Medical Marijuana News

The fallout from coming new Health Canada medical marijuana laws has begun and likely will never really end. It's hard to conceive that patients who were once able to grow their own pot will be happy with having to get the drug by mail order.

Canadian Federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq said on Monday that as of April 1, 2014, growing medical marijuana at home will be illegal. Further, Health Canada is getting out of the medical marijuana business and will approve licensed providers.

Entrepreneur Jamen Shively held a press conference in Seattle on Thursday and, with former Mexican president Vincente Fox by his side, said he's going ahead with plans to market a national brand of marijuana. He believes he can be the Starbucks of pot.

Berkeley - Berkeley Patients Group, widely regarded as a model community citizen, has become the latest target of the federal government's war on medical marijuana dispensaries.

The state of Michigan has made a decision to trump its own zero tolerance driving under the influence law with the fact that it is illegal to persecute those with prescription pot. The result is those who smoke under a doctor's orders can drive high.

Los Angeles - Some 665 medical marijuana dispensaries operating in Los Angeles will need to start looking for new homes after voters Tuesday supported a ballot measure to shut most of them down.

The Illinois senate passed a medical marijuana bill on Friday by a 35-21 vote after a debate that saw several Republicans speak out against the bill. The bill already passed the Illinois House and now awaits Governor Pat Quinn's signature to become law.

In an ongoing effort to penetrate the global market for cannabis-based medicines, GW Pharmaceuticals, a UK-based company, announced a key victory in Europe early this morning.

A rally organized by the National Medical Marijuana Coalition took place in Lansing Michigan. Hundreds of protesters took part in the rally against medical marijuana discrimination and the abuse of power by legal officials in the state.

Concord - To legalize or not to legalize medical marijuana? That's the question New Hampshire lawmakers will debate in Senate hearings on Thursday.