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A Senate hearing on state marijuana laws Tuesday was biased and dishonest, focusing mostly on debunked claims that marijuana use leads to substances like heroin and cocaine, drug policy groups said. "These hearings are a one-sided sham with the deck stacked with witnesses who have a track...

It's a steep climb for proponents of legalized marijuana in Connecticut. The legislature's Judiciary Committee killed a legalization bill without even holding a public hearing this year, and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy appears unalterably opposed. But the sponsor of the legislation, Rep. Juan...

As marijuana sweeps to the center of public debate, protestors and progressives – like those who tried to inflate a 51-foot joint replica in front of the White House last week – have been at the forefront of the legalization movement. During Tuesday's forum at the Warren Alpert Medical School...

Two years ago, Rick Trojan and his team at Colorado Cultivars found a wild hemp plant growing on the side of the road. It looked kind of like a Christmas tree, he said. They brought it into their greenhouse and began doing research, cultivating different strains of hemp so they could plant each...

In the still-evolving world of weed in Oregon, people with cannabis, hemp and marijuana businesses have to stay up on legislation. Mackenzie Maier, 29, owner of Miss Mack's Medibles out of Salem, is a mother of two. Her son has grown up around marijuana like many kids grow up around alcohol...

Candies, cookies and beverages infused with a low dose of cannabinoids, the active ingredients in marijuana, will not be available for recreational consumers for another month or two, the manager of the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program said Monday. Low-dose edibles became legal for...

The long wait for medical marijuana to be legalized in Pennsylvania may be drawing to a close, and Susan Love is thrilled. "It's been an emotional roller-coaster," said the 47-year-old Columbia resident, who spent much of November, December and January at the Capitol urging House members to...

LSU Vice President for Agriculture Bill Richardson said Monday the school is still deciding whether they will accept the responsibility of being the growers of the state's medical marijuana supply. But he said some bills making their way through the Louisiana Legislature that would continue to...

Washington's first official state-sanctioned medical marijuana authorization form isn't sitting well with many medical marijuana patients. At issue is the inclusion of a section requiring patients to list their qualifying condition, something almost universally absent from the ad hoc forms used...

Dana Kelley recalls the exact moment when her neurologist suggested she try medical marijuana. The retired Army Intelligence linguist said it caused her emotional upheaval and led her to question her willingness to continue living in constant pain. Kelley's neck and back were severely...

Dr. Danial Schecter, who started Toronto's Cannabinoid Medical Clinic in 2014 and now has five similar facilities, says doctors in the new office will offer examinations, evaluations, cannabis prescriptions and product advice. Patients must be referred by their doctors, who might not feel...

Medical pot continues to be a hot button issue in Monterey County. On Wednesday cannabis growers from around the county packed the county's planning board meeting, and shared their views on the much anticipated medical marijuana pot ordinance that the county is drafting. The majority of...

The founder of a local medical marijuana centre says the increase of Canadian veterans requesting prescriptions for medical marijuana could be attributed to better knowledge of treatment for soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Trevor Hands, the founder of the first medical...

City officials in Waterville are struggling with finding wording for an ordinance that would restrict medical marijuana businesses downtown, using the city's adult business ordinance as a model. In nearby Fairfield, town officials say their hands are tied by state regulations after neighbors...

The company that opened the borough's first medical marijuana dispensary, the Queens Patient Center in Elmhurst, in January is battling Google over the corporate giant's refusal to carry its advertisements because it used the words "medical marijuana" or "medical cannabis." Vireo Health of...

A Valley grandmother has become an unexpected advocate for a controversial cause. After years of pain from a shoulder injury, Tamar Meyers, 67, and her husband moved to Arizona because of the medical marijuana laws. "It's been a game changer for me because my pain levels had been reduced so...

Rock Hill native Rosemary Wallace suffers from PTSD. Perry Parks, a North Carolina Vietnam veteran, suffers from PTSD and chronic back pain. Janel Ralph's 6-year-old daughter Harmony suffers from lissencephaly, a brain disease that induces daily seizures. Although they live in different...

Three bills that became law earlier this year in California provide the framework for regulating medical marijuana and overhauling the industry across the state. It also allows local counties and cities to tax medical marijuana sales. But the law also leaves major decisions and implementation...

Kansas Democratic Rep. John Wilson never thought he'd take up marijuana as a legislative cause, but the struggles of a family in his district to get medical hemp preparations to treat their son's seizures changed his mind. Wilson, of Lawrence, is pushing for a House measure that would allow...

From ropes and sails to Cheech and Chong, the history of the cannabis plant is long and varied. "We're not talking about something new here, we're talking about something humans have used for at least 10,000 years," University of Nebraska at economics professor Allan Jenkins told the Hub. But...