Articles tagged with "medical marijuana"

More than 5,000 patients are now being served by the state’s nine dispensaries.

Americans for Safe Access finds Oregon and Illinois have the best patient programs. The worst? Texas and the Southeast states.

“I don’t want us to cry wolf,” says the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. “We have to do these studies in a way that can identify risks.”

The state’s dispensaries open for business, as Louisiana becomes the first Deep South state to offer legal medical cannabis.

Patients in Louisiana have been waiting years for medical marijuana, after lawmakers created the regulatory framework for dispensing therapeutic cannabis in 2015.

Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain said that if the product collected Monday is free of contaminants, medical cannabis could reach patients early next week.

Longtime family farmers, larger operations that grow hemp, and out-of-state corporate growers are among the 81 applicants lining up to be licensed medical cannabis growers in Utah.

Despite legislation from 2017 that allowed cannabis to be legal for medical use on July 1 of this year, West Virginia officials say they’re still years away from the first sale.

Dispensaries continue to open in Arkansas, where six of 32 state-licensed dispensaries are expected to be up and running this week.

New research discovers an 8% decrease in youth cannabis use in states that legalize for adult use.