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It's brisk business on a Wednesday morning at Magnolia Wellness center, a medical marijuana dispensary in downtown Oakland. Although it's legal to smoke marijuana in California now for recreational purposes, medicinal cannabis isn't going away anytime soon. But have these patients ever talked...

The smell of unsmoked "nuggets" wafted through the air outside the State House Thursday, as a small group of pot enthusiasts who had gathered to celebrate marijuana being legal brazenly gave away portions of the leafy drug. When a man passed Rachel Ramone Donlan a clear bag of pot seeds, and...

Dani Geen was 18 when she was in a severe accident: the car spun violently and was smashed on all four sides. The force of the seatbelt broke all of Geen's ribs and caused internal abscesses. She came to in an ambulance, panicking from pain and shock, and felt the sharp stab of a needle–the...

Rich and Kim Muszynski know when their 5-year-old daughter, Abby, is about to have a grand mal seizure because her pupils enlarge, and she'll seem to fixate at something in the distance that only she can see. Then it starts. Abby's extremities shake. She gasps for air. By the time she...

Kim and Richard Muszynski love Florida. They love the beaches and the fishing and the beautiful weather and the Sunday afternoon barbecues with their large extended family. Rich has lived in Florida all his life and Kim since she was 6 years old. But in September, the couple left the...

Did you know that many children who have received the Gardasil vaccine have also been affected by leukemia and other diseases? In one shocking case, a 6-week old baby in New Zealand was accidentally injected with the vaccine due to extreme medical negligence. Little Chace Topperwein...

Despite the promise of landlords and housing authorities having the right to ban homegrown marijuana under the new voter-approved recreational use law, there are still concerns about cultivation and use in those settings. The law will go into effect Dec. 15, barring a delay. George C...

Paola, 23, came to California for the first time this fall. A native of Mexico City and a pot smoker since she was 15, she worked for 12 weeks as a "trimmer" in California's multibillion-dollar-a-year marijuana industry - even more legal now after the passage of Proposition 64. But still illegal...

On a quiet, rain-soaked block of Geary Boulevard in the Inner Richmond last month, in the back lounge of a chic medical marijuana retail store called Harvest, a middle-aged pot farmer named Lourdes was doing brisk business. A constant stream of well-to-do patrons with medical pot cards milled...

Michele Lazor was on bed rest for about five years, for about 22 to 24 hours a day, and was taking 50 pills a day, she said, to deal with her disease. Lazor, who is from Troy, suffered from Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, in which people "usually have overly flexible joints and stretchy, fragile...

On a typical day, Daphnée Elisma will fire up her vaporizer and inhale roughly three grams of marijuana. She can go through a quarter-pound of weed a month, spending about $500 in the process. But Elisma, 41, isn't what you might call a burnout. She's in her third year of law school...

Every fall, waves of transient pot trimmers descend on the rural North Coast looking for work during the lucrative marijuana harvest season, and that annual influx - unorganized and sometimes unruly - is fueling widening tensions with residents just as the state's pot industry is poised for a...

Twin Falls - Kelsey Osborne waved a sign outside the Twin Falls County Courthouse: "Illegal does not equal injury." She was joined by 10 others including Serra Frank, founding director of Moms for Marijuana International, who held a sign that said, "Parents beware CPS is corrupted...

St. Augustine, Fla. — Priscilla de la Cruz sits on an armchair in Isabela's Bar Cuba where she is helping open the shop for a friend. She wears a yellow sweatshirt decorated with a lion made out of marijuana. Her hair short from the chemotherapy. She has secondary stage-four lung cancer and...

A meet-up group comprised of vocational, registered nurses and nurse practitioners interested in training and expanding their knowledge of treatments for medical marijuana patients has started to meet in Mendocino County in the hope of creating an official local chapter of a national non-profit...

So my little girl just recently within the past week, had started to show me some weird signs. I have been on YouTube, and PLENTY of other grow sites/forums (not near as AWESOME as here), studying what people have to say about the issue that she has been trying to tell me she is having...

The streets of Cremona are nearly deserted as snow falls in late November and the 457 people of this village are mostly busy at work or keeping warm at home. It's a quiet place, with not much traffic turning off of the nearby Highway 22, which connects the much larger towns of Sundre to the...

Grand Rapids, MI — A doctor who told a patient's employer she used medical marijuana isn't to blame for subjecting the woman to an employee substance-abuse policy, Spectrum Heath Systems said. The marijuana reference was contained in a doctor's report authorizing medical leave for Lisa...

Even the mayor was there. On Wednesday night, Rainforest Farms made the first legal sale of marijuana in Juneau and the first in Alaska off the state's road system. The sale took place at an invite-only opening for Juneau's first retail marijuana shop, but when more than 50 smiling people...

The Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) has been asked by Mr Harris to provide an expert opinion on medicinal cannabis and any policy and legislative changes needed. HPRA chief executive Lorraine Nolan told an Oireachtas Committee on Health that a group of medical experts would be...