California Governor Signs MMJ Patient Organ Transplant Bill
California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law on Monday a bill that will protect medical marijuana patients from being denied… Read More
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In this section, you will find the latest medical marijuana news throughout the world. For a list of medical studies related to cannabis and its effect on various conditions & disorders, click here.
Massachusetts Medical Marijuana Industry Attracts New Wave of Entrepreneurs
Massachusetts’ first medical cannabis dispensary opened last week in Salem, and now more than 50 dispensary license applications have been submitted… Read More
Minnesota Medical Cannabis Market Launches
Minnesota has become the latest U.S. state to allow the legal distribution of medical cannabis as of July 1, 2015. Under the restrictive… Read More
Vancouver Becomes First Canadian City to Regulate Cannabis Sales
Vancouver’s city council has passed a new set of rules to make it the first Canadian city to establish regulations and a licensing… Read More
Photos and Adventures from the 2015 High Times NorCal Medical Cannabis Cup
The Bay area hosted this year’s NorCal High Times Medical Marijuana Cannabis Cup. Vendors with a wide range of vaporizers,… Read More
Massachusetts First MMJ Dispensary Opens for Business
Three years after Massachusetts voters overwhelmingly approved medical cannabis use, the state’s first dispensary has finally opened. After receiving a… Read More
The White House Removes Marijuana Research Restrictions
The Obama Administration has announced that the federal government will drop current marijuana research restrictions, leaving the door open to… Read More
Oregon Lawmakers Grant Certain Eastern Counties the Right to Ban Marijuana Sales
Oregon lawmakers tasked with implementing Measure 91 — the successful 2014 voter initiative to legalize recreational marijuana — have approved… Read More
New York Senate Passes Emergency MMJ Access Bill
In a rare display of bipartisanship, the New York Senate passed a bill that would speed up access to medical… Read More
Canada High Court Rules All Forms of Cannabis Legal for Medical Use
Canada’s highest court made a laudable legal decision last week, ruling unanimously that all forms of cannabis are legal for… Read More
Ethan Russo: Endocannabinoid Deficiency & Medical Cannabis
Subscribe to the Ganjapreneur podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, SoundCloud or Google Play.When the acceptance of medical cannabis goes mainstream, the… Read More
New York City Hospital Partners with Colorado Dispensary for NY Medical Marijuana License
North Shore-LIJ Health System, a major New York City hospital network, has partnered with Colorado’s Silverpeak Apothecary in hopes to… Read More
Colorado Supreme Court Upholds Right of Employers to Fire Cannabis Users, Even MMJ Patients
The Colorado Supreme Court unanimously upheld decisions by lower courts that allow employers to fire employees for off-the-clock medical marijuana… Read More
Delaware Chambers Unanimously Approve Bill Legalizing MMJ for Children with Epilepsy
Lawmakers in the Delaware House and Senate have unanimously approved a bill that would permit children to take part in… Read More
Puerto Rico Bans Smoking of Medical Cannabis
After legalizing medical marijuana, lawmakers in Puerto Rico have banned smoking the plant. Speaking with the Associated Press this week,… Read More
Poll Shows AZ Voters Support Recreational Marijuana and MMJ Research
A Rocky Mountain Poll published Wednesday finds that more than half of Arizona voters are in favor of legalizing recreational… Read More
House of Representatives Votes to Protect State MMJ And Hemp Programs
The U.S. House of Representatives reauthorized an amendment that prohibits the Justice Department from interfering with medical marijuana programs in… Read More
Texas Legalizes MMJ Oils for Treatment of Epilepsy
Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law a bill legalizing the use of marijuana oil extracts in the treatment of… Read More
Juicing Cannabis: When Will the Health Food Industry Embrace Marijuana?
The health food industry could be the perfect segue for cannabis to enter the mainstream. Sprouted hempseeds have high levels… Read More
Washington Liquor Control Board to License Approximately 400 Medical Dispensaries
The Washington State Liquor Control Board is set to be retitled the ‘Liquor and Cannabis Board’ on July 24th. The… Read More
Florida MMJ Law Moves Forward Following Legal Suit
A Florida judge upheld the state’s proposed medical marijuana law in a ruling Wednesday, which allows the state to begin… Read More
VA Doctors to See Marijuana Gag-Order Lifted Following Senate Committee Vote
Veterans Administration doctors will soon be able to recommend medical marijuana to their patients per the bipartisan Veterans Equal Access… Read More
Critics Call Texas MMJ Bill “Unworkable”
The Texas House of Representatives passed a bill Monday that aims to provide medical marijuana access to patients with intractable… Read More
Oregon Senate Committee Approves Bill to Tamper With State MMJ Program
The Oregon Senate Special Committee, charged with creating rules regarding Oregon Measure 91, voted unanimously to send Senate Bill 964.… Read More