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With two medical cannabis dispensaries now selling products, the Hawaii Department of Health is bracing for a surge of patients signing up for the state's medical cannabis registry. "With other states that have similar size programs, we've seen up to a 50 percent increase in the first year...

With two medical cannabis dispensaries now selling products, the Hawaii Department of Health is bracing for a surge of patients signing up for the state's medical cannabis registry. "With other states that have similar size programs, we've seen up to a 50% increase in the first year. We've...

Less than a week after it opened, Maui's first state-licensed medical marijuana dispensary is reworking its opening hours as demand for its product outstrips supply because of a backlog. Maui Grown Therapies says it had expected its most recent batch of flowers to clear state lab...

Patients rejoiced with smiles and shouts Tuesday after making the first legal purchases of medical cannabis at a licensed dispensary in the state at Maui Grown Therapies in Kahului. The Maui dispensary, one of two licensed on the island, got the green light from the state Department of Health...

Hawaii history was made today with the first legal sale of marijuana, nearly two decades after the state approved the use of pot for medical purposes. Fred Rickert was the first customer at Maui Grown Therapies when he bought pot at around noon. Maui Grown is the first of eight dispensary...

Dispensary sales of medical marijuana in Hawaii are beginning after patients waited 17 years for a legal way to purchase the drug. Maui Grown Therapies received approval from the Department of Health to begin selling medical cannabis Tuesday. The dispensary plans to start selling medical...

Florida has seen a 60 percent surge in the number of patients being treated with medical marijuana since June. Florida had 16,760 patients on June 7, according to state reports. Florida added more than 10,000 patients by July 27, for a total of 26,978 on the books – that’s a 60 percent...

Medical cannabis users reported better "clinically meaningful" health outcomes than non-users, and epilepsy sufferers in particular reported health improvements after using medical cannabis, according to researchers here. In a survey-based study, users of medical cannabis reported...

State Senator Jose Menendez has filed a bill to give Texas veterans, cancer patients and others fighting chronic conditions access to medical cannabis. Currently, only patients with a certain form of epilepsy may use medical marijuana, but Senate Bill 79 would give doctors the authorities to...

Illinois' medical-cannabis pilot program has gained thousands of patients in the past year, and retail sales at dispensaries last month were more than double what they were in July 2016. There are now 23,300 patients in the state approved to use medical cannabis, well over double the number...

The MS Society's statement on cannabis last week flew under the news radar, but it's an important development in the drug debate. For the first time, the organization said the drug should be "legalized for medicinal use for people with MS to relieve their pain and muscle spasms when other...

There's a rally in Auckland on Saturday to call for better access to natural affordable cannabis. Organisers NORML and Auckland Patients Group say they're against synthetic products. There have been as many as 10 deaths linked to synthetic cannabis in Auckland in the month of July. The...

Medical marijuana advocates and dispensary owners in Northern Michigan have filed a petition in the City of Gaylord. They want the city to allow the fully legal operation of medical marijuana dispensaries. The petition comes after seven people were arrested following dispensary raids in...

The Pennsylvania Department of Health is moving at full speed trying to implement an extremely limited medical cannabis law, but there may be a poison pill planted by legislators: Making doctors join a special list. Only two states operate a similarly draconian "physician registry" scheme for...

Medical marijuana will soon be easier to get in New York. The state has doubled the number authorized distributors from 5 to 10 and the newly approved companies plans to dispense their products in Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn. "The New York State Department of Health is committed to growing...

State regulators writing the rules for Ohio's new medical marijuana program wrapped up their work Monday, one month ahead of the statutory deadline. The result: A tightly regulated program that will start small, with the ability to grow as more patients sign up. Rules and regulations for...

Minnesota residents suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder can start buying medical marijuana. Tuesday brought the latest expansion of the state's medical marijuana program that launched in July 2015. Patients suffering chronic pain that couldn't be treated with other means were...

Here are 10 countries with significant laws legalizing medical marijuana: 1) Argentina - In March 2017, Argentina became the most recent country to legalize medical cannabis. It went a step further by agreeing to provide patients that qualify for treatment with this medical cannabis free of...

It can be hard for medical marijuana patients to get to a dispensary if for example they are homebound, elderly or suffer from seizures and can't drive. A patchwork of delivery services has been expanding around the country, based on each state, county or city's laws. But medical marijuana...

Six years after the Christie administration selected a half-dozen nonprofits to produce cannabis for the state's medical marijuana program, the last one of the bunch on Thursday received a permit to begin growing its first crop, Health Commissioner Cathleen Bennett announced Thursday...