Published: Feb 28, 2017, 1:47 pm • Updated: Feb 28, 2017, 1:47 pm By Christine Vestal, The Washington Post NEW YORK – After a 12-year battle with debilitating abdominal conditions that forced her to stop working, marijuana has helped Lynn Sabulski feel well enough to look for a job. Sabulski is among nearly 14,000 patients […]
Published: Jul 28, 2017, 10:37 am • Updated: Jul 28, 2017, 10:42 am By Brooke Edwards Staggs, The Cannifornian Three state agencies spent more than a year drafting 211 pages of regulations for California’s medical marijuana market. And they’ve collected thousands of public comments on those proposed rules since they were released in the spring. […]
Published: Oct 31, 2017, 3:50 pm • Updated: Oct 31, 2017, 3:52 pm By Robert Higgs, Advance Ohio Media CLEVELAND, Ohio – City Council voted Monday to approve new zoning requirements that will prevent the sale of medical marijuana in about 95 percent of the city. The legislation, approved 15-1, limits the location of marijuana […]
Published: Dec 26, 2017, 4:12 pm • Updated: Dec 26, 2017, 4:12 pm By Alison Bosma, Milford Daily News It’s been more than a year since Massachusetts residents legalized recreational marijuana, but there is little outward evidence of the promised changes. There are no downtown pot cafes. There are no licensed retailers selling cannabis products […]
SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Medical Association is accusing the leaders of an effort to legalize medical marijuana in the state of misleading voters into supporting the measure. The Salt Lake Tribune reports the association says the “initiative is not about medicine.” The group says supporters have used the images of suffering patients to […]
A bid to protect state recreational marijuana regimes was snuffed by Congress late Wednesday, but federal medical marijuana protections in place since 2014 remain attached to must-pass spending legislation. A $1.3 trillion spending bill that cleared the U.S. House today includes language that would continue shielding states’ medical marijuana programs from U.S. Department of Justice […]
Published: Sep 28, 2017, 9:38 am • Updated: Sep 28, 2017, 9:38 am By Darlene Superville, The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Melania Trump has invited experts and people affected by addiction to opioids to the White House for a listening session and discussion about the epidemic. The first lady is hosting Thursday’s event in the […]
Published: Oct 24, 2017, 11:38 am • Updated: Oct 24, 2017, 12:09 pm By Scott J. Croteau, Masslive.com A family-run plumbing company in Central Massachusetts has been used as a “front” for a large-scale marijuana distribution and growing business, authorities said just days after $6 million in marijuana was seized at a Clinton warehouse associated […]
Published: Oct 20, 2017, 7:03 pm • Updated: Oct 20, 2017, 7:03 pm By The Associated Press LIMA, Peru — Peru has become the latest country in Latin America to allow the medicinal use of marijuana. The nation’s conservative congress voted 67-5 late Thursday to approve legislation allowing the drug to be produced, imported and […]
Published: Oct 23, 2017, 11:28 am • Updated: Oct 23, 2017, 11:28 am By The Associated Press AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine lawmakers have begun a special session in Augusta. Republican Gov. Paul LePage ordered lawmakers to return Monday to fix problems in several areas. The biggest fights are expected over two more complicated issues: recreational […]