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New Mexico's top health official has rejected state Medical Cannabis Advisory Board recommendations to add opiate dependence and Alzheimer's disease to the list of conditions that qualify a person to legally buy medical marijuana. State Health Secretary Lynn Gallagher rejected the...

The Obama Administration's Drug Czar Michael Botticelli chatted it up on Politico's Pulse Check podcast recently where he discussed the federal government's approach to drug addiction and rehabilitation, among other topics. But Botticelli did take a moment to discuss marijuana, and specifically...

The U.S. is in the grips of a well-documented opiate epidemic. More people in the country now die from heroin and prescription opiates than they do from car accidents. In 2014, nearly 19,000 fatal overdoses were related to legal opiates like Oxycontin and Vicodin, and according to the Center for...

The U.S. is in the grips of a well-documented opiate epidemic. More people in the country now die from heroin and prescription opiates than they do from car accidents. In 2014, nearly 19,000 fatal overdoses were related to legal opiates like Oxycontin and Vicodin, and according to the Center for...

Vermont has approved medical cannabis for chronic pain in an effort to reduce opiate abuse. Will other states follow suit? The country is currently mired in what some are calling an "opioid painkiller crisis," and Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin took concrete action earlier this month to address...

Vermont has approved medical cannabis for chronic pain in an effort to reduce opiate abuse. Will other states follow suit? The country is currently mired in what some are calling an "opioid painkiller crisis," and Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin took concrete action earlier this month to address...

Medical marijuana caregivers and patients will ask state regulators Tuesday to consider adding opiate addiction as a qualifying condition for medical marijuana. Maine will be the first state to formally consider allowing medical marijuana to be used as treatment for addiction to opiates and...

I believe, as a community, we need the alternative that legal cannabis can provide. I have worked firsthand, as a licensed clinical social worker in Barre, with individuals in the grips of heroin addiction, some whose addiction began with prescription pain medication. I have seen the...