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The New York State Health Department has begun hosting public forums to discuss and listen to local opinions on the good and bad of legalizing marijuana and the expansion of the state's medical program. Legislation is currently being drafted after the governor's commissioned study on the potential of legalization supported the pros far beyond the cons in New Y...

Washington State legalized recreational cannabis in 2012 and medical marijuana back in 1998 and since the state's acceptance of cannabis has greatly increased. In 2010 in Seattle a new city attorney took over and decided to stop prosecuting low-level cannabis crimes. Now the city has gone a step further as local judges agreed this month to clear past misdemeanor c...

A new style of medicating is on the horizon as the first U.S. public, full-service medical marijuana kitchen is opening up in Tempe, Arizona in October. Patients may be used to seeing prepackaged cannabis-infused foods in dispensaries, but this is nothing like that. This kitchen is operated by Tempe's Mint Dispensary and will feature a full menu of freshly cooked-...

Newly filed legislation that would have the VA conduct research on the effects of medical cannabis on veterans has the support of many veterans who understand the struggles of PTSD and the harmful prescriptions that are currently coming out of the VA. Filed by democrats Bill Nelson from Florida and Brian Schatz from Hawaii, they're hoping to reduce the amount of a...

As Massachusetts residents await their new recreational cannabis program many are looking to the Cannabis Control Commission (CCC) for answers on when exactly it might begin. The original start date was intended to be July 1st of this summer however officials have since followed up by saying they're expecting late-summer or early-fall. Now that fall has officially...

Officials at the Oregon Liquor Control Commission set an emergency temporary restriction on medical marijuana this week because they think some patients are abusing the high purchase limit and selling it on the black market. Before the policy change Oregon patients could purchase up to 1 and a half pounds of cannabis flower a day, but the new policy sets that limit at...

Now that the medical marijuana program in Michigan is becoming official lawmakers are implementing an online portal for registration and information about the program for both patients and physicians. Not only will the online portal be easier than sending in paperwork but it is also expected to cut down wait times for approval down to only days. Registering online wil...

Legal marijuana has been doing fairly well in Las Vegas but business owners aren't having as much luck in the more rural parts of Nevada. Since the state legalized recreational cannabis many cities around Nevada have upheld their ban on dispensaries or cultivation or both. Even brothels are legal in many parts of Nevada, yet some lawmakers have problems selli...

This week the governor of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands signed into law a bill that establishes the territory's first retail cannabis program. This is a major first for the United States as no other U.S. jurisdiction has enacted a commercial cannabis program through legistlation, only through voter initiatives. The law creates a comprehensive pr...

As cannabis education and availability increase around the U.S. there is an interesting shift in the different age groups who are using cannabis. While teen use has dropped from 8% in 2002 down to 6.5% in 2017, baby boomers, those in their 50's and 60's, have shown a large increase in use of around 1% in 2002 to 6.7% in 2017. Even seniors over 65 years of...

For the first time the U.S. federal government has approved the importation of medical cannabis for the purpose of research. The imported cannabis will be coming from a Canadian company Tilray Inc. and be delivered to the University of California San Diego medical school where it will be used in researching essential tremor, a common disorder that causes a person'...

Medical marijuana deliveries may be available in Michigan sooner than you think as regulators have decided it can be handled safely and would benefit the state and it's patients. Michigan regulators have debated the subject for months and finally held a public hearing on the proposed rules this week. Each dispensary must be individually approved for deliverie...