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In a turn of events the FDA has defended the current status of marijuana to opponents of legalization after a formal request that the FDA place an even harsher classification on the plant. The prohibitionist group, Drug Watch International, hoped the FDA would place cannabis on the negative monograph list in an attempt to cease state legal marijuana dispensa...

Vermont's medical marijuana program will soon see an important expansion that will allow many of the patients living outside of major cities easier access and a much more relaxed experience. Though Vermont's medical marijuana law only allows for up to 5 retail licenses in the state another bill was passed that allowed the owners of those licenses to be allowed...

A new dispensary which is the first of it's kind in Washington state has opened in the city of Auburn despite all of the citiy's dispensary licenses already being taken. The store earned a license by opening on Muckleshoot tribe land through a loophole that allows tribal lands to dictate their own cannabis licenses. Not only did the dispensary earn a...

In a new precedent set by a worker's compensation judge says that Freehold Township's insurance provider will be forced to cover a township employee's medical marijuana after his hearing at the end of June. New Jersey's governor recently expanded the state's medical marijuana program with a wider range of qualifying conditions hoping to make some p...

After New York state cannabis advocates showed a wide range of support for recreational legalization the governor requested the state Health Department do research and write a report on the potential pros and cons of legalizing cannabis in the state. This week the New York Health Department released that report with a definitive stance that New York should legalize ca...

North Dakota cannabis advocates have been working hard to make sure that their recreational cannabis legalization measure made the deadline for this November's ballot. After gathering almost 19,000 signatures in support of the measure the proposal is now on it's way to the North Dakota Secretary of State, Al Jaeger. North Dakota has had legal medical marijuana...

Oregon legalized the recreational use of cannabis after voters said YES to a referendum back in 2014, but the law allows for individual cities to ban the sale of cannabis if they choose. One city that chose to keep the ban on cannabis, Klamath Falls, now has the chance almost 4 years later to change their mind. After gathering 1,864 signatures and getting them verifie...

While some states are still debating if medical marijuana is an effective alternative treatment to opioid pain killers, another study in a growing list has found that not only does the availability of medical marijuana greatly decrease (30%) the prescription of Schedule III opioids in Medicaid enrollees, but by reducing these Medicaid prescriptions medical mariju...

A new study has been released by researchers at the University of Massachusetts to help give the state a baseline understanding of adult cannabis use right at a unique time where recreational marijuana has already been legalized in the state, yet the retail program is still being regulated and has yet to begin. In a survey of around 3,000 adults to represent the state...

The job market in the U.S. is being forced to evolve as the culture around it does and one major change to the way Americans live is being aware that consuming cannabis does not hold the same negative light that it used to. Positive drug test results for cannabis have been on the rise in state's with recreationally legal cannabis programs for obvious reasons. More...

Oklahoma voters said YES to legalizing medical marijuana in the state earlier last week and now the Oklahoma State Department of Health has made some emergency regulation changes. Officials in medical marijuana advocacy groups say that these changes clearly violate intentions of the law that Oklahomans specifically voted for. Of the changes made, two that are upsettin...

New Haven, Connecticut opened a new medical marijuana clinic this week called CannaHealth located in the heart of the city. The founder of the new clinic, Kebra Smith-Bolden, became the first African American and first woman in Connecticut to be approved for a cannabis license. Medical marijuana was not a new subject to Bolden as her grandmother was a well known ...