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The debate rages on in Maryland as lawmakers are considering adding opioid use disorder to the state's list of qualifying conditions for medical marijuana. After a similar bill did not pass last year Maryland's medical marijuana commission studied if the condition has evidence for successfully being treated by cannabis and concluded that "there is no cred...

The European Parliament earlier this week passed a resolution that intends to reinforce notion that cannabis needs to be reevaultated for medical research and use in European countries. While the resolution does not enact any laws, like the World Health Organization, it is recommending that action be taken and supports countries in doing so. Officials from GenX Biosci...

Georgia legalized the possession and use of low-dose medical cannabis oil back in 2015 but left their patients without a legal way to purchase or grow the medicine. They're not the only state to pass a flawed law but a newly introduced measure would finally legalize the cultivation and sale of medical cannabis for patients who are approved for a qualifying medical...

In a study of over 860,000 students from 1999-2015, researchers found that states with legalized medical marijuana programs did not see an increase in youth cannabis use. However what the researchers did find was a decrease in use from teenagers of about 1.1%, and while the decrease is subtle, the larger point is that regulating medical cannabis does not mean teenager...

Michigan voters legalized medical marijuana over 10 years ago and now that recreational mairjuana has also been legalized the state is making some changes to it's medical cannabis regulations to help ease costs on patients. Originally the cost of a state registered medical marijuana card was $100 for 1 year and the new proposal would make it $40 for two years...

Residents of Shorewood, Wisconsin are ready to legalize marijuana, but when that didn't happen officials proposed cannabis decriminalization and a fine that would be fair and affordable to everyone. Current fines for possessing less than 1 ounce of cannabis in Shorewood is $250 plus state surcharges, but if this ordinance becomes law it would bring the fine d...

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...