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More lawsuits are sprouting around the United States involving state legal medical marijuana patients being terminated or denied employment soley based on their medical marijuana use. Recently a Connecticut man was applying for a position as a firefighter in Bridgeport. Everything was going smoothly as he passed all his requirements, except one. Despite being a state ...

Colorado's legal cannabis industry has set impressive sales records since it's launch in 2014. In total, all cannabis products sold over the last 5 years have been worth $6 billion with the program bringing in a total of $927 million in tax revenue for the state. In 2018 alone Colorado sold $1.55 billion in cannabis products just beating 2017's record of $...

California is setting trends that other states are eager to follow. This week California's cannabis bureau passed a regulation that would allow the delviery of recreational and medical marijuana right to the doorstep of your home. Previously there had been much confusion on which counties and cities had enacted what laws banning the sale and distribution of cannab...

Researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, MA found contradictory results in a study spanning from 2000-2017 about how consuming cannabis can effect the sperm count in men. Prevoiusly researchers believed that like alcohol and tobacco, cannabis had negative effects on a man's sperm count, however this newer study is showing that m...

North Dakota legalized medical marijuana over 2 years ago and state regulators are nearly ready to launch the program, but advocates are already hoping to begin expanding the program due to it's heavily limited nature. Several bills have been proposed to help patients get access to their medication including one that would allow physician assistants to certify pat...

Minnesota's medical marijuana program was passed in 2014 and yet is still considered one of the strictest programs in the country. Flower and smokable cannabis is prohibited leaving only pills and oils to be prescribed to patients with one of 13 severe conditions. The state only has 8 dispensaries for all 15,000 of it's registered patients and half of them are...

Polls in Nebraska are showing that citizens are in support of medical marijuana and state legislators have begun drafting both a bill and a ballot initiative that would end with the legalization of medical marijuana. If enough lawmakers support the bill including the governor then that could mean available medical cannabis to patients much faster, however if not then ...

Connecticut Democratic lawmakers are proposing to legalize recreational marijuana in the state for adults 21 years old and up. The new governor in Connecticut announced his support for the measure alongside other Democratic talking points like providing debt-free college for certain qualifying students. The bill would mean the regulation, taxation and sale of legal ca...

Louisiana's medical marijuana program has experienced a series of delays that now has officials saying product will be available by May at the earliest. The state licensed two different growers, one of which harvested their first crop nearly 4 months ago and the other is finalizing details for their grow facility and hopes to have product ready to be tested by fal...

A Democratic Senator in Iowa has proposed a recreational marijuana bill that would legalize the plant to be regulated and treated like beer and alcohol. Though some opposing lawmakers agree it's time to begin a dialogue, the Republican run Iowa legislature will likely have heavy opposition to full cannabis legalization. The state's medical marijuana program wa...

The previous governor of Illinois was apprehensive to expand on the state's medical marijuana program by blocking the additions of potential qualifying condtions. The newly elected governor is pro-marijuana and intends to legalize recreational marijuana in Illinois, which leaves advocates curious when he will begin removing the road blocks that have been hold...

Pennsylvania's medical marijuana program has been seeing healthy expansions since it's launch last year in 2018. Last year state officials approved the sale of dry leaf marijuana and the ability to petition for new qualifying conditions for the program. Since then 2 new conditions have been recommended by the Medical Marijuana Advisory Board, anxiety and Toure...