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Many patients seek treatment at medical marijuana dispensaries because of the superb customer service and sense of control over illness they offer, not because they consider marijuana a wonder drug, said David Casarett, MD, chief of palliative care at the Duke University School of Medicine in...

About a month after Florida voters approved a constitutional amendment to broadly legalize medical marijuana, a Senate panel next week will start looking at how to carry out the requirement. The Senate Health Policy Committee is scheduled to hold a workshop on December about implementation of...

Phoenix - Claiming the state is hoarding funds, two medical marijuana users want a judge to reduce the annual charge for the legally required registration cards. In legal papers filed here, the attorney for Yolanda Daniels and Lisa Becker points out the Department of Health Services collected...

While not exactly on the cusp of legality, the prospect of medicinal cannabis becoming a reality here has drawn considerably closer with the Government's decision to facilitate a Bill put forward by People Before Profit TD Gino Kenny. Minister for Health Simon Harris has confirmed he will not...

Sarasota Co., Fla. — A doctor from Venice plans to open what he calls a "groundbreaking" medical practice in January that coincides with a new law involving marijuana. The Compassionate Cannabis Clinic of Venice (CCC) is scheduled to open its doors the first week of January and will begin to...

Those suffering from chronic pain will soon be among those able to use medical marijuana in New York state, the state's health department announced Thursday. "After conducting a thorough review of the scientific literature, it became clear that there may be certain benefits in the use of...

Albany - Medical marijuana will soon be available to New Yorkers suffering from chronic pain. The state Health Department said Thursday it is developing regulations to allow doctors to prescribe medical marijuana to patients with chronic pain, although it has yet to define what symptoms will...

Tallahassee - After an overwhelming majority of Floridians approved an expansion of medical marijuana in the state, lawmakers are preparing to hash out the regulatory set-up for the growing industry. And that's when things may get interesting, again. Some lawmakers still are cautious about...

Cut-off medical marijuana patients are caught up in state house budgetary jockeying as members of the Republican-controlled Legislature oppose a proposed budget from Gov. Steve Bullock that includes a 6 percent tax on medical marijuana sales. Senate President Scott Sales, R-Bozeman, called...

Plainfield Township, MICH. - Some West Michigan medical marijuana patients say they now must travel all the way to Ann Arbor or Detroit to get their medicine. That's because this week, members of the Kent Area Narcotics Enforcement Team raided and closed three dispensaries in Plainfield...

It hasn't even been three weeks since Proposition 205 went down to defeat on election day, but advocates for cannabis-law reform in Arizona already have three new proposals to consider. Here is a roundup of the three proposals: 1. Last week, the Arizona Marijuana Patient Society - a...

Normal - Residents in Central Illinois now have local access to medical marijuana. "Our Normal location is open now Tuesday to Sunday," said Trent Woloveck, vice president of national finance for the Denver, Colo.-based marijuana company, The Green Solution, which owns and operates the...

For a few days after voters approved Amendment 2, a leafy marijuana sign adorned the sign post outside the red-brick building where the old Plantation Club used to be at 1639 Village Square Blvd. in Killearn. The sign has since been taken down. And there are no clues as to what goes on...

Anacortes - The City Council voted 4-2 Monday to permanently ban medical marijuana cooperatives within city limits. A cooperative consists of four registered medical marijuana patients growing up to 60 plants in one residence for personal use. The ban was put in place because growing that many...

Albany - By the end of the month, New York nurse practitioners will be able to certify patients for medical-marijuana prescriptions, the state Department of Health announced Tuesday. Under the amendment, which goes into effect on Nov. 30, state-registered nurse practitioners will be able to...

Medical marijuana may become easier to obtain after nurse practitioners are allowed to certify patients for the drug starting Wednesday. The state Department of Health announced that change this week as a way to improve patient access to medical cannabis therapies. That change and others have...

Tallahassee is about to have a new medical practice focused on helping patients receive medical marijuana - just weeks after voters overwhelmingly approved Amendment 2, a constitutional amendment that greatly expands who can receive medical marijuana legally. Dr. Joseph Dorn, who has worked...

The state Department of Health on Tuesday officially filed amendments and proposed rules for New York's medical marijuana program that will allow it to authorize nurse practitioners and physician assistants to certify patients. Those expansions are not surprising and conform with proposals...

Albany, N.Y. - Beginning November 30, nurse practitioners will be eligible to register with the health department to certify patients to use medical marijuana. Previously, only physicians were able to certify patients. In order to register with the health department, nurse practitioners...

Medical Marijuana Could Help Save Lives In Florida While Florida was one of the key focal points for a Donald Trump victory, it also had some victories of it's own - at least for 71 percent of the population. Amendment 2, the medical marijuana, amendment also passed on election night. The...