MEDICAL MARIJUANA

24 companies picked to start Alabama’s medical marijuana industry 0
- MEDICAL MARIJUANA
- August 14, 2023
The Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission has awarded licenses for a second time to businesses that intend to be part of Alabama’s new medical marijuana industry. The AMCC, meeting in Montgomery, voided the license awards it announced two months ago and voted again on the companies that will cultivate, process, transport, test, and dispense medical marijuana
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Chairperson of an Alabama commission that regulates medical marijuana providers steps down following lawsuit 0
- MEDICAL MARIJUANA
- August 6, 2023
The chairperson of the Alabama Medical Cannabis Commission stepped down on Thursday after a lawsuit challenged his eligibility to serve on the board. Dr. Steven Stokes, a radiation oncologist from Dothan, Alabama, submitted his resignation Thursday from the commission tasked with regulating medical marijuana providers in the state. “Dr. Stokes has a genuine desire to see medical
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Inside Utah’s medical marijuana program 0
- MEDICAL MARIJUANA
- July 30, 2023
In a nondescript building in an industrial section of South Salt Lake, there’s a big bag of weed labeled Blue Dream — several bags, actually — stored in large Igloo coolers in a chilly room called the vault. Meticulously cultivated on a former turkey farm in Sanpete County, the hand-trimmed marijuana buds will be machine-dropped
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Irritable bowel syndrome added to list of qualifying condition for medical marijuana 0
- MEDICAL MARIJUANA
- July 23, 2023
Irritable bowel syndrome patients can now use medical marijuana for treatment. The State Medical Board made IBS the 26th qualifying condition for medical marijuana under Ohio law, and rejected obsessive-compulsive syndrome and autism spectrum disorder as qualifying conditions during Wednesday’s meeting. “While this addition will help expand patient access to medical marijuana and help many Ohio patients with
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Medical marijuana industry booming, Arkansas legislature make change to taxes 0
- MEDICAL MARIJUANA
- July 17, 2023
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — Since the first medical marijuana dispensary opened in 2019, Arkansas has reached almost $1 billion in sales, but the legislature has changed where that tax money will go. Instead of the money going towards some state agencies and UAMS, the tax dollars will be used to help pay off student school
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Bill would allow Pa. patients to get medical marijuana regardless of illness 0
- MEDICAL MARIJUANA
- July 10, 2023
Legislation that would loosen up Pennsylvania’s Medical Marijuana Act to allow a patient’s doctor to certify medical cannabis as a suitable treatment regardless of the patient’s medical condition is advancing in the state Senate. The Senate Law & Justice Committee voted 10-1 to approve a bill that would make sweeping changes to the state’s 7-year-old
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