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At first blush, it's a head scratcher: After years of passionate lobbying for medical marijuana in New York, the state passes a law allowing it, only to have patients seemingly avoiding it in droves. What is going on? Why would patients not be scrambling for a drug that's recognized to...

The Iowa Legislature finally took action on medical cannabis last Wednesday, an issue which has had mothers literally crying down at the Capitol for years. But instead of granting relief to desperate patients of chronic illnesses, our leaders are demonstrating once again they're quite capable of...

While it's still controversial, medical marijuana is edging toward normality. Forty states (and the District of Columbia) now have some form of law on the books that allow the drug to be used for a variety of ailments, and sales are soaring– reaching $5.4 billion in 2015. That doesn't mean...

My heart bleeds for "Mob Wives" star, Staten Islander Angela Raiola ("Big Ang") -- who lost her courageous battle against stage-four cancer early Thursday morning. My deepest condolences go out to her family and friends. Cancer stinks, and regardless of your celebrity and station in life...

He's made no secret that he will stand up for his constituents. Now District 28 Representative Bobby Nardolillo (R-Coventry) has seen to it that even those who use a drug outlawed recreationally but allowed under the law to be used as medicine have a voice in the General Assembly. Nardolillo...

Patient registration cards within the Hawai'i Department of Health's medical marijuana program are now being issued quicker. The department said Wednesday that the quicker processing is result of a new online registry, reducing the wait to three to five business days from the six to eight...

Center For Advanced Medicine located in the Greater St. Louis metropolitan area of Illinois is a multi-disciplinary practice specializing in Pain Management, Osteopathic Manipulation, Bio-Identical Hormone Therapy for Women, and Low Testosterone Therapy for Men. This compassionate medical office...

The legalization of medical marijuana in 23 states (and counting) has given patients suffering from seizure disorders, nerve damage, glaucoma and cancer treatment a much-needed weapon in the war against pain. It has also left doctors uneasy, to say the least, about their role as gatekeepers of a...

Conceding that the Utah Legislature is unlikely to pass a bill legalizing medical marijuana, Utah patients who have been using the plant along with backers of legal cannabis -– including several wealthy and well-connected Utah businessmen – plan to launch a ballot initiative that would let...

Ohioans might get to vote on legalizing medical marijuana this fall. So what do you need to know? What's the difference between medical marijuana and marijuana? What medical conditions is it used to treat? Do you smoke it? After a recreational marijuana measure failed in Ohio last year...

State health authorities Friday more than doubled the amount of medical marijuana that patients can buy, a move made after regulators determined laboratories can ensure the safety of the drug. The state Department of Public Health had imposed a stricter limit since the first medical marijuana...

Medical marijuana patients are speaking out against a proposed tax on marijuana plants. Patients say they're concerned the marijuana will become unaffordable. The Rhode Island Patient Advocacy Coalition and the ACLU of Rhode Island are asking Gov. Gina Raimondo to drop a proposed tax on...

Medical marijuana - while growing in popularity for treatment of conditions from epilepsy to chronic pain to glaucoma — is difficult to study from a scientific perspective. While more and more states are decriminalizing marijuana for medical use, pot is still not legal for any use at the federal...

Columbia Care, the United States' largest medical marijuana company, opened its doors in Rochester late January with a location at the Eastman Building Park on West Ridge Road. UR students' reactions to its opening were diverse, with some supporting the dispensary, others opposing the use of...

New draft laws to allow Australians to legally grow medicinal cannabis do not meet the "key criteria" of letting doctors prescribe the drug to patients, Greens Leader Richard Di Natale said Wednesday. Health Minister Sussan Ley on Wednesday introduced a bill into the lower house to nationally...

The patients seeking medical marijuana inquire almost daily with Dr. Rahul Khare at his storefront health care clinic in Lincoln Park. They come with cancer, spinal cord diseases, rheumatoid arthritis. Some have been turned down for a cannabis referral by the doctors they see regularly, not...

The Medical Marijuana Program in the state of New York is just a little more than a month old. The number of registered participants is growing, as is frustration in finding a recommendation for treatment. As of Tuesday, there are 350 registered physicians and 669 registered patients in the New...

Dave Stewart of Normal wasn't deterred by the state's decision last week not to expand access to medical marijuana. After the Department of Public Health announced the drug would continue to be barred for patients with eight medical conditions, including post-traumatic stress disorder...

Legalizing medical marijuana is once again before the Nebraska Legislature. Sponsors LB643, the Medical Cannabis Act, have modeled the bill after Minnesota's law, which passed in 2014. Gov. Pete Ricketts has opposed legalizing medical marijuana. KMTV reporter Nick Starling recently...

As the Canadian medical marijuana industry continues to expand and evolve at a rapid pace, unintended gaps have begun to appear across a wide spectrum of legislation. One such gap currently exists in the Ontario school system whereby students with prescriptions for medical marijuana (Student...