Beckley News : Cannabis - Marijuana

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island - A medical marijuana dispensary is asking state health regulators for permission to operate a delivery service.

Evidence is mounting that our drugs laws are not working.

Amanda Feilding says trepanation might have benefits for all of us.

The packed hearing room erupted in cheers Tuesday when members of the Regulations Review Committee approved the rules for how medical marijuana will be grown and dispensed in Connecticut.

Stay away! That's what the city of Ansonia's planning and zoning commission is saying about medical marijuana.

Some well known and others less well known, the four are on the list of applicants who have begun the state licensing process.

Both Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and Consumer Protection Commissioner William M. Rubenstein anticipate the eventual approval of the new rules by the 14-member Regulation Review Committee.

Is it the thin end of the wedge for a policy shift in America's war on drugs?

2013 has been an extremely busy year at the state level for marijuana.

Even though some US states have legalized marijuana for medical or recreational use, the Drug Enforcement Administration has ordered all security and armored vehicle companies to stop servicing legal cannabis dispensaries.

New Jersey's medical marijuana program is a failed experiment but one that Delaware and other states seem enthusiastic to repeat.

Pleasant Grove • Jennifer May has tried 25 treatments in 10 years, a mix of prescribed diets and drugs, to quiet the lightning in her son’s brain. Only two eased Stockton May’s seizures.

An outlaw Albanian village has built a fortune from the cultivation of cannabis worth as much as half the country’s GDP, and it’s off-limits to the police.

Last November Washington voters decided that the possession of small quantities of marijuana should be legal for adults. But are we ready to de-felonize possession

My 91 year old mother in law fell and banged her tailbone. She doesn't like narcotic pain pills and anti-inflammatories did not help much. She had already gotten approval for medical marijuana previously, because of insomnia.

On November 2012, during the 103th Congress, two U.S.  states, Colorado and Washington have been the first two states in legalizing recreational marijuana, signing the beginning of the end for prohibition and the War on Drugs.  Mr.

Cannabis can cure cancer! This is the future in medicine! It's a remarkable plant with many benefits and uses: medical, economic, agricultural, industrial!

Much of what we know about cannabinoids and medical marijuana stems from the groundbreaking work of this courtly Israeli.

Talk long enough to anyone in the business of growing or selling medical marijuana , and you'll hear plenty about risk.

For now, Congress won't repeal or repair 280E -- Congress doesn't want to give the marijuana industry a tax cut. But the industry is right about one thing: If 280E is repealed, a Federal excise tax on marijuana will take its place.

No towns have been identified as yet by applicants.