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Dallas Sainsbury has found little relief in the prescribed medications she was given to battle Crohn's disease. "I've lost like upwards of 25 pounds, I've spent a good majority of the past six months in bed. I had to withdraw from school," Sainsbury said. The University of Utah student has...

State lawmakers are moving to keep people from using their welfare benefits to purchase medical marijuana, at least directly. But they've given up in their bid to keep the drug away from pregnant women. The first measure, HB 2261, is an attempt by Rep. Kate Brophy McGee, R-Phoenix, to plug...

With two medical marijuana bills currently before the Utah State Legislature, one Orem family hopes it will have the chance to continue helping one of its youngest members, but without committing a felony. Aaron and Emily Campbell had five children together, three of whom were diagnosed with...

A Camp Hill man says he had a choice: die or break the law. He decided to risk arrest by illegally using medical marijuana. He shared his story with ABC27 three months ago. It went viral and was shared over 10,000 times on Facebook. ABC27 hid his identity to protect him and his family. Now...

Conceding that the Utah Legislature is unlikely to pass a bill legalizing medical marijuana, Utah patients who have been using the plant along with backers of legal cannabis -– including several wealthy and well-connected Utah businessmen – plan to launch a ballot initiative that would let...

A Queensland company is calling on the State Government to change the law preventing industrial hemp from being produced for human consumption. Under Queensland's Drugs Misuse Act, it is illegal to produce cannabis seeds for the manufacture of products that can be consumed, smoked or applied...

Industrial hemp appears to have great economic potential for the region, but it sounds like it will not simply happen overnight. Approximately 80 interested local residents, including several from the Yuma area, attended an informational meeting Monday night at the Otis school. It was organized...

As South Dakota lawmakers debate whether to allow farmers in the state to grow industrial hemp, the first North Dakota producers are preparing for their first growing season under a state-run pilot program. Adrian, N.D., producer Jamie Edwards and his dad, Lyle Edwards, account for two of five...

Nine out of ten people have backed calls for cannabis to be legalised for recreational use in an Evening Mail poll. Westmorland and Lonsdale MP and Liberal Democrat leader, Tim Farron, is expected to become the first leader of a major political party to call for the class B drug to be made...

Danish businessman and entrepreneur Klaus Riskær Pedersen is involved in a new business venture in Uruguay in the area of medical cannabis. Pedersen, along with six partners, has invested in Nube Serena, a company that cultivates the plants for medical purposes. "Medical cannabis in 2016 is...

A group of community members are hosting an open forum to hear your opinions and concerns on the legalization of cannabis in the state of Louisiana. They're hoping to spark the interest of many to move the topic forward in a statewide vote. The use of medical marijuana is currently legal...

This is no psychedelic head shop, and it's no drab doctor's office either. The medical-marijuana dispensary that Patriot Care will officially open Tuesday will be a nondescript, highly-secure, modern center that company officials say is about just one thing: treating patients who need...

Marijuana is legal in some capacity in 23 states and the District of Columbia, but Facebook doesn't seem to "like" it very much these days. Over the past two weeks, the social media giant has reportedly been shutting down the Facebook pages of state-legal cannabis businesses across the...

A medical marijuana center has expressed interest in moving to town. Town Manager Michael Yunits said he and Beth Wierling, the town's director of planning and economic development, met with Beacon Compassion Center about the company's interest in bringing either a dispensary or distribution...

After a major traffic accident nearly crippled him, Anthony Schiozzi spent years searching for pain relief. He tried surgery, but it didn't work. A second surgery could happen soon, but doctors don't believe it will end the chronic pain that has made it difficult for the 39-year-old former...

The Sacramento branch of the California tax collection agency reeks of marijuana. That's because it's cash day at the collection center — when marijuana dispensary owners are allowed to bring in paper money to pay their quarterly sales tax bill — and the smell of their inventory clings to...

A driver who used marijuana for medical purposes four days before driving has been caught by the NSW government's push on drug driving, in laws that have been blasted by a magistrate as "a mystery". The case is one of several that have come to light questioning the accuracy of a current NSW...

Eric Howard takes great pride in his "ladies," each of which can yield up to 16 ounces of medical cannabis in a 16-week life cycle. "They get so heavy, they fall over right at the end," said Howard, master grower at an 11-acre growing facility in Bernalillo owned by Ultra Health LLC. A trellis...

Duke Rodriguez, principal of Ultra Health LLC, first became involved in the medical cannabis industry around 2013 in Arizona. He purchased the 11-acre marijuana-growing facility in Bernalillo in August 2014 on behalf of an Arizona corporation called Zoned Properties Inc., a real estate company...

Kieran McCrory (37) has been advised by doctors he has between three and five years to live. Last week in a BBC interview Kieran claimed that since using illegal cannabis oil in his drinks and food, doctors have told him that his tumour had stopped growing. It has not been proven...