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Cannabis legalization advocates in Kansas are fired up and ready for action as the group Fire It Up Kansas begins their new campaign to bring awareness to the inequalities and injustices of cannabis prohibition. The group is starting the push for legalization awareness with two billboards in Wichita. One illustrates the comparison of adults being able to purchase as m...

Massachusetts officially legalized recreational marijuana and began sales just over 2 weeks ago and sales numbers have been through the roof even with only 2 retail stores open across the state. The first week was actually a short week due to the Thanksgiving holiday and sales were still around $2.2 million. The second week which marked the first official full week of...

Massachusetts recently opened their first two dispensaries after legalizing recreational marijuana, but those two dispensaries aren't exactly accessible by most of the state's population. Particularly Boston residents aren't thrilled with the long drive it takes to get to either Leicester or Northampton and are wondering when shops will open up in their ci...

Michigan's legalization of marijuana officially begins on December 6th, very soon, and law enforcement on college campuses want to make sure students are aware that most campuses are not allowing cannabis any more than before. While charges for possession of under 2.5 ounces of cannabis will no longer come with an arrest and possible jail time, students will still...

Ohio's medical marijuana program has faced a plethora of delays but after years of waiting it looks like patients will finally be able to access medication very soon. 5 months ago was the intended date to open the patient/caregiver registry--better late than never-- the registry is finally open. Earlier this year when it was supposed to be available to sign up gro...

Despite the cannabis law reform developing allover the country there are still many instances where someone's employer chooses to terminate or suspend them due to medical marijuana showing up on a drug test. Craig Miller, a man with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in Illinois, is still fighting for his job and to pay his bills after being suspended from his company. He ...

Legislators in New York recently began debates on whether or not to support the state's incoming recreational cannabis legalization bill and while there was definitely opposition, officials voted 13-1 in favor of supporting legalization. The opposition did not come from the legislation itself but rather the person's opinion on cannabis and it's recreationa...

Residents of Boulder, Colorado who have been convicted of possessing under 2 ounces of cannabis may soon be able to have those records sealed in an attempt to stop citizens from being haunted by a previous offense that is no longer a crime. The Boulder Country Distric Attorney's Office found around 4,000 victims of cannabis possession charges that may be able to h...

5 new medical marijuana disapensaries are opening around the state of Iowa this week as more and more patients register for the state's program as either patients or caregivers. Patients can now access medical cannabis products like oils, creams and capsules all for between $30-$130 for a months supply. As the state settles into it's newer medical marijuana pr...

Patients allover the world use medical cannabis to treat ailments of many varieties and now the researchers at the University of Hawaii have discovered one more, recovery from a damaged heart. Heart failure can be caused by many things like heart attacks, leaky valves and hypertension, and researchers found that people who use cannabis recover quicker from these types...

This recent November election had several states legalize either recreational or medical marijuana with Missouri being one of the newest states with legal medical cannabis, but one of the state's laws currently in place has many scared and confused about how it might effect their benefits. A law put in place in 2011 screens recipients of welfare, or the Temporary ...

Michigan's legislature approved permanent regualtions for the state's medical marijuana industry after operating under temporary rules for over a year. Most of the regulations remained similar to the temporary rules however one major addition included is the new ability for dispensaries to deliver up to 2.5 ounces of medical cannabis to a patients' home, a...