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Some medical marijuana patients in Illinois say the drug has allowed them to reduce or eliminate their use of other prescription medication, a new study reports. The study by DePaul and Rush universities was small, with 30 participants, and involved only those who volunteered to respond to...

Alex Roth has gotten into the habit of pulling out his cellphone and showing skeptical friends a screen shot of the classes he'll have to take to get his bachelor of science degree from Northern Michigan University. "When they hear what my major is, there are a lot of people who say, 'Wow...

The 85 words almost seemed an afterthought when Congress hurriedly crammed them into a massive budget bill late in the Obama administration, as if lawmakers wanted to acknowledge America's outlook on marijuana had changed, but not make a big deal of it. Almost three years later, a...

The black market will continue in Alberta if the province goes with a government-run sales model for recreational marijuana when it's legalized next year, predicts a mid-level dealer who has been selling dope in Calgary for nearly 20 years. "If it goes Ontario's model, I become richer," said...

Fifty-eight percent of residents say they would support allowing a properly regulated medical marijuana dispensary to open in town, an online poll found as the City Council prepares to decide whether to allow one. But many residents who live near an east Livermore industrial zone identified...

Sheffield farmer Ted Dobson wants to grow pot -- and he doesn't believe he needs an indoor warehouse with a state-of-the-art security system to do it. "Having protected myself from wildlife for years and, if necessary, people, no farmer's going to allow any cash crop to get stolen," Dobson...

Last fall, Nevada legalized recreational marijuana, becoming the third state bordering Idaho to do so and opening the possibility that pot will soon be sold legally a short drive from Twin Falls. So far, Idaho has stood fast against the trend of liberalizing marijuana laws sweeping...

Former NHL player Riley Cote says marijuana helped him deal with the pain and anxiety that came with being an enforcer with the Philadelphia Flyers. "I used it as an ally," the Winnipeg native said Saturday at Grow Up Cannabis Conference and Expo at the Scotiabank Convention Centre in Niagara...

A Potomac attorney said he's ready to open Montgomery County's first medical marijuana dispensary as soon as the state's first batch of pot products is ready. The shop, Potomac Holistics, will sell oils, tinctures and balms from a second-floor suite just off Darnestown Road in the Shady Grove...

A woman jailed for importing cannabis has had sentence reduced by eight months – but the court refused a request to increase the sentence of a second woman for drugs offences. Valisa Holder appealed against a 2½-year sentence imposed in Magistrates' Court, while the Crown asked to have the...

As the number of coal mining jobs continues to decline in central Appalachia, hemp is getting a lot of attention as one way to diversify eastern Kentucky's post-coal economy. But the region's burgeoning hemp industry is also riddled with uncertainty. The lack of land suitable for growing hemp...

Indiana Excise Police have continued citing retailers selling a cannabis extract after saying they'd stop confiscating the product. The state's Alcohol and Tobacco Commission announced the moratorium on cannabidiol confiscations Aug. 12, The Indianapolis Star reported . Records show that...

On Monday, a marijuana newsletter's account was temporarily suspended by the email marketing service Mailchimp. Like others who work in digital media, Shea Gunther gets antsy about missing deadlines. When the Monday edition of MJToday Daily failed to send, he discovered that the email service...

Following in the footsteps of their closest neighbors, city leaders are slamming the door on the cannabis industry – at least temporarily. The Planning Commission recommended that Pleasant Hill allow two medical marijuana stores to operate in retail business districts with a conditional use...

Cicero police came upon the largest marijuana growth operation they've seen when they searched a home Thursday, officials said. Inside, they found 68 full grown marijuana plants -- each about 4 feet tall -- and several plastic buckets of dried plants ready to be harvested and packaged...

Richard Hackler recently drove five-plus hours round trip from his home in Vero Beach to St. Petersburg, hoping to find out if medical marijuana could help with his post traumatic stress disorder. But the doctor he traveled to see seemed just as uninformed as the other physicians he had...

Merced County Sheriff's deputies heard a buzzing as they approached a home Thursday night south of Delhi. The sound, as deputies found out after investigating the home in the 16300 block of Oak Street, came from generators helping run machines to grow 1,692 budding marijuana plants, Sgt Ray...

Dr. Aida Cuascut-Reyes says she's haunted by the screams of a patient whose rectal cancer caused such excruciating pain that not even morphine could ease her suffering. Cuascut-Reyes wishes the woman had lived long enough to be treated with medical marijuana. Based on her experience with...

While lawmakers in Montpelier argue over marijuana legalization, Middlebury dairy farmers Joel Pomainville and Sam Berthiaume are readying harvest of a cousin of marijuana – hemp – that promoters hope could be a new cash crop for Vermont farmers. "The potential is so huge on this stuff," said...

Southern California's Lawrence Serbin has traveled the world to bring hemp fiber products to Americans. But now that industrial hemp is legal to grow in California, he sees new business opportunities and is eyeing the small Fresno County farming community of Riverdale for a hemp-processing...