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Pennsylvania's new medical marijuana law lets patients use the drug to treat a broader set of conditions – including post-traumatic stress disorder and autism – than many other states with medical marijuana programs, while at the same time restricting the drug's use more tightly than some other...

An amendment was added to the Veterans Affairs appropriations bill that would allow America's disabled soldiers to be prescribed marijuana, but it's an uphill battle for this commonsense measure to become law. On Thursday, the US Senate Appropriations Committee approved an amendment that would...

The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday passed an amendment that would let Veterans Affairs doctors discuss and recommend marijuana as a potential medical treatment in states where it is legal. An addition to the fiscal 2017 Military Construction, Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies...

A bill passed this week by the Senate Health and Welfare Committee would expand the number of conditions that would qualify Louisiana patients to get medical marijuana once the drug is available. There's still plenty of questions about who will produce the drug and where it'll be dispensed...

It's no secret that public support for marijuana legalization is on the rise, but there's common ground where even prohibitionists can sometimes meet supporters of recreational pot: the medical benefits of the plant. So far, 23 states have passed legislative measures to legalize medical...

The marijuana legalization movement has won a string of successes in the last five years, and they could be about to put another feather in their cap – a pro-marijuana president. Marijuana decriminalization is no longer a partisan issue, with reformers and advocates for the status quo on both...

In what was generally considered to be the biggest challenge to Colorado's recreational cannabis laws to date, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a motion by the states of Nebraska and Oklahoma seeking to file a Bill of Complaint, effectively refusing to hear the arguments brought against the State...

Illinois medical marijuana dispensaries opened their doors for the first time in November last year. Since then, they're raked in more $4.4 million in sales to nearly 5,000 medical marijuana users across the state. The pilot program is about halfway done, but some medical marijuana patients...

Currently, thirty-nine states, the District of Columbia, and Guam all have some form of legalized marijuana. At bare minimum, most of those states have some sort of medical marijuana program that allows pot to be prescribed for everything from pain relief to multiple sclerosis. Yet, for the...

According to cannabis research firm ArcView Market Research, legal marijuana is the fastest growing industry in the United States, and it very well could keep this title, or stay very near the top in terms of growth for years to come. Marijuana's mammoth momentum The latest report from...

Pennsylvania could soon become the 24th state to legalize medical marijuana. On Wednesday, the Pennsylvania House passed an amended version of a Senate-passed medical marijuana bill, and the Senate and Gov. Tom Wolf have signaled that they will soon approve the legislation, turning it into law...

A marijuana advocate and talk show host on the Valley-based Cannabis Radio Network has a target on his back. Literally. "Radical" Russ Belville, host of the Russ Belville Show, has a map of the United States tattooed from shoulder to shoulder. States that have legalized recreational use of...

The legalisation of marijuana in a small number of US states has had a bonus side-effect: hurting the pockets of the Mexican drug cartels who illegally supply much of the drug to the country. The US Border Patrol reported a nearly 9 per cent decrease in marijuana seizures in 2015 from 2014...

A study published today in Health Affairs found that while 14 of the nation's 24 medical marijuana programs were essentially nonmedical in practice, they enrolled more than 99 percent of overall participants. Fewer than one percent were enrolled in "medicalized" programs that adhere to accepted...

Legal marijuana is becoming more and more entrenched in the United States each year, and 2016 looks to be no exception. In fact, some observers say it could be a "tipping point" for an ever-growing industry already worth billions of dollars. By the end of the year, nearly a dozen states...

Though marijuana is as accessible as it's ever been, thanks in part to large-scale political pushes and legalization efforts, huge swaths of the country still can't get their hands on it. And that's a monstrous issue, particularly for those who need medical marijuana or its derivatives to live...

Although marijuana is still defined by the Drug Enforcement Administration as a drug "with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse," the tide towards legalization appears to be shifting. 23 states and the District of Columbia have enacted legislation to legalize medical...

In a case drawing nationwide attention as it involves a killing, a group of armed ranchers in Oregon occupied federal land for weeks in protest of grazing fees and fines for grazing without a permit. They were getting a pretty decent deal from the Federal Bureau of Land Management on the grazing...

Ohioans might get to vote on legalizing medical marijuana this fall. So what do you need to know? What's the difference between medical marijuana and marijuana? What medical conditions is it used to treat? Do you smoke it? After a recreational marijuana measure failed in Ohio last year...

The new year has brought reasons to celebrate for medical marijuana proponents. A flurry of activity occurred at the end of 2015, including Congressional passage of the Rohrabacker-Farr amendment (H.R. 83, Sec. 538)1 and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) easing restrictions for medical...