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The attorney for a Clio medical marijuana dispensary claims Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton has no authority to padlock the facility following an investigation by the Flint Area Narcotics Group. Attorney Michael Komorn, who represents the Clio Caregiver Connection, said Monday, April...

The growing number of patients who claim marijuana helped them drop their painkiller habit has intrigued lawmakers and emboldened advocates, who are pushing for cannabis as a treatment for the abuse of opioids and illegal narcotics like heroin, as well as an alternative to painkillers. It's a...

Marijuana is about the healing, not the high. That was the take-away Tuesday from a news conference hosted by Ohioans for Medical Marijuana, a political action group that wants to put an initiative on the November ballot for a comprehensive medical marijuana program. Ohioans for Medical...

Gov. Tom Wolf, state Sen. Daylin Leach, D-17th Dist., and state Rep. Tim Briggs, D-149th Dist., joined about a dozen advocates of the medical marijuana bill Wolf recently signed into law in King of Prussia Tuesday to tout the new legislation and promise its swift implementation. The law, which...

Schuylkill County District Attorney Christine Holman said she will follow the law in Pennsylvania as it relates to the possession of marijuana. "I'm for upholding the law," she said Tuesday. Holman said she is not surprised by a letter from state Sen. Daylin Leach, a proponent of the medical...

Medical marijuana advocates Tuesday urged lawmakers to allow for home-growing to keep costs down and to provide a bridge for patients during the roughly two years between a law's passage and the first legal sale at a dispensary. House Bill 523 would limit patient access to pot to licensed...

An attempt in the Iowa Legislature to expand medical marijuana access in the state may have reached its end this session with a failed vote in the Republican-controlled House, though some Democrats said Tuesday they would keep pushing the issue in the days before a possible adjournment. Both...

While the federal government plans to legalize pot, doctors debate how effective medical marijuana is in dealing with health issues. "There's no question in my mind that I would rather my children use cannabis than alcohol," said Dr. Stephanie Mason, who is a specialist in psychiatry. Mason...

State Senator Donna Campbell is perhaps the best emblem of the uphill battle that the legalization of marijuana, medical or otherwise, faces in Texas. She's also a physician, and so her opinion about whether medical weed, at least, will do patients any good might hold a little extra weight with...

The Montana Supreme Court Monday delayed until Aug. 31 the effective date of medical-marijuana restrictions that it declared constitutional in February. A majority of the court agreed with marijuana industry claims that imposing the restrictions immediately would cause "serious disruption" to a...

A proposal that would have expanded Iowa's medical marijuana law failed Monday night in the Republican-controlled House amid criticism that it didn't create a clear way for patients to access the drug. The chamber voted 31-63 to turn down a proposal that would have expanded the list of...

Two days after approving a medical-marijuana bill, the Missouri House reversed its stand, rejecting final passage of the legislation on a vote of 66 for to 87 against. The rejection came as a surprise to state Rep. Donna Lichtenegger, R-Jackson. A co-sponsor of the bill, Lichtenegger...

On 4/20, the unofficial holiday celebrated by marijuana enthusiasts around the world, Jamaica called for the UN to review the status of cannabis, questioning why the drug is still legally considered as dangerous as heroin under international law. Speaking before the UN General Assembly...

To make payroll each month, Dori Dempster used to have to carry cash to the bank in $10,000 chunks. And that, she said, was before the credit union where her medical marijuana dispensary banked abruptly closed its account. Since it opened in Vancouver in 2008, The Medicinal Cannabis...

A bid to legalize possession of cannabis oil beyond treatment for chronic epilepsy to cover Iowans who suffer from six other serious medical conditions failed in the Iowa House tonight. Representative Zach Nunn, a Republican from Bondurant whose mother has cancer, said Iowans will be able buy...

The federal government's promise to begin the process of legalizing cannabis in 2017 is amplifying calls from lawyers and advocates for an end to arrests and prosecutions for some weed-related crimes that have "clogged up the system" and left tens of thousands of Canadians with a criminal...

A medical cannabis campaigner is calling on the Tasmanian Government to adopt a multi-tiered approach to the growth of the product. It comes after the State Government announced specialist medical practitioners would be allowed to prescribe the drug to patients suffering serious and chronic...

The seizures never seem to stop for 14-year-old Branden, but neither does Branden's mother. Just like she helps her son fight through every epileptic episode, Renee Petro is fighting for the one medicine her son doesn't have access to: cannabis. "My son, who has failed with all medications...

The Missouri House has rejected a proposal to legalize medical marijuana. The legislation failed on a 66-87 vote Thursday after lawmakers scaled it back to only permit cancer patients in hospice to use the drug. The pro-legalization National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws...

Cannabis conversations are smoking in Nelson. In just one hour, over 250 signatures of support have been collected at a medicinal cannabis rally on Trafalgar's Church Steps. The gathering on Saturday saw people from all walks of life attend - families with children, the elderly and...