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A local company must wait another three months to press its case for receiving a state license to produce medical marijuana. A partnership that includes GrowHealthy, a Lake Wales firm, faces a hearing April 25 before a state administrative law judge. The alliance has challenged the decision of...

The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services has issued a medical marijuana registration certificate for a center in Rochester. Sanctuary ATC is the first to receive department approval to start cultivating medical marijuana in the state. The department is implementing the...

The pace of Illinois patients getting state approval to use medical marijuana has increased. The Illinois Department of Public Health announced Wednesday that it has approved 4,000 patients to use medical marijuana in the state's pilot program. That's 400 more than one month ago, a big jump...

The Hawaii Department of Health's Office of Health Care Assurance has selected BioTrackTHC as the winner apparent for its state contract for tracking the production, transportation and sale of medical marijuana. "The development of a healthy and successful medical cannabis program is a top...

In a strongly worded letter, New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas said Monday that a Department of Health proposal to disclose the identities of licensed nonprofit producers of medical cannabis doesn't go far enough to abide by the state's open records law. Balderas contends that state...

In a surprising move, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signed two bills on Wednesday to establish an "emergency medical marijuana" program for qualified patients, two months before the planned debut of a statewide program providing for the medical use of the drug. The governor's action is an effort to...

In a surprising move, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signed two bills on Wednesday to establish an "emergency medical marijuana" program for qualified patients, two months before the planned debut of a statewide program providing for the medical use of the drug. The governor's action is an effort to...