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"Leni's Law" is now formally a bill. State Rep. Mike Ball filed the proposal Tuesday on the first day of the 2016 legislative session that would decriminalize the possession of medicinal marijuana oil that has been prescribed by a doctor. The bill is named for 4-year-old Leni Young, who...

Parents in support of medical marijuana were back at the Capitol Tuesday. "She used to sleep about 16 hours a day and now she's able to stay awake to be interactive," said parent Lisa Smith. Last year, we met Smith and her daughter, Haley, who suffers from a rare disorder called Davet...

Parker Salemme and his twin brother Jackson Salemme were best friends. The North Codorus Township boys were inseparable, according to their mother, Cara Salemme. "My guy was a perfectly normal kiddo," she said In 2011, then-5-year-old Jackson caught a virus, leaving him with a form of...

Maryland delegate and emergency-room physician Dan Morhaim, D-Baltimore County, is co-sponsoring two bills that would expand access to an unlikely pair of hotly debated products with potential health risks: medical marijuana and raw milk. Advocates and opponents packed into the Maryland...

The 30-day window for existing medical marijuana centers to put in a bid to legally operate in in the city launches online March 1, the city's top lawyer said Tuesday. Detroit Corporation Counsel Melvin Butch Hollowell said there are 211 shops operating within the city that have to meet the...

A new medical marijuana dispensary has opened it's doors in Dartmouth. Monday was the first day of business for Tasty Budd's Compassion Club Inc., a wellness clinic located at 958 Cole Harbour Rd. According to owner Mal McMeekin, the dispensary makes it a lot easier for patients with medical...

The owner of a medical marijuana lounge in north-end Halifax wants cannabis products seized in a police raid last year returned to him. Christopher Enns, owner of Farm Assist Cannabis Resource Centre, was in Nova Scotia provincial court this morning to make the demand. Police raided Farm...

The legalization of marijuana for medical use has surfaced as an issue in the Republican primary for the state House District 91 seat in Stokes and Rockingham counties, drawing a clear contrast between two of the candidates. The candidates are incumbent Kyle Hall of King and challenger Ira...

It was 2012, and Douglas Leighton wanted to pour some money into marijuana. Leighton, the co-founder of a Boston-based hedge fund called Dutchess Capital, had done his homework. He saw public opinion shifting in favor of cannabis. Laws had already begun to follow, including the legalization of...

New South Wales's roadside drug testing laws have been thrown into doubt after a magistrate acquitted a man who tested positive for cannabis he had smoked nine days before he was pulled over. Lismore magistrate David Heilpern yesterday found Joseph Ross Carrall not guilty of driving with an...

Some South Dakota lawmakers are attempting to overcome perceptions about hemp's family ties to marijuana to explore the economic potential of the crop with a bill patterned after North Dakota's industrial hemp law. Cultivation of the plant could be a force for economic development in South...

In response to parents who have asked the judiciary committee of the Vermont Senate to help them access certain cannabis-based therapies for their children, committee chair Sen. Dick Sears, D-Bennington County, said language aimed at easing access to the supplements is now being drafted. The...

Some of Canada's biggest producers of medical marijuana want Ottawa to implement advertising regulations similar to those that govern the sale of alcohol, as they await the Liberal government's long-promised legal recreational market. A concerted policy push is underway from Canopy Growth...

Earlier this month, Arizona Rep. Jay Lawrence of the 23rd District introduced HCR 2019, a bill that would make obtaining a medical marijuana card more difficult for medical marijuana users in Arizona. The bill has been withdrawn since Lawrence's proposal. "It will never be heard by a...

The Cannabis Supply Company which will open its doors Saturday is just the beginning for owners Josh Millar and Steve Tota. The Brant County residents, who live in the Burford area, near Norwich, already are looking to expand the Brantford business, which will sell supplies needed by medical...

A months-long shortage of medical marijuana in the District has been eased in recent weeks by new growers moving into the city and a change in the law that doubled the number of plants producers can cultivate, according to buyers and suppliers. The boost in supply has ended rationing and cut...

The medical marijuana oil study ongoing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham is showing near across-the-board reductions in seizures for its patients. Dr. Jerzy Szaflarski, head of the Division of Epilepsy at UAB and one of the principal investigators in the CBD oil study known as...

For the second time in five months, Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner signaled his distaste for broadening the state's new medical marijuana program, declining to add chronic pain and seven other health conditions to the list of diseases that can be treated with the drug. "I didn't know whether to...

Illinois will not expand the list of conditions that qualifies people to get medical marijuana, Gov. Bruce Rauner's administration announced Friday. The announcement came despite pleas from patient advocates and medical marijuana business owners who say they need more patients to make the...

New York state's Medical Marijuana Program started quietly on Jan. 7. It's not clear whether any Cattaraugus County physicians have yet registered with the program, or whether any county residents have been certified elsewhere to participate in the medical marijuana program. "It's a hot...