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Finally the legalization announcement has been made , I am ecstatic A video clip of the announcement being made can be found in the link at the bottom Federal legislation to legalize marijuana will be ready in a year, Canada's health minister told the UN at a special session of the...

A push to expand the range of conditions that would make patients eligible for medical marijuana in Louisiana stalled on the Senate floor, one vote short of advancing to a House committee. One Amite City mother is continuing her fight to gain access to the drug she believes will ease her...

Late Wednesday, the House of Representatives was locked in an often emotional debate on a bill that would allow seriously ill children to obtain medical marijuana. The bill cleared the House on a vote of 129 to 13, with eight members absent. It now moves to the Senate for consideration. The...

A Montana mother is on a mission to live without pain. Standing alongside dozens of other medical marijuana advocates, she's supporting a new initiative that would offer patients more accessibility to the drug she says is much needed. Medical marijuana is an issue that people are passionate...

Desert Hot Springs residents, medical marijuana industry representatives, and City Council members gathered Wednesday night for a public forum about the medical marijuana industry. A panel of six, which included Mayor Scott Matas, medical marijuana advocates and industry representatives spoke...

As I wandered down Nostrand Avenue looking for the right building, he stood in the middle of the busy sidewalk, raised his left hand high, and waved in my direction. "I'm right here!" he said. He greeted me with a firm handshake and a wide smile. Charlie, who asked that we refer to him...

It could take up to 24 months for the state of Pennsylvania to set up a system for regulating and dispensing medical marijuana. In the meantime, patients who want to use cannabis as medicine do so at their own risk, according to researchers studying the issue. Marcel Bonn-Miller is a...

As medical marijuana patients celebrate 420 Day today, others are busy collecting signatures to get recreational marijuana on the Arizona ballot in November. For medical marijuana patients, celebrating 420 Day doesn't mean getting stoned, said Dr. Gina Berman, medical director of The Giving...

"There are a lot of people who are suffering. Who are not being taken care of adequately in the current health system. And they find relief from medical cannabis," said Amber Iris Langston, Show-Me Cannabis Deputy Director. Amber Langston has set up shop inside JB's downtown in Joplin. Her...

A health and wellness enterprise specializing in helping people gain access to medical marijuana prescriptions is preparing to open a clinic in Cambridge later this month. Bodystream, which operates numerous wellness-oriented centres in southern Ontario, plans to open at 1150 Franklin Blvd. on...

Federal legislation to legalize marijuana will be ready in a year, Canada's health minister told the UN at a special session of the General Assembly in New York today. "We will introduce legislation in spring 2017 that ensures we keep marijuana out of the hands of children and profits out of...

Speaking at a United Nations General Assembly Special Session on drugs, being held in New York from April 19-21, Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto said Tuesday that he supported the legalization of marijuana for medical and scientific purposes, as well as increasing the amount of cannabis...

The province should cover the cost of medicinal marijuana, says a terminally ill Calgary nurse who credits the drug with making her life tolerable. Judit Saunders, whose breast cancer has spread to her brain and bones, said misguided attitudes inhibiting medical cannabis is harming patients...

More than 50 supporters of a petition to add opioid addiction to the list of approved conditions that are treatable with medical marijuana packed a small hearing room Tuesday in Augusta. Many say medical marijuana was critical in helping them recover from opioid addiction. But some health...

It's unclear if Valley farmers have a future in growing marijuana for medicinal purposes. Speaking just three days after Gov. Tom Wolf signed the medical marijuana bill into law, Benjamin Ranck, representing state Rep. Fred Keller, R-85, of Kreamer, had few answers during Tuesday's meeting of...

Medical marijuana dispensaries in Riverhead and Lake Success set up shop early this year in light of the 2014 Compassionate Care Act, which made the drug prescribable in New York State beginning on Jan. 7, 2016 after an 18-month implementation process. However, the business is still subject...

Like many college students, Julia Mannino uses marijuana. But unlike many, she does so legally. Since Mannino was diagnosed with epilepsy at age eight, her parents have looked into all different types of treatments for their daughter's neurological disorder. This past fall, after a year of...

Members of a group trying to legalize medical marijuana and industrial hemp have been removed from the agenda of a state legislative committee that had been set to discuss their proposed initiative. However, law enforcement and prosecutor groups are still listed on the agenda to testify on...

Picketers gathered outside downtown Napa's Criminal Courthouse Monday morning with signs that read: "Honk 4 Cannabis," "Racism alive + well in Napa" and "Stop raiding legal grows." They were upset that Hakeem Mwata Brown, owner of Life Enhancement Services, a medical cannabis dispensary in...

A heavily amended version of the Missouri Compassionate Care Act, which would legalize medical marijuana in Missouri if approved by voters in the state, was perfected in the House on Tuesday. In a roll call vote that crossed party lines, the legislation was perfected 91-59. The amended...