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Health Department officials in New York have begun halting businesses from selling food products with CBD in them despite the compound containing no intoxicating or psychoactive effects. New York is among 10 other states including Ohio and Maine that have also had health department officials telling businesses it is against the law to sell CBD infused food and drink. ...

When Arizonans voted to pass the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act (AMMA) the bill did not specifically include the legalization of the processed cannabis products including hash and extracts like wax and oils. An Arizona Court of Appeals decision is being question after a medical marijuana patient was sentenced 2.5 years in prison for possessing only 0.05 ounces of hash....

Cannabis has become one of the most famous plants on the planet in recent years, grabbing headlines for many different reasons and medicinally improving the lives of many thousands of people in over 30 states all around the United States, but there is still some opposition to those who aren't sure of the reason many patients were given or want a recommendatio...

The Cleveland area of Ohio will finally be getting it's first medical marijuana dispensary, after plenty of delays patients will finally have access to medication. The new shop, "The Botanist," will be opening on 30133 Euclid Avenue from 12pm-6pm Tuesday through Saturday. The owners of The Botanist will eventually be in charge of 5 medical marijuana disp...

Nebraska lawmakers have begun to embrace the potential medical marijuana program they could soon have, however their governor has already announced his opposition the change. The bill LB110 would allow medical marijuana patients with prescriptions to purchase medical cannabis from state licensed dispensaries and also grow controlled amounts in private at home. The gov...

Democratic Senator and former mayor of Newark, New Jersey Cory Booker announced his campaign for the 2020 presidential election this week and his first major discussion topic was criminal justice reform, more specifically ending the harmful prohibition against marijuana. Booker has focused much of his career on the disparities of enforcing prohibition and how it ...

Maryland's medical marijuana program began in 2013 with their first dispensary opening in 2017. Legislators had been working towards the goal for nearly 10 years before any product became available to patients, and while there are plenty of flower, oil, tinctures and other products, the state has yet to allow the sale of cannabis edibles. Lawmakers had been afraid...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is in charge of an international treaty of the 1962 convention that set the worldwide standard for controlled substances. Last week an announcement by the WHO said they are calling for whole-plant marijuana and cannabis resin to be rescheduled from the most restrictive category (IV) down to the least restrictive (I). The Controlled ...

Earlier this month the third standalone cannabis bill was filed in Congress, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, or better known as H.R. 420. It's hard to say if the bill has enough support or not in Congress to pass but it's clear with the growing number of voters who have changed state laws towards cannabis reform that Americans want cannabis legalized....

In almost 2 years since it's enactment Denver's legalization of social use cannabis businesses have not taken off nearly as much as they have wanted. With only 3 applications and 2 approved licenses officials are forced to think that maybe the restrictions on the program are too harsh, and with a 2020 end date there might not be enough time left to determine i...

A Hollywood, California doctor is now in a lawsuit defending his medical license after improperly diagnosing a child with ADD and bipolar disorder, to which he prescribed medical marijuana for. The child had been kicked out of his school and told he would be allowed to come back if he started taking medication. The father decided he did not want him taking conventiona...

The city of Baltimore, Maryland is taking a big step away from prohibition as the city's top prosecutor announced she will no longer be pursuing any marijuana possession cases for any quantity. The move comes as Baltimore sits atop the nation's list of cities with both the highest murder rate and the most broken relationship between police and citizens, a time...