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AT A former Hershey's chocolate factory just outside Ottawa a company called Tweed now produces a rather different confection: marijuana for Canada's tightly regulated medical market. Under the gaze of surveillance cameras, scientists in lab coats concoct new cannabis-based blends in...

Just to the south of the hulking Stern Beverage beer-distribution warehouse in Milan sits a relatively tiny and decidedly nondescript building. It has massive rocks between the parking lot and the structure that look decorative but are actually a low-tech security measure designed to prevent a...

New York's medical marijuana program is due to launch next month, but the question of when all qualifying patients - roughly 500,000, or one in forty residents across the state - will be able to purchase cannabis still has advocates concerned. While the patients themselves are ready, most...

New York's medical marijuana program is due to launch next month, but the question of when all qualifying patients - roughly 500,000, or one in forty residents across the state - will be able to purchase cannabis still has advocates concerned. While the patients themselves are ready, most...

A measure that would allow terminally ill patients to use full-strength marijuana has just one more committee stop before going to the Senate floor for a vote during the 2016 legislative session. The Senate Criminal and Civil Justice Appropriations Subcommittee on Thursday unanimously approved...

In Illinois, medical marijuana applications are pouring in after it became legal to sell at dispensaries in November. The Illinois Department of Public Health announced this week 3600 patients have been approved for the pilot program -- including 22 children. Advocates say the increase is...

In Illinois, medical marijuana applications are pouring in after it became legal to sell at dispensaries in November. The Illinois Department of Public Health announced this week 3600 patients have been approved for the pilot program -- including 22 children. Advocates say the increase is...

Minnesota health officials have decided to allow residents with intractable pain to buy medical marijuana starting in August. A state official briefed on the decision confirmed it to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to comment ahead of an official...

Minnesota health officials have decided to allow residents with intractable pain to buy medical marijuana starting in August. A state official briefed on the decision confirmed it to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to comment ahead of an official...

First, it was testicular cancer. Then tumors were found in his lungs. And when those had finally shrunk — thanks to an aggressive chemotherapy and radiation — Brian Tomasulo learned that the cancer had spread to his brain. After collapsing at work one day in May 2014, the Newtown resident was...

First, it was testicular cancer. Then tumors were found in his lungs. And when those had finally shrunk — thanks to an aggressive chemotherapy and radiation — Brian Tomasulo learned that the cancer had spread to his brain. After collapsing at work one day in May 2014, the Newtown resident was...

A new Halifax clinic is helping patients and their doctors navigate the sometimes complicated medical and legal grounds for cannabis-based treatments. "The thing is most GPs and specialists aren't very comfortable writing prescriptions for cannabis. We will actually take that over," said Dr...

A new Halifax clinic is helping patients and their doctors navigate the sometimes complicated medical and legal grounds for cannabis-based treatments. "The thing is most GPs and specialists aren't very comfortable writing prescriptions for cannabis. We will actually take that over," said Dr...

The health ministry in Skopje told BIRN that it is carrying out wide-ranging consultations about making marijuana treatments available to people suffering from serious illnesses "We are consulting experts, specialist doctors from various fields, pharmacologists, representatives of civil...

The health ministry in Skopje told BIRN that it is carrying out wide-ranging consultations about making marijuana treatments available to people suffering from serious illnesses "We are consulting experts, specialist doctors from various fields, pharmacologists, representatives of civil...

Changes might be coming for Colorado cannabis physicians and the patients they serve — but at least those docs and their clients will have had a say. On November 19, the Colorado Medical Board will consider, and likely approve, the final draft of guidelines for medical marijuana physicians...

Changes might be coming for Colorado cannabis physicians and the patients they serve — but at least those docs and their clients will have had a say. On November 19, the Colorado Medical Board will consider, and likely approve, the final draft of guidelines for medical marijuana physicians...

The number of Michigan's active, registered medical marijuana patients is up more than 18,000 people from three years ago, according to the Michigan Medical Marijuana Registry Program, part of Michigan Licensing and Regulatory Affairs in Lansing. Currently, the state logs 178,629 active...

The number of Michigan's active, registered medical marijuana patients is up more than 18,000 people from three years ago, according to the Michigan Medical Marijuana Registry Program, part of Michigan Licensing and Regulatory Affairs in Lansing. Currently, the state logs 178,629 active...

Michigan law enforcement officials are not fully backing plans to overhaul the state's medical marijuana system, but unlike last year, they aren't standing in the way of proposed legislation. "While law enforcement cannot support any legislation that by definition is illegal under federal law...