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Oregon's medical marijuana advocates say the state's proposed rules for production impose expensive and unnecessary burdens on growers and will ultimately harm patients who rely on the drug to cope with a wide range of health problems. The Oregon Health Authority's draft rules, set to take...

Ramsin Ishaq can smoke his medically prescribed marijuana all day long at a new vaping lounge in downtown Windsor, but health officials say he can't flick the ash from his joint in an ash tray. That's because health officials ordered the owner of Higher Limits lounge to remove all ashtrays...

The largest health fund Clalit Health Services, has instructed its doctors not to prescribe medical cannabis to patients when its use becomes fully regulated and pharmacies will be able to fill their prescriptions. The other three health funds reportedly agree that doctors' prescribing...

New York's Department of Health is sponsoring research on the use of a pharmaceutical-grade medical cannabis drug to treat children with severe epilepsy. The department announced the studies Wednesday. They'll be open to 100 children and young adults whose epilepsy has resisted other...

There are several integral meetings regarding the Cannabis industry and the rights of patients and all consumers this week, here are two for your calendar: The Cannabis Research Task Force will meet January 26. This is the third and final meeting of the Oregon Task Force on Researching the...

Israel could be just six months away from allowing general practitioners to prescribe cannabis, Health Minister Yaakov Litzman said Wednesday. Litzman is leading a reform of the Health Ministry's medical cannabis policy that seeks to devolve the authority to prescribe the drug from the...

Israel could be just six months away from allowing general practitioners to prescribe cannabis, Health Minister Yaakov Litzman said Wednesday. Litzman is leading a reform of the Health Ministry's medical cannabis policy that seeks to devolve the authority to prescribe the drug from the...

British Columbia's Health Minister says he will use meetings with his provincial and federal counterparts this week in Vancouver to push for recreational marijuana to be sold in locations that are strictly regulated and inspected, such as special kiosks at liquor stores. Terry Lake also said...

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Israel's haredi Minister of Health Rabbi Yaakov Litzman published a plan today to legalize the widespread production and sale of medical marijuana, Ynet reported. Litzman, a top member of the Ashkenazi haredi United Torah Judaism Party, wants there to be no restrictions on the number of...

Israel's haredi Minister of Health Rabbi Yaakov Litzman published a plan today to legalize the widespread production and sale of medical marijuana, Ynet reported. Litzman, a top member of the Ashkenazi haredi United Torah Judaism Party, wants there to be no restrictions on the number of...

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder will not qualify New Yorkers for medical marijuana – at least not yet, the state health department said Monday. Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker determined there was not enough evidence of effectiveness to allow medical marijuana be prescribed for PTSD...

(I could't find a suitable topic on the website, so I thought that asking in the growers forum makes the most sense, since you are the guys with the most experience with curing and encounters with mold, illnesses, bad storing and that kind of stuff — feel free to redirect me to another forum if...

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...

A local Adult Psychiatric and Mental Health Nurse Practitioner who treats PTSD has been pushing for years for the feds to essentially legalize medical marijuana. It's legal here in New Mexico but the federal laws still muddys things for patients. "I mean it turns people's lives around,"...

A local Adult Psychiatric and Mental Health Nurse Practitioner who treats PTSD has been pushing for years for the feds to essentially legalize medical marijuana. It's legal here in New Mexico but the federal laws still muddys things for patients. "I mean it turns people's lives around,"...

A lawsuit, expensive pot, unpaid contractors and stalled projects are the harvest Nova Scotia has reaped from changes to the rules governing the cultivation and sale of medical marijuana. In April 2014, Health Canada brought down rules meant to stop people with prescriptions for medical...

Armed with New York state medicinal marijuana licenses, dispensaries are gearing up to sell cannabis legally in the state in the new year. The cannabis experiment continues as medicinal marijuana use becomes more widespread. New York state, as an example, has rolled out dispensary licenses...

Armed with New York state medicinal marijuana licenses, dispensaries are gearing up to sell cannabis legally in the state in the new year. The cannabis experiment continues as medicinal marijuana use becomes more widespread. New York state, as an example, has rolled out dispensary licenses...