Medical Marijuana News

AltMed is suing the city of Miami Beach in efforts to overturn a city board decision that blocks medical cannabis dispensaries from being located within 1,200 feet of each other.

A Pennsylvania-based cannabis investor is suing Missouri over residency requirements for the state’s medical cannabis business licenses.

Utah is considering a proposal that would allow any doctor in the state to recommend cannabis for up to 15 patients per year.

Irish medical cannabis patients no longer have to travel to The Netherlands to purchase their medicine after officials made permanent a pandemic-response service that lets patients order medical cannabis products from Dutch cannabis firms.

Lawmakers in South Carolina have pre-filed multiple bills aimed at reforming the state’s cannabis laws including two medical cannabis legalization proposals, a decriminalization proposal, and others.

The New Mexico medical cannabis advisory board has called for increasing plant counts for licensed producers in an effort to bring product prices down.

Missouri’s medical cannabis industry is experiencing product shortages two months after the market’s launch.

Medical cannabis constituted Maine’s most lucrative crop in 2020, outpacing potatoes, milk, and other food crops.

Cannabis researcher Dr. Lyle Craker has filed suit over the DEA’s failure to license additional growers for research-grade cannabis.

New Mexico’s medical cannabis market is thriving this year despite retail restrictions imposed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

A Pennsylvania Appeals Court ruling has guaranteed a medical cannabis patient’s access to unemployment benefits after he was fired for failing a drug test.

Two studies presented at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions found that cannabis users may be at a higher risk of heart disease but also that cannabis consumers are less likely to experience sudden kidney failure.

The Mississippi Supreme Court is set to hear a legal challenge to the petition process used to qualify the state’s overwhelmingly successful ballot initiative for legalizing medical cannabis.

Former NBA player Larry Hughes is partnering with former teammate Al Harrington to found two dispensaries and a cultivation/processing center in St. Louis, Missouri.

A new presidential decree in Argentina allows for the home cultivation of cannabis by registered patients and will require insurance providers to cover medical cannabis costs.

Texas Senator-elect Roland Gutierrez has pre-filed a bill that aims to legalize cannabis in Texas and dramatically expand the state’s limited medical cannabis program.

Tennessee looks poised to make significant cannabis policy reforms in the coming year with at least one medical cannabis legalization bill planned for January’s legislative session.

The Muscogee (Creek) Nation in Oklahoma has adopted legislation exempting medical cannabis patients from drug possession charges so long as they are in compliance with state law.

Sean Worsley, the Purple Heart recipient and PTSD patient who was arrested in Alabama in 2016 for possessing medical cannabis, has been released from prison after he was approved for parole last month.

Green Active, a UK-based CBD company, announced a donation program to help the family of an eight-year-old cannabis patient pay for his medicine as the NHS refuses to write a prescription providing it to the family for free.

Florida’s Marion County School Board has fired high school dean Mike Hickman, who is also a military veteran, over his use of medical cannabis to treat combat wound-related chronic pain.

Ohio regulators are now accepting petitions for adding new qualifying conditions to the state’s medical cannabis program.

Mississippi voters have overwhelmingly approved Amendment 65, an advocate-led ballot initiative to legalize medical cannabis.

Across the U.S. today, voters from Montana to New Jersey will consider a series of ballot initiatives that could represent yet another dramatic shift for the country away from our archaic cannabis and drug policies.