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Medical marijuana is now legal in 29 states and the District of Columbia. But the law is not quite as black and white regarding marijuana extracts such as cannabidiol. CBD is one of the active ingredients in cannabis, increasingly thought to offer wide-ranging health benefits, with few side...

Making it easier to calibrate the correct dose of medical marijuana may prompt more physicians to prescribe it as an alternative to painkillers such as opioids, according to one Canadian company. Toronto-based Resolve Digital Health has developed a smart inhaler into which patients insert a...

Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister signaled Monday that the province's private sector will be involved in the distribution of marijuana when recreational use is legalized next July. Pallister said details of the provincial plan to govern cannabis would be released Tuesday. He rejected earlier...

The criminal justice reform bill released by the Massachusetts House on Monday would let individuals convicted of marijuana possession completely expunge their records. "People will be able to expunge their record if they were ever prosecuted for possession of marijuana," said Rep. Jeffrey...

North Dakota officials who are setting up a medical marijuana system don't expect the drug to be available to patients for another year - two years after voters approved it. The timeline is disappointing to at least one marijuana advocacy group, but state Medical Marijuana Director Jason Wahl...

The list of ailments that qualify a patient to use marijuana in New Jersey doesn't cover all the people it could help, says a panel of doctors and health professionals that studied the issue for 19 months. Migraines, Tourette's, and anxiety and chronic pain stemming from various maladies...

For George Armstrong, a veteran with chronic pain and PTSD, marijuana is medicine. The Chester County resident, along with other patients and caregivers, recently added his name to Pennsylvania's new medical marijuana registry. He said cannabis helps him more than stronger stuff, such as...

In the 12 months since the introduction of legal medicinal cannabis in Australia, the government's laborious and highly-criticized legislation has resulted in frustration, anger and disenchantment for the very people it was intended to help most. The government is perhaps the only remaining...

There was no pungent smoke in the air and no bold trappings other than a bunch of green and white balloons over the front door at the grand opening Sunday of Solful, liberal Sebastopol's second medical marijuana dispensary. A few dozen folks lounged and sampled snacks in the lobby of the...

The roads of rural Lee County form a web running around and between vast fields of oranges and grapefruit, melons and potatoes, steer and cows. Soon the agricultural acres and fodder fields could lie next to what may be Florida's next cash crop – medical marijuana. As the first anniversary...

Construction will start this month on the city's first medical marijuana dispensary. It could be up and running as early as April, according to Dr. Henry Crowley, president of CannaTech Medicinals. CannaTech Medicinals is building a 50,000-square-foot growing and processing facility in the...

The town is negotiating an agreement for marijuana growing at a sprawling mill that has been mostly vacant for decades, and it could bring 500 jobs to town. Town Manager Shaun A. Suhoski said recently he is working on the host community agreement after a vote of non-opposition by selectmen...

Joshua James Frey is clear: "Without medical marijuana I would be dead." This Marine Corps veteran is a two-time Purple Heart awardee. He is among the former warfighters, led by the American Legion, who are on the frontlines of the fight for a sensible, federal medical marijuana policy...

Senator and former Vancouver mayor Larry Campbell says Canada's Senate should have no problem meeting next year's July 1 deadline to legalize marijuana. The federal Liberal government has said it plans to legalize recreational marijuana use by July of 2018. Control of Bill C-45, the...

The South Carolina Compassionate Care Act would allow qualifying patients with debilitating medical conditions and a recommendation from their physician to use and access medical cannabis. The act was introduced at the beginning of the year. Sunday, the South Carolina Compassionate Care...

The City Council is due to take a final vote Monday on proposed zoning and licensing regulations that would make this among the first municipalities in Maine to welcome so-called adult-use marijuana businesses. City officials have been working on the proposed ordinance amendments for nearly a...

Thousands of people streamed into Winnipeg’s first ever Hempfest Cannabis Expo this weekend to listen to presentations by industry leaders and check out exhibits set up by cannabis and hemp businesses from around the country. More than 60 businesses tabled the expo which was held Saturday and...

Medical professionals on the front lines of New Mexico's drug abuse epidemic have successfully petitioned members of the state's Medical Cannabis Advisory Board to recommend opioid use disorder as a condition that qualifies a patient to use cannabis. "We have a crisis in New Mexico, and we...

Jody Smedley is proud to be weaned from her former diet of prescription opiates. It wasn't long ago when she forced herself to swallow Norco to relieve the pain associated with her nerve and muscle wasting disease and Xanax to help her sleep at night. The prescriptions helped, but couldn't...

You could call it mother's little helper. A new survey found that 20 percent of parents use pot. Emma Cunningham is one of them. She's mom to 10-year-old Julian and 12-year-old Dylan. Keeping up with them isn't easy, so she says to stay on her game she uses marijuana — regularly — and she...