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A newly formed Arkansas company, A Medicinal Purpose, wants to help Arkansans get signed up for medical marijuana cards. They hope an event this weekend will get the ball rolling for the drug in Arkansas. Do you have one of the qualifying illnesses it takes to get medical marijuana? If that...

Marijuana proponents in Missouri say the state is ready to legalize pot for medical purposes, but they weren't as eager to support a blanket legalization of the plant. And the Show-Me State can benefit from missing the hits taken by states like California and Colorado with more progressive...

Cannabis activists say that while they've succeeded in helping to push for marijuana legalization across the country, their work is far from over. The federal government has committed to making recreational cannabis legal by July 1, 2018, but has tasked provincial governments with...

A few times a day, 92-year-old Lucy Hanson takes a little capsule; in it is medical marijuana. "They call it my happy pill and I call it my happy pill," Hanson laughs. It's hard to believe when you talk to her now but, four years ago, Lucy was confused, falling down and speaking gibberish...

The state has approved two small-scale marijuana farms in Akron. But there's a chance the city will host only one. Each operator must come back to the city and the state for a second round of approval before planting can begin sometime before next summer. The Ohio Department of Commerce...

Among critics of the federal prohibition of marijuana – a diverse and bipartisan group that includes both criminal justice reform advocates and Big Alcohol – the American Legion and its allies stand out. For more than a year, the stalwart veterans group has been working to reframe the debate...

But for an industry predicted to employ as many as 300,000 people by 2020, according to analytics firm New Frontier Data, the majority of jobs in the field will pay relatively low wages and require little skill. Jobs like budtender and bud trimmer, entry level positions, will make up the...

Behind a forbidding high-security fence topped with razor wire, Supreme Pharmaceuticals is busy preparing for the legal marijuana trade, with workers expanding a greenhouse complex where the lucrative crop grows. But while Supreme looks like it will be ready for the day when prohibition ends...

Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) on Friday vetoed a bill that would legalize the sale of recreational marijuana, nearly a year after residents voted to set up a system to sell and regulate the drug. In a letter, LePage said the law would set up a bifurcated system of recreational and medical sales...

Two years after Texas legalized medical marijuana for patients with severe, otherwise untreatable epilepsy, patients are finally close to benefiting from the law. Earlier in the week, Austin dispensary Compassionate Cultivation received the final licensing it needed to begin growing cannabis...

The national opioid crisis might open the door for medical marijuana in Tennessee. Cannabis is already allowed in 29 other states. Dean and Debra Young of Old Hickory hope approval comes sooner than later. Debra takes a long list of powerful medication everyday including morphine to...

Four Cranberry Highway shops that the Board of Health ordered to a public hearing after inspectors found hemp products in their stores in mid-October were asked to sell no more of the products until the Health Department gets results back from a laboratory which is testing to see if they fall...

A saga involving a Pacific Northwest hemp fashion company in search of a bank has been resolved, but points to the murky legal landscape facing some cannabis-related businesses. After two rescinded business accounts and a bank's change of heart, hemp clothing and accessories retailer...

Dr. Mitchell Gittelman can't say whether medical marijuana will help any of his patients. But he can't say it won't help them either. "I think since you're not going to die from cannabis," the Salisbury physician said, "it's reasonable to give people a chance to try it." Not just...

Medical marijuana is rapidly spreading across the country–most recently in Pennsylvania on Thursday when the state announced the launch of its patient and caregiver registry. Patients should be able to obtain the medication by May, and more than 100 physicians have been approved to...

Patrick King's first arrest was at age 11. It was for growing marijuana. King has always been interested in growing things. "While the other kids were playing with Legos, I was planting flowers," he said. He graduated from rose buds to cannabis buds, and even though he thought he was...

Ontario tabled its law on cannabis legalization this week that would ban users from consuming the drug outside of "private residences," a move slammed by critics as favoring "the elite" since homeless people, and many renters and condo residents could effectively be prohibited from consuming...

Maine Gov. Paul LePage on Friday vetoed a bill to regulate sales of marijuana, citing concerns including how the Trump administration is going to treat the federal-state conflict in law. His veto sets up a showdown Monday when Maine lawmakers meet next week. "Until I clearly understand how the...

The Ridgecrest City Council at its meeting Wednesday waived a reading in full and approved a first reading of an ordinance restricting cannabis cultivation and sales within city limits. If it is approved upon a second reading, the ordinance will amend the city's municipal code to prohibit...

Could Maine's famous tourism attractions include cannabis social clubs in hotels, or "bud-and-breakfast" inns complete with in-room vaporizers and cannabis gift bags? What about farm-to-table dinners with marijuana-infused ingredients? Possibly, said attorneys who offered opinions about the...