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A group of doctors who want to help Maryland patients enter the state's new medical-marijuana program are planning to open an office in Hagerstown next month. Green Health Docs – which bills itself as "the nation's premier medical marijuana evaluation practice" – is already accepting patients...

Inside a nondescript white-washed office building across from St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa is one of the state's first walk-in clinics for patients seeking medical marijuana. Similar to a walk-in urgent care center, Tetra Health Care is a place where patients can see a licensed doctor about...

If your image of a marijuana dispensary is, say, a smoke-filled room adorned with Grateful Dead posters and jars of musky buds named "Banana Kush" and "Hawaiian Haze," you may be disappointed by Florida's version. The first thing you notice walking into Trulieve dispensary in Tampa is the...

Polish President Andrzej Duda signed the law previously approved by the Sejm on Friday, according to which medication containing marijuana can be purchased at pharmacies on prescription, reports RMF24. "According to the new rules, patients should have simplified access to marijuana to treat...

Nearly five years after voters made marijuana legal for medical purposes, the Cape and Islands are still without a single dispensary, which has forced many patients to turn to the black market or legally questionable delivery services to purchase what they say is life-improving medicine...

It's been a month and half since Orlando's first medical marijuana dispensary opened its doors, and News 6 is following up to see how business is going. Knox Medical is located on Orange Avenue in Ivanhoe Village. The cannabis dispensary offers low-THC oils and cartridges for...

Let's talk about marijuana. Specifically, let's talk about how and why I came to be one of the countless parents across America (and around the world) who have let their chronically ill children try it. A groundbreaking new study published last spring in the New England Journal of Medicine...

Two Halifax researchers are urging the federal government to keep medicinal and recreational marijuana streams separate once the plant is legalized in Canada. The op-ed, published in the latest issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, was co-authored by Dr. Melanie Kelly, a...

Research from UBC shows marijuana patients are giving storefront dispensaries high marks for quality, safety and availability but not for cost. The study is the first of its kind, looking at access from dispensaries in Canada. "We know that about 80 per cent of patients use dispensaries...

Jon Huntsman Sr. has an interest in using medical marijuana for what it could do to treat the pain associated with his health problems. The billionaire philanthropist has beaten cancer four times and has battled a painful inflammatory disorder called polymyalgia rheumatica for the past 10...

The price hike in marijuana is causing some patients to turn back to the streets to buy medicine. Emily Wilson said she moved to Las Vegas because it had approved the use of medical marijuana, which was her only cure to years of pain from a chest surgery. "It changed the whole quality of...

Medicine is a unique discipline, at once cutting edge and surprisingly low-tech. For all of the advances made in medical imaging technology and pharmaceuticals, medical records remain a largely pen and paper affair. As a result, doctors may miss opportunities to better tailor treatment to...

Dinner, a ride and office supplies are a few touchpad clicks away. So, Jonathan Ghiz and Justin Schudel figured that the booming medical-marijuana market would be a natural fit for this on-demand model. When the two friends with backgrounds in technology and hospitality discovered no such...

Medical cannabis is currently legal in 29 states and the District of Columbia and there are approximately 2 million medical cannabis patients in the United States overall. In the coming weeks before the August recess, these patients will be watching closely as Congress is expected to vote on the...

On July 1, it became legal for any adult to buy marijuana in Las Vegas. An eighth ounce (3.5 grams) of top-grade buds costs just $25. Philadelphia is getting a few medical cannabis dispensaries some time next year, but there won't be any cheap weed for sale. Pennsylvania has only legalized...

In a special legislative session June 23, Gov. Rick Scott approved a bill that effectively puts into action a state constitutional amendment approving medical marijuana passed by voters in 2016. The measure expands the list of debilitating conditions that could make patients eligible to receive...

Veterans groups are pressing Gov. Andrew Cuomo to allow those with post-traumatic stress disorder to use medical marijuana, urging him to sign a bill that will soon head to his desk. The state Senate voted late last month to add PTSD to the list of illnesses and ailments eligible for the...

Starting in August, approximately 100 physicians will be able to grant licenses to patients who require medical cannabis to obtain it directly from their health fund clinics, Health Ministry associate director-general Prof. Itamar Grotto told the Knesset Committee on Drug Abuse on Tuesday...

Walk into a medical marijuana dispensary in New Jersey and the first thing to hit you is the stink. Weed's scent is a sour blast that seems to reek of citrus, diesel, and skunk. At the Garden State Dispensary in Woodbridge, Middlesex County, charcoal air purifiers – encased in gleaming steel...

Since the state started allowing chronic pain patients to use medical marijuana in late March, more than 7,500 have signed up for the state’s program. As of June 22, that brought the total number of patients certified to use medical marijuana for qualifying conditions to 22,496 — a 50 percent...