Archive for month: April, 2016

Medical marijuana may serve as a non-fatal alternative to prescription opioids when it comes to chronic pain management, according to some health experts.

In a New York Times opinion piece, medical researcher Colleen Barry posits that while the rise in opioid prescriptions has mirrored the expansion of medical marijuana laws, only states with such laws in place saw a dramatic reduction in overdoses related to prescribed painkillers:

But using state-level death certificate data from 1999 to 2010, my colleagues and I found that the…

An Eagle Mountain resident, James Allen Donaldson, 62, was among 25 individuals arrested April 19 in conjunction with an illegal medical marijuana enterprise.

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For two years Nebraska lawmakers had a chance to pass a medical marijuana bill and for two years it has failed. This has families of those with certain medical conditions taking matters into their own hands.  Shari Lawlor is very active with Nebraska Families 4 Medical Cannabis and says they are hoping to gather enough signatures to put the issue on the November 2016 ballot.

Lawlor says, “When you go to something of this extent it takes a lot of capital. At this time we are raising money and besides the lawmakers it is going to happen. …

A bill that would have expanded Iowa’s medical marijuana law has failed in the Republican-controlled House.

The chamber voted 31-63 Monday night to turn down a proposal that would have expanded the list of medical conditions eligible for possession of cannabis oil.

The bill would not have allowed the production of the oil in Iowa. House Democrats said it would have forced residents to travel outside of the state to access the oil, violating federal law.

The measure faced an uncertain future in the Democratic-majority Senate, where there was…

By David Migoya and Ricardo Baca, The Denver Post

State marijuana regulators on Friday announced a large recall of medical cannabis grown with unapproved pesticides and sold by a business with locations in Boulder and Glendale.

The recall appears linked to others in which Guardian, a product that had been sold as all-natural, was found to contain concentrations of a pesticide banned for use on marijuana.

The…

Three groups stepped forward last week to ask Santa Rosa for permission to open the city’s first commercial medical marijuana growing operations.

The requests, and several more expected in coming days, reflect the high level of interest the marijuana industry is showing in establishing larger-scale cultivation businesses in the city under new rules approved by the City Council in February.

Three outfits aligned with the local cannabis industry submitted paperwork to the city last week for conditional use permits to grow marijuana in…