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The debate on how to reform Medicaid is not one that just started with the Trump administration. This has been a discussion in state capitols and the halls of Congress for almost the entirety of the 52-year program. With more than 70 million beneficiaries, Medicaid is the country’s largest...

Medical cannabis can be grown and sold in Iowa and can be used to treat more ailments under a program expansion signed into law Friday by Gov. Terry Branstad. The new law overhauls Iowa's three-year-old medical cannabis program, which critics contended was too restrictive because it provided...

Marijuana dispensaries may start selling recreational weed within Nevada as soon as July 1, the state tax board voted Monday, six months earlier than previously expected. While Nevadans voted last November in favor of legalizing marijuana, lawmakers aren’t expected to draft rules governing the...

When the State of New York approved the use of medical marijuana in 2014, the applicants to dispense the drug were vetted and reviewed by a panel of experts said to have deep backgrounds in several fields. The identities of the panel's members had been a mystery since. By July 2015, the panel...

The Iowa Legislature approved an expanded medical marijuana oil program in the final hours of its session, but advocates remain skeptical that it will have enough impact. A medical marijuana oil program approved by the Iowa Legislature might not offer much help to patients with qualifying...

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HARRISBURG – This year Kentucky farmers will grow and potentially sell more than 12,000 acres of industrial hemp, according to that state's Department of Agriculture. Hemp farmers get as much as $21,000 per acre, meaning the Kentucky program could generate crops worth upwards of $252 million...

ATLANTA — A call to scale back part of the state's medical cannabis program quickly found opposition. The proposal, which comes from the Senate, seeks to reduce the percentage of THC allowed in cannabis oil. Under the proposal, it would go from 5 percent to 3 percent. The measure would...

Berlin – German authorities say they expect to have a cannabis-growing program up and running in 2019 after the country approved legislation allowing some patients to get the drug as a prescription medication. Germany's Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices said Friday that it's...

Des Moines – Iowa's medical cannabis program would not only be extended, but dramatically expanded under legislation that received its first hearing Wednesday at the Iowa Capitol. A three-person panel of state legislators advanced a bill that would extend the current program, which permits...

Bismarck, N.D. – Five out of every 1,000 North Dakotans are expected to use medical marijuana when it's available in the state, a threshold needed to fund planned oversight of the program, the state Health Department told lawmakers Tuesday. Deputy State Health Officer Arvy Smith told the...

Houston - A new program that could let marijuana users walk free is expected to be announced Thursday by Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg. "They're taking too many young people's lives and dealing too many legal issues behind marijuana," Sean Shelley said. Shelley is among the...

For the first time in the history of the seven-year-old New Jersey medical marijuana program, a health department panel will consider adding chronic pain and other ailments to the list of about a dozen conditions that qualify a patient to use cannabis in the state. A hearing is scheduled for...

Eureka - Last month, hundreds of Emerald Triangle cannabis farmers received letters from the state threatening penalties unless they complied with California water quality regulations. Thousands of growers in Northern California have complied with these regulations, to be extended statewide...

In 2014, the Iowa Legislature took an important first step on the issue of medical marijuana. Lawmakers passed a bill through which patients afflicted by epilepsy can legally possess an anti-seizure medicine derived from cannabis. Because we have compassion for Iowans who suffer from diseases...

Sharonville — Sharonville has extended its moratorium on the establishment of medical marijuana dispensaries, to allow officials to continue to study the issue and determine how the city will regulate any future retailers. City Council voted to continue the moratorium for 180 days following a...

Minnesota's medical marijuana program needs extra state funding to cover the costs of its patient database and inspections of drug manufacturers, just a few of the regulations that make it one of the most restrictive such laws in the country. It's the latest reminder of the financial...

Albany - The lead state Senate sponsor of New York's medical marijuana law has written to President Trump asking that the feds allow such state programs to continue. Sen. Diane Savino (D-Staten Island) wrote to Trump on Dec. 9 when he was President-elect encouraging him to direct his Attorney...

Wilkes-Barre – Applications to be medical marijuana growers/processors and dispensaries are now available on the state Department of Health's Medical Marijuana Program website, according to Secretary of Health Dr. Karen Murphy. Permit applications will be accepted from Feb. 20 to March 20...

Among the last official actions taken by outgoing Agriculture Secretary Chuck Ross was to create a hemp testing pilot program. Ross signed a memo announcing the program the morning of Jan. 5, the day of Gov. Phil Scott's inauguration. Incoming Agriculture Secretary Anson Tebbetts was briefed on...