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Jacqui Ritchie spoke out after appearing at Aberdeen Sheriff Court and admitting producing the plants. The offence took place at her home in Stonehaven's Redcloak Drive on March 8 this year. The court was told that the mum-of-two was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014, and that it turned...

"Please honor your word." This was the call made by medicinal cannabis supporters to President Rodrigo Duterte, who said a year ago that he would not deprive the Filipinos of the medical benefits from cannabis or marijuana. On Facebook, the Philippine Cannabis Compassion Society (PCCS) shared...

The medical marijuana business in Arkansas will not be cash only, as feared by opponents during last year's campaign for the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment. But banking services for the business will be expensive, secretive and legally dubious, according to representatives of the...

Escalating numbers of those addicted to opioids have caused state governments and private industries to explore alternatives for pain control and withdrawal, and viable options are emerging for both those who need to get off painkillers, and those who suffer from intense pain. The Daily...

An update to Pittsburgh's zoning code could establish by October where medical marijuana dispensaries, growers and processors may do business in the city. Legislation introduced by city council last week would direct growers and processors largely toward industrial zones. For dispensaries...

Tennessee's gubernatorial election is still over a year away, but with a newly appointed committee on medical marijuana, Representative Jeremy Faison, R-Cosby, expects cannabis to play a large role in the election. "Obviously we see jobs and infrastructure as probably going to be number one...

For Abbe Kruger, the day she sat bedside with her terminally ill mother was the day she started believing in medical marijuana. Abbe's mother died of pancreatic cancer four years ago after enduring months of pain that Abbe said could have been alleviated by the drug. Now, Abbe has taken...

The CEO of a not-for-profit organization interested in developing a medical marijuana operation in town acknowledges the conversation has only just begun. Robert Schnibbe of Green Harbor Dispensary has requested the town issue a letter of support for the not-for-profit's intention to create a...

Recreational marijuana was legalized in November with the passage of California Proposition 64, but if Palo Alto's Planning and Transportation Commission has its way, pot shops will not open up in the city anytime soon. The commission voted unanimously Wednesday night to recommend continuing...

The planning board OK'd a special permit on Aug. 24 for a medical marijuana dispensary to be run by Newton-based Heal Inc. at the Gately McHoul Funeral Home at 94 Harry Kemp Way – with the condition that it will never sell recreational pot. "A medical marijuana dispensary is what we intend to...

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee often refers to his departments heads as being part of the "city family" – but sometimes the family ties can get a bit complicated. Take the case of Nicole Elliott, the just-named, $149,459-a-year director of the newly created Office of Cannabis. Elliot had been...

Police have uncovered a hydroponic cannabis crop after a suspicious house fire at Prospect was extinguished by firefighters. Firefighters were called to the house on Albert Street in the city's inner-north just after 9:00am and found two rooms in the house ablaze. No-one was home at the...

Lake Tahoe welcomed its first recreational cannabis dispensary in Incline Village this July, but as South Lake Tahoe City Council moves toward a temporary ban of retail sales and with Douglas County's prohibition already in place, it may remain the closest store for South Shore residents – at...

With voters outside the Kenai Peninsula's incorporated cities set to decide in roughly a month whether to allow commercial marijuana operations, cannabis industry supporters and opponents are readying for the vote – one side with public meetings and campaigning, the other with advocacy by...

The use of marijuana by young people and admissions for cannabis-abuse treatment have not increased in Washington state since marijuana was legalized, according to a new analysis by the state Legislature's think tank. Under Initiative 502, the state's legal-marijuana law, the Washington State...

Educating lawmakers and the general public will be a key component of the recently formed legislative committee tasked with tackling medical marijuana, according to one of the legislators heading up the panel. “I think one of the goals is to make sure that the people and the advocates and the...

The presence of a marijuana retail store has caused a deep divide in this quirky tourist town, where hundreds of visitors roam the streets daily browsing in art galleries and souvenir shops housed in historic cabins. Most of Talkeetna's stores line the two long blocks that make up its Main...

When Washington legalized recreational marijuana about five year ago, opponents warned violent crime would increase. Crime statistics tell a different story. The Federal Bureau of Investigation reported that the violent crime rate per capita in the state has gone down steadily since voters...

At long last, Maryland's first legal marijuana crop is growing. With 19 companies cleared to grow, process and sell the plant, the seeds of the medical marijuana program have literally been planted, four years after the state legalized cannabis for medical use. In coming months, plants...

Lake, Geauga and Portage counties will have two medical marijuana dispensaries among them, according to updated maps released Friday by the Ohio Pharmacy Board. That's one more than the counties were originally supposed to get under the Pharmacy Board's initial proposal in July. Northeastern...