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Heather Marie Brown has been waiting for years for Aug. 27, 2017, to arrive. That's the day when she will finally be able to treat her PTSD with the drug of her choice — without breaking the law. On Aug. 27, House Bill 160, which adds PTSD to the list of qualifying conditions for therapeutic...

No one has to tell David Mitchell about the positive effects medicinal marijuana can have on a person's quality of life. Mitchell has seen it work wonders for his 7-year-old son, Ashton, who has epilepsy and cerebral palsy, is blind and nonverbal and uses a wheelchair. "Prior to the...

A push to give military veterans access to medical marijuana was shot down this month by Congress, but U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., vowed the fight is far from over. Titus, a staunch supporter of medicinal cannabis, said she believes the move last week was a concession to Attorney General...

Medical marijuana dispensaries are likely to play a key role in the retail weed supply chain when legal sales finally begin next July, the key lawmakers behind the state's revamped marijuana bill tell the Herald. "They're going to be knocking down the doors for licenses," bill cosponsor Rep...

This spring, 16 state patrol officers from Colorado and Wyoming took a couple days off their usual work schedule to do something special. They assembled in a hotel conference room in Denver. As instructed, they wore street clothes for their first assignment: going shopping at nearby marijuana...

This school year, children who rely on medical marijuana for a variety of ailments may be allowed to use the drug at school. On June 23, Gov. Rick Scott signed legislation that established the framework for medical marijuana in Florida. In addition to legalizing cannabis oils, pills and...

Off a small service road at Kentland Farm, Virginia Tech graduate student Jabari Byrd is growing cannabis with his professor. Now this plot isn't part of any illicit plan. It's a piece of research at Tech that's leading the state into a new era of studying industrial hemp, and it's fully...

Why make a whiskey with hemp seeds? Why not, is the answer from one Colorado craft distillery owner. "I started to play around with the idea of using hemp," said Bryan Phillips, owner of Coal Creek Distillery in Crested Butte. And with that idea, his problems getting it approved for sale...

More than 80 Vermonters are now registered to grow industrial hemp this year, state officials said. Hemp farming appears to be on the rise three years after legalization, Vermont Public Radio reported. But, there were some difficulties. John Williamson, of State Line Farm in North...

The sometimes illicit relationship between brownies and pot has weathered decades. But now cannabis has begun expanding its horizons and has added all sorts of other partners. As laws and social acceptance of marijuana changes, possible culinary pairings now include caramels, cookies, mints...

The city of Davis has approved of the first cannabis manufacturing facility in the city. Blessed Extracts will produce wholesale products in a non-descriptive laboratory located on the 2100 block of 2nd Street in the Davis Commerce Park. The company will also conduct research and testing...

In the wake of a statewide expansion of medical marijuana dispensaries, at least two companies have expressed interest in opening a dispensary in Hartford, and local officials say they have no objection. "I'm personally not against having a dispensary in our community," said Rebecca White, a...

In some circles, Jessica Andreavich is known as the Robin Hood of Delaware's medical marijuana community. But to law enforcement and others, she is a drug dealing felon who gamed the system. For years, the activist and medicinal marijuana cardholder turned the plant form of the drug into...

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said Friday he remained wary of the impact legalized recreational marijuana might have on the state, yet hopeful that revisions made in the voter-approved law would ease some of his biggest concerns. The Republican spoke after signing a compromise bill...

The list of companies wanting to break into Ohio's budding medical marijuana business includes major players on the national and international stage with experience and access to financing that gives them an edge, according to industry experts and insiders. The only details state officials...

A sixth medical marijuana dispensary will be operating in New Jersey by the end of the year after the state granted a long-delayed license to the Harmony Foundation on Thursday to grow cannabis in Secaucus. The nonprofit's application had been pending since 2011. The facility will be housed...

Off through a dirt road, hidden in the hills of Willow Creek, sits Humboldt Edge, a medical cannabis farm that recently got permitted by Humboldt County. Owners, Samantha Shull and Matt Nagel, a married couple, said they were the second business in the county to submit a completed...

Chairperson of the Cannabis Licensing Authority (CLA), Hyacinth Lightbourne, says regulations being developed to guide a legal hemp industry in Jamaica should be in place next year. She made the disclosure during a session on medical marijuana at the Jamaica 55 Diaspora Conference on Tuesday...

Industrial hemp - it has a long history, but has only been in the Grand Valley for a few years. However, it has potential of growing into a multimillion dollar industry. "It's life changing. Every single day, we're finding more and more uses for it. Hemp was so widely used back in the day...

The Sandwich Board of Selectmen said "no" Thursday night, July 27, to a medical marijuana dispensary that was seeking to open a business in a Sandwich medical office park off Route 130. The 3-2 vote came after an hour-long public hearing during which members of the public asked pointed...