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Albany, N.Y. - New York is considering expanding its 9-month-old medical marijuana program by adding more growers and allowing home delivery. The state Health Department has issued a report recommending ways the program can be improved. Some of those recommendations include: Registering...

New York medical marijuana distributors have yet to make a profit eight months after medical pot went legal in the Empire State, the Albany Times Union reported Sunday. There are simply too few patients in New York because of a lengthy qualification process that makes it hard for residents to...

New York medical marijuana distributors have yet to make a profit eight months after medical pot went legal in the Empire State, the Albany Times Union reported Sunday. There are simply too few patients in New York because of a lengthy qualification process that makes it hard for residents to...

So Suffolk County has a shortfall at the Riverhead medical marijuana dispensary ["Medical pot revenue short," Spin Cycle, June 20]. The total revenue for February and March was $198.89! What did officials expect? New York has the worst medical marijuana law in the United States. How do they...

So Suffolk County has a shortfall at the Riverhead medical marijuana dispensary ["Medical pot revenue short," Spin Cycle, June 20]. The total revenue for February and March was $198.89! What did officials expect? New York has the worst medical marijuana law in the United States. How do they...

The message written across the giant inflatable joint making its way down Broadway in Saturday's pot parade seemed timely: "Obama, deschedule cannabis now!" With marijuana legal in some form in 24 states and Washington, D.C., the possibility of cannabis being "descheduled" from its federal...

Each medical marijuana company in New York is allowed to produce up to five different strains of the drug. The oils, tinctures and capsules are generally labeled by different colors or brand names, and, in some cases, both. Vireo Health of New York, for instance, uses a red, yellow and green...

Etain LLC is poised to open a medical marijuana dispensary in Yonkers, and Mayor Mike Spano said the city differed from other communities that tried to block access to the controversial business. "Many communities in New York state, and I think we all know this, have worked to keep...

When the New York State Department of Health's Medical Marijuana Program was launched on Jan. 7, 2016, Upper East Side physician Dr. Thomas O'Brien was the first doctor to secure a certification for a patient to be prescribed medical marijuana. He has since helped 200 patients to achieve...

Fulton County, New York (WBNG Binghamton) Medical marijuana is being grown legally in New York for the first time in more than a century. Josh Martin of Action News was given an exclusive look at a brand new medical marijuana facility. The New York State Medical Marijuana Program launched on...

At the first sound of distress, Mark "Buc" Williams of Lockport can leap out of his chair like a lightning bolt when his son Tommy has a seizure. There isn't anything he and his wife Patrice wouldn't do to help their son, so they spent several years lobbying for the New York Compassionate...

What exactly is a medical marijuana dispensary? On a recent tour of one, inside a converted Casual Male XL store next to the Queens Mall, Ari Hoffnung tried to make clear what a dispensary wasn't. "When you walk in here, you don't hear any Bob Marley music playing," he said. "We don't...

The Shinnecock Indian Nation has voted in overwhelming support of a proposed medical marijuana facility on its tribal land on Long Island's East End. The proposed plan would include the development of medicalmarijuana cultivation and dispensary facilities, owned by the Shinnecock Nation...

After decades of importing hemp from other countries, in recent years several states have begun legalizing hemp farming for industrial purposes. New York is one of many states to take this action, with recent legislation making it the 11th in the nation to legalize hemp. As with other...

Cancer patient Brittany Barger didn't know exactly what to expect when she walked into the medical marijuana dispensary in downtown White Plains, but she did know she was taking a step toward taking her life back, according to lohud.com. The 27-year-old New York woman told lohud.com that she...

New York state opened its first medical marijuana dispensaries on Thursday, launching one of the most conservative and tightly monitored programs of its kind in the United States. In opening the clinics, New York joins 22 other states and Washington, D.C., with comprehensive medical marijuana...

Manhattan's first and only medical marijuana dispensary is like a fortress. To enter the building, located on 14th Street near the 3rd Avenue subway station, patients have to pass through two security systems before they even encounter another human. First, they flash their medical marijuana...

It's high time New Yorkers got medical marijuana, even if they're not allowed to legally smoke it. The state opened eight of the outlined 20 weed dispensaries on Jan. 7, joining the nation's 22 other states and D.C. that sell medicinal cannabis. However, New York law only allows non-smokable...

On a recent Tuesday afternoon, around the time most people wind down their day, a man in a cream Ralph Lauren suit and narrow-brimmed fedora set out from his Manhattan apartment with a black, zippered bag over his shoulder. A slight figure in his mid-30s, he knew where he was going but not where...

With medicinal marijuana licenses in hand, New York dispensaries are finally gearing up to sell cannabis legally beginning Thursday. Columbia Care arguably has one the buzziest dispensary locations in New York City's Union Square neighborhood. The state in July granted five medicinal...