Archive for month: January, 2017

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EASTLAKE, Ohio – The city of Eastlake is continuing to consider a proposal to build a medical marijuana plant in the city.

City Council held an informative meeting tonight, laying out the proposal and what it would mean for the community.

The idea is to build a 50-thousand square foot plant that would serve as a medical marijuana cultivation and distribution center.

It would be built on the now vacant site of the former JFK Community Center.

The city…

Arkansas’ medical cannabis program could be whittled down to oblivion with a slew of Republican-introduced amendments. Patients could be forced to bake their own edibles, ban smoking in nearly every location and give local governments more time to ban cannabis collectives. State Representative Robin Lundstrum (R-District 87) introduced three bills which would limit the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment.

HB-1392 would ban medical cannabis edibles. The bill would amend the Arkansas Medical…

Minnesota’s medical marijuana program needs extra state funding to cover the costs of its patient database and inspections of drug manufacturers, just a few of the regulations that make it one of the most restrictive such laws in the country.

It’s the latest reminder of the financial constraints on the program borne from the heavy restrictions on Minnesota’s 2014 law.

The plant form of marijuana remains banned under the law, requiring the state’s two medical manufacturers to concoct marijuana oils, pills and vapors with routine…

Choice Organics

1:58 p.m. MT Jan. 30, 2017

In Colorado it’s now common to see several cannabis medical or recreational retailers within a relatively small radius. What…

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah proposal that would allow universities to study medical marijuana has cleared its first committee meeting.

Members of a House health and human services committee voted unanimously Monday in favor of the plan, saying the research would help to flesh out when the drug should be prescribed, how much should be administered and its potential side effects.

Utah Medical Association CEO Michelle McOmber spoke in…

By Michael R. Blood and Dont Thomson, Associated Press

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The future of California’s legal marijuana industry is being shaped in a warren of cubicles tucked inside a retired basketball arena, where a garden of paper cannabis leaves sprouts on file cabinets and a burlap sack advertising “USA Home Grown” dangles from a wall.

Here, in the outskirts of Sacramento, a handful of government workers face a daunting task: By next year, craft regulations and rules that will govern the state’s emerging legal pot market,…

Jerick Sablan , jpsablan@guampdn.com
3:24 p.m. ChT Jan. 29, 2017

Mohave Green’s Choice Cannabis in Mohave Valley, Arizona, grows marijuana indoors.(Photo: Nick Oza/The Arizona Republic)

The Department of Public Health and Social Services is recommending applicants for medical marijuana operations get certification from the Patient Focused Certification Program.

UPDATED: Orlando TV’s public-affairs programs look at the Pro Bowl, medical marijuana and the first week of Donald Trump’s presidency.

The lineup:

Greg Warmoth and “Central Florida Spotlight” focus on the Pro Bowl at 12:30 p.m. Sunday on WFTV-Channel 9. The game will be played at 8 that night at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, and the show was recorded outside the stadium. The guests are Steve Hogan, CEO of Florida Citrus Sports; Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer; Peter…

“They want to get it right,” said Sen. Jerry Klein, R-Fessenden, the chairman of the Delayed Bills Committee. “This is a big deal.”

North Dakota voters approved the use of marijuana for defined medical conditions in the November election. A separate piece of legislation, signed into law this week by Gov. Doug Burgum, suspends provisions of the Compassionate Care Act in order to give state agencies time to craft regulations.

Discrimination hearing set

A bill banning discrimination based on sexual orientation will get a hearing Wednesday, Feb….

New Hampshire legalized medical marijuana three years ago, and since then thousands have been able to find relief through medical cannabis where there was nothing else that has helped. Now the state will have the opportunity to consider multiple bills, all aimed at expanding access by putting additional medical conditions on the list of those that qualify for the state’s medical marijuana program.

The bills were introduced by State Representative Joseph Lachance as one of his final acts in the House of…