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The activist who spearheaded the grassroots campaign to legalize medical marijuana in Pennsylvania has been hired by the state to serve as the patient liaison for the Department of Health's cannabis program. Latrisha "Lolly" Bentch, 37, was a founding member of Campaign for Compassion, a...

The activist who spearheaded the grassroots campaign to legalize medical marijuana in Pennsylvania has been hired by the state to serve as the patient liaison for the Department of Health's cannabis program. Latrisha "Lolly" Bentch, 37, was a founding member of Campaign for Compassion, a...

Alcohol exits the body in a matter of hours. Cocaine can take a couple of days. Cannabis has no exact timetable. The cannabis compound detectable in urine samples is evidence of past use, not actual impairment, said Dr. Alan Shackelford, a Harvard Medical School-trained physician who...

Alcohol exits the body in a matter of hours. Cocaine can take a couple of days. Cannabis has no exact timetable. The cannabis compound detectable in urine samples is evidence of past use, not actual impairment, said Dr. Alan Shackelford, a Harvard Medical School-trained physician who...

Rhonda O'Donnell was the woman in the wheelchair, one of the more visible faces of the medical marijuana movement. But it was actually her son and his college friends who got the program off the ground. While his mother, a Warwick nurse suffering from multiple sclerosis, captured the media...

Rhonda O'Donnell was the woman in the wheelchair, one of the more visible faces of the medical marijuana movement. But it was actually her son and his college friends who got the program off the ground. While his mother, a Warwick nurse suffering from multiple sclerosis, captured the media...

Washington - After getting busted himself, Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes says it's time for Americans to have an "overdue conversation" about marijuana in the workplace. On July 8, 2014, the first day that retail stores began selling marijuana in Washington state, Holmes went to Cannabis...

Del. Cheryl D. Glenn is co-author of the Maryland state law that permits the use of marijuana for medical purposes. She says that measure needs an overhaul. Michael Bronfein is chief executive of a company that was awarded one of the state's 15 licenses to grow medical marijuana. He says the...

Del. Cheryl D. Glenn is co-author of the Maryland state law that permits the use of marijuana for medical purposes. She says that measure needs an overhaul. Michael Bronfein is chief executive of a company that was awarded one of the state's 15 licenses to grow medical marijuana. He says the...

With Democrats favored to take back the governorship next year, the only two people left in the running for the party's nomination favor full-scale legalization of marijuana. That makes it more likely to happen in early 2018, which is when, Senate President Stephen Sweeney predicts, the...

A former carpenter who was jailed for growing cannabis plants has been freed after judges heard he was smoking the drug to relieve rheumatic pain. Raymond Forbes, aged 54, of Fir Tree Avenue, Tile Hill , was jailed for two years and three months at Warwick Crown Court on June 28. Police...

Twenty-five states allow medicinal marijuana in the United States, and the closest state to us that allows it is Ohio, but Georgia passed a law last year and is next in line. Now one Republican Tennessee State Representative wants to make it legal here at home. Representative Faison, from...

Twenty-five states allow medicinal marijuana in the United States, and the closest state to us that allows it is Ohio, but Georgia passed a law last year and is next in line. Now one Republican Tennessee State Representative wants to make it legal here at home. Representative Faison, from...

Victoria's Mayor says the city plans to follow Vancouver's footsteps in clamping down hard on unregulated marijuana dispensaries. The city handed out its first fine to Green Ceiling for allowing consumption on site last Friday. Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps says dispensaries who don't comply...

Nov. 8 will be a critical juncture for U.S. marijuana laws, with five states to consider legalization of recreational use. Giuliano D'Orazio, 24, of Worcester, said he'll vote in favor of the Massachusetts ballot question, which will ask Bay State voters to decide if use, growth and...

When Lisa Mastramico needed relief for her ailing tabby, Little Kitty, she turned to an unlikely source: marijuana. At 12 years old, the cat had arthritis. For a long while she spent her days hiding in a closet, where Ms. Mastramico had built her a bed of plush blankets. After trying various...

Arizona - Law enforcement officials are warning that Arizona's ballot initiative to legalize recreational marijuana is too lenient on kids who are caught trying to buy pot. "We would be sending the wrong message to youth," said Bill Montgomery, who is the Maricopa County Attorney. Under...

As a citizen of a progressive city like Missoula, it pains me to drive down Brooks and see an oversize billboard urging citizens to further prohibit access to medical marijuana in Montana. In fairness, the billboard is a gift from Safe Montana, an anti-medical marijuana movement stationed in...

Pigs get fat, hogs got slaughtered, and employers who unreasonably try to run the private lives of their employees eventually pay for it. Amid efforts to understand why the NFL's TV audience is shrinking, there's one reason that unnecessarily is keeping some of the best young players off the...

Around the time that the Maryland legislature's longtime champion for medical cannabis joined a company looking to dispense the drug, he urged state regulators to remove a restriction on the sale of edible marijuana products. Two months later, Del. Dan K. Morhaim sought feedback from regulators...