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A Cook County Judge has ordered the Illinois Department of Public Health to add Post-Operative Chronic Pain to the list of disorders treatable with medical cannabis. In a blistering order, Cook County Judge Neil Cohen told the Director of the State Department of Public Health, Dr. Nirav Shah...

Lansing, Mich. - A group trying to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in Michigan has failed to persuade a judge to put the question on the fall ballot. Court of Claims Judge Stephen Borrello said Tuesday there's nothing unconstitutional about a time limit on petition signatures. A...

A judge in Kalispell has denied a petition to put a measure banning medical marijuana on the November ballot. Secretary of State Linda McCulloch's office says Initiative 176 received 20,038 certified signatures, around 4,000 short of qualifying. But sponsor Steve Zabawa, director of...

A judge in Kalispell has denied a petition to put a measure banning medical marijuana on the November ballot. Secretary of State Linda McCulloch's office says Initiative 176 received 20,038 certified signatures, around 4,000 short of qualifying. But sponsor Steve Zabawa, director of...

Opponents of legalizing marijuana in Arizona said Friday they would appeal to the state Supreme Court after a judge dismissed their bid to block a statewide vote. Earlier Friday, a Maricopa County judge rejected the legal challenge by Arizonans for Responsible Drug Policy to an initiative that...

An attorney for the group seeking to legalize recreational use of marijuana told a judge this afternoon she can't keep the measure off the ballot even if she believes it is confusing or fraudulent. Roy Herrera is not conceding that the 9,900-word initiative is either. He also said that...

A Denver District Court judge has dealt Starbuds a setback in its fight against the city's first-ever denial of a routine cultivation license renewal. In late June, the city's top licensing official sided with neighbors in Elyria-Swansea who argued that the marijuana chain's small...

A federal magistrate judge has rebuffed a challenge to federal laws that place marijuana among the nation's most dangerous drugs and do not acknowledge the growing research into its medicinal benefits. In his ruling, U.S. Magistrate Judge Jonathan Feldman noted that "there can be no dispute...

Phoenix - In a case that would set new legal precedents, the Arizona Supreme Court will rule Monday whether the odor of marijuana is enough to give police legal reason for a search. The justices will decide whether the fact that voters in 2010 made marijuana legal for some people to possess...

Reversing his original order in a case involving five children taken by the Department of Children and Families, a Riley County, Kansas judge has allowed use of medical cannabis by the children's parents. Writing that visitation with the children can continue even if the parents test positive...

Maybe a stupid question to ask with a picture but I am wondering if my girl is ready to harvest. I've ready that you can judge by eye sight (roughly) if the 70% of the hairs have turned brown. Alternatively and more accurately you can judge by using a magnifier (which I dont own) on the...

Nevada's medical marijuana registration program is constitutional, a Clark County judge has ruled. In a 38-page order filed Friday, District Judge Rob Bare also determined the state is legally immune from related claims of fraud and unjust enrichment. "The court may not judge the wisdom or...

After 16 months of a criminal and family court battle, an Ottawa County Circuit Court Judge dismissed the felony charges against a Spring Lake father and card-carrying medical marijuana patient for having "synthetic THC." Friday Max Lorincz was in court for multiple hearings regarding his...

A federal judge day dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Fourth Corner Credit Union against the Federal Reserve in hopes of providing banking services to the legal cannabis industry. In his ruling, Judge R. Brooke Jackson said Congress must provide the answer, stating, "I regard the [cannabis...

One of legal marijuana's biggest hurdles will be discussed this morning as a federal judge considers a Colorado credit union's arguments for allowing marijuana banking services. Fourth Corner Credit Union, which was "constructed from the ground up to serve the interests of the legalized cannabis...