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A local father's fight to add medical marijuana dispensaries in Georgia continued Monday afternoon at the state capitol in Atlanta. Dale Jackson testified before a judiciary committee in the state House of Representatives. He and his group are currently looking over House Bill 722 and wanted...

The Planning Commission approved a special use permit for High Sierra Cultivation, a medical marijuana grower that had previously been granted a permit to operate at a different Carson City location Wednesday night. The new SUP is for a 13,094 square-foot, existing building on Highway 50 East...

Windsor's first medical marijuana vaping lounge barely had time to open its doors and city officials are talking about finding ways to regulate this type of business. Higher Limits is already buzzing with customers after opening about a week ago, according to co-owner Jon Liedtke, who says he...

A doctor who prescribes medical marijuana is pushing for increased testing and labeling of the drug. The doctor says it would make medical marijuana safer and more consistent for patients. Dr. Dustin Sulak runs a practice in Falmouth. He said medical marijuana should be tested and labeled with...

Columbia Care CEO Nick Vita said being in the medical marijuana business is personal. "It's very hard to watch somebody you care about not have alternatives available to them. This is just another alternative," said Vita. He's seen the business grow into the nation's largest producer and...

A Washington D.C.-based organization wants to put a medical marijuana amendment on Ohio's November ballot. Marijuana Policy Project, founded in 1995, plans to propose a constitutional amendment that would create a medical marijuana system similar to those states that have already legalized...

Three moms, three children suffering from various forms of epilepsy, three different stories trying to share one message: Legalize medicinal oil derived from marijuana. In Alabama, that potential law has been dubbed Leni's Law and state Rep. Mike Ball, R-Huntsville, is the bill's sponsor...

Canadians selling medical marijuana outside the licensed mail-order system must still watch out for the taxman, according to a Federal Court of Appeal ruling that reasserts Ottawa's right to collect sales taxes on any and all pot that is sold. In a unanimous decision released Monday, judges...

Besides holding the distinction of being the only city in Monterey County to have a medical marijuana dispensary, Del Rey Oaks seems poised to be the only city on the Peninsula to allow the cultivation and delivery of marijuana for medicinal purposes. "I anticipate that will be the case,"...

Somewhere off a winding road in Los Altos Hills lives an elderly glaucoma patient anxiously awaiting her next joint. But she won't need to fret about receiving her medical marijuana if the town's planning commissioners get their way — they believe its delivery should be legal and sanctioned. "I...

Amy Young and her family moved to Oregon because the medicine her daughter needs is illegal in Alabama. State Rep. Mike Ball said he plans to introduce a bill next month to change that. And he's confident it's going to pass. "The people I've talked to about it seem very receptive to it,"...

Fact: 44 Americans die every day from prescription-drug overdoses, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "That doesn't happen with cannabis," Caprice Sweatt said Sunday. "Medical cannabis is a safe, legal option." With the legal version of the drug set to debut locally...

Georgia families urged lawmakers on Monday to expand the state's medical marijuana program as critics questioned the rush toward a "substantial change" in state law. The House Judiciary Non-Civil Committee held the first hearing on House Bill 722, which would create up to six licensed...

The Kansas Statehouse isn't known as a place sympathetic to liberalizing drug laws, but then came the stories of Kansas families with hurting children. Tiffanie and Kevin Krentz of Topeka, for example. At 6 months old, their son J.J. suffered his first seizure. It lasted 45 terrifying...

One medical marijuana dispensary keeps running out of cannabis, forcing clients to drive hours to find another open shop. Another has battled mold in its crop. And patients seeking to shop at one of the state's four dispensaries report difficulties with the state's online registration system...

Columbia Care's medical marijuana facility is set to open on Route 3, in Plattsburgh, but officials said marijuana won't be produced at the North Country location. The facility is being operated by Columbia Care, one of five registered organizations operating medical marijuana facilities in...

An administrative law judge said he doesn't have the authority to stop the Department of Health from issuing the final licenses for medical marijuana businesses, despite concerns over whether they should be considered final before administrative proceedings are complete. The Tampa Bay...

Senators Kenny Yuko (D-Richmond Heights) and Dave Burke (R-Marysville) will host the first stop on their medical marijuana listening tour Saturday, Jan. 30 at Cleveland State University. Yuko sat down with newsnet5.com to explain the format of the town hall-style meeting, which will begin at...

With a new Florida Senate Bill, the state may give patients greater access to medical marijuana. To provide a safe, regulated system for medical marijuana disbursement in Florida, Sen. Rob Bradley, R-Fleming Island, discussed Senate Bill 460 at the Senate Fiscal Policy Committee meeting on...

Medicinal cannabis users are looking for rides to a protest site on the New South Wales north coast, claiming they are too fearful to drive themselves. Supporters of the medical use of the drug believe they are vulnerable now police are doing frequent road-side saliva tests. Lismore...