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Medical marijuana is a hot-button issue across the country and Florida is now one step closer to implementing a 2014 law that allows a medicinal form of the plant to be grown and sold in the state. The Florida Department of Health announced this week that several organizations across the...

Medical marijuana is a hot-button issue across the country and Florida is now one step closer to implementing a 2014 law that allows a medicinal form of the plant to be grown and sold in the state. The Florida Department of Health announced this week that several organizations across the...

The health ministry in Skopje told BIRN that it is carrying out wide-ranging consultations about making marijuana treatments available to people suffering from serious illnesses "We are consulting experts, specialist doctors from various fields, pharmacologists, representatives of civil...

The health ministry in Skopje told BIRN that it is carrying out wide-ranging consultations about making marijuana treatments available to people suffering from serious illnesses "We are consulting experts, specialist doctors from various fields, pharmacologists, representatives of civil...

As public acceptance of marijuana use grows in the United States, nationwide arrests for simple possession of pot have dropped in recent years. New Jersey is going in the opposite direction. Marijuana arrests in the state jumped 10 percent in 2012 and 2013, according to the latest New Jersey...

Grace can finally sleep through the night without being awakened by one of her epileptic crises since the eight-year-old Mexican girl started taking cannabis-based medicine a month ago. Her parents have seen a marked improvement in their daughter's conditions since she became the first person...

Dozens of people attended the Awaken America Cannabis Conference in Sacramento. The event focused on the use of medical marijuana, specifically for seniors and cancer patients. Many attendees shared their stories. "I vomited for 15 straight months and lost 53 pounds," user Sioux Colombe...

Proponents of medical marijuana have banded together in another grassroots effort under the name of Green the Vote. Petitions for State Question 778 are in the hands of volunteers and select businesses, and 123,725 legal signatures must be turned into the state by Dec. 29. The initiative...

Proponents of medical marijuana have banded together in another grassroots effort under the name of Green the Vote. Petitions for State Question 778 are in the hands of volunteers and select businesses, and 123,725 legal signatures must be turned into the state by Dec. 29. The initiative...

The state proposed new standards Friday for measuring contaminants in medical marijuana, paving the way for widening access to the drug. The new protocols, to take effect next spring, would revise existing limits on the amount of heavy metals, solvents, and hydrocarbons allowed in medical...

You can buy beer and cigarettes at the gas station. So why not marijuana? Well, now you can in Colorado Springs, so can we expect such a business venture to land in Fort Collins? The possibility exists. Native Roots, one of the biggest marijuana dispensary companies in Colorado...

Every month, Randy Huff, owner of a medical marijuana dispensary, writes a check for about $500 to the city of La Pine. Huff owns Green Knottz, one of two dispensaries in the central Oregon community where leaders last spring decided to impose a 5 percent tax on medical marijuana...

Every month, Randy Huff, owner of a medical marijuana dispensary, writes a check for about $500 to the city of La Pine. Huff owns Green Knottz, one of two dispensaries in the central Oregon community where leaders last spring decided to impose a 5 percent tax on medical marijuana...

A state senator filed a bill recently that replaces Florida's current medical marijuana program. Sen. Jeff Brandes, R-St. Petersburg, said his bill is a free-market approach that stops only a few from cornering this new industry. The current program will eventually award licenses that...

A state senator filed a bill recently that replaces Florida's current medical marijuana program. Sen. Jeff Brandes, R-St. Petersburg, said his bill is a free-market approach that stops only a few from cornering this new industry. The current program will eventually award licenses that...

Two applications for new medical marijuana dispensaries are pending in Madras, and if approved and opened, would give the Jefferson County community five dispensaries. Owners of three of the dispensaries hope to convert them to recreational marijuana shops, but they might not get the chance...

Nanaimo medical marijuana dispensaries will remain open, despite the threat of police enforcement. Medical marijuana dispensaries have reached out to government for clarity on potential new regulations and help in the lead-up to a deadline to stop selling marijuana. But dispensaries have no...

The state House rules committee voted 25-8 in favor of a bill to legalize medical marijuana in Pennsylvania. The bill still requires a vote by the full House. Gov. Tom Wolf has said he will sign a bill. The committee approved the Senate bill authored by state Sen. Mike Folmer, R-Lebanon...

The state House rules committee voted 25-8 in favor of a bill to legalize medical marijuana in Pennsylvania. The bill still requires a vote by the full House. Gov. Tom Wolf has said he will sign a bill. The committee approved the Senate bill authored by state Sen. Mike Folmer, R-Lebanon...

An unmistakeable scent, rotten-sweet and earthy, greets visitors to Basil McMahon's pine and oak sheltered Nevada County farm. It wafts from cannabis plants growing in a murky legal terrain between acceptance and prohibition. Over the next few years that will change, as a sweeping new...