordable access to medication, restrict physicians in treating their patients, and potentially undercut the development and distribution of quality medicine, an overflow crowd told Florida...

There are only two that I have personally worked with and can recommend. Alternative Solutions Plus (ASP) has clinics across the state and will happily assist patients be fully organized with the required documents before the visit. I have known them to offer discounts to low income...

"Locations coming soon in Detroit and NOW OPEN in Pontiac," says a posting from Sky High Head Shop and Wellness Center in Pontiac on the website wheresweed.com. The business name is still above the storefront in the strip mall on Huron Street, but there's another smaller sign taped to the...

When Dr. Jessica Collins McCain returned to her hometown of Fort Pierce to practice medicine in 2015, one of her first patients was an older man with rectal cancer. "His only question was, 'How can I control my pain when I can't even sit comfortably,'" said Collins McCain, a general...

Smoke it if you've got it. A bill filed by Sen. Jeff Brandes Wednesday to scrap the existing regulatory framework for medical marijuana would let patients registered with the state's Compassionate Use Registry smoke the medicinal herb. "It specifically allows it," the St. Petersburg...

The question isn't if medical marijuana works for Kevin Hernandez, a leg amputee who deals with phantom pains and neuropathy. He said it does. Rather, the Albany man and his sister, Christine, are grappling with how they'll pay for it. "He was like, 'Hey, Chris, I'm going to start on this...

Orange Park - State Sen. Rob Bradley, R-Fleming Island, filed legislation implementing Amendment Two, the Florida constitutional amendment that expands the medical marijuana system in the state. The Florida Legislature will consider Senate Bill 406 during the regular session convening March...

In 2013, after her mother, Myriam, was diagnosed with brain cancer, Diana Peña, a makeup artist and hairstylist in Rancho Cucamonga, began researching whether cannabis could help. Doctors had given Myriam a prognosis of three months to live, Peña said, and there was "not a whole lot they could...

Ohioans seeking medical marijuana to address chronic pain, cancer, brain injuries and other conditions will have to pay $50 a year to the state for a patient card, according to rules being considered by the Ohio Medical Marijuana Advisory Commission. The advisory panel is accepting public...

As Connecticut considers expanding its medical marijuana program this year, local officials and medical professionals are weighing in on the benefits and risks of making the drug more widely available. The program's Board of Physicians appealed to the state Department of Consumer Protection...