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On Sunday, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed a bill that will add seizure conditions to Illinois’ medical cannabis program for both adults and minors. The new law also allows parents to seek permission for minors to access medical marijuana for other qualifying conditions.
Jacksonville-based attorney John Morgan has given a multi-million dollar donation to the medical marijuana campaign in Florida, Jacksonville.com reports, and will now invest even more in helping seriously ill Floridians find relief.
In January, 4 yr old Haleigh Cox stopped breathing and had to be resuscitated. They moved to Colorado so Haleigh could take a form of cannabis oil. Her mom said, "In four months she has gone from 200 seizures every day to 6 seizures on a bad day."
The medical cannabis community has recently received some major support from well known doctors, Dr. Oz and Dr. Sanjay Gupta. This trend of physicians supporting medical cannabis in droves has to do primarily with the spread of information about CBD rich cannabis and its numerous medicinal benefits.
British drug maker GW Pharmaceuticals released the first results on the efficacy and safety of Epidiolex, with an average reduction in seizure frequency of 50% among a group of 27 children and young adults with treatment-resistant epilepsy.
New York state is partnering with a British company to hold clinical trials for marijuana-based medication for children who have seizures that are resistant to their medicine.
VIP Cannabis' three retail marijuana stores and three growing operations in Denver are now up for auction on the internet over the next few weeks, after the DEA seized the facilities to pay for back taxes.
Earlier this year, Kentucky law makers passed a bill that would allow for the first legally approved medicinal use of cannabis in the state. Elation soon turned to heartbreak with the news that
The federal government can move forward with seizure proceedings against a San Francisco medical-marijuana dispensary that lost its appellate bid.
Patients who use medical marijuana for pain and other chronic symptoms can take an unwanted hit: Health Insurers don't cover the treatment
Here's the latest major medical marijuana news around the United States from the past week, as of April 16, 2014:
Shambhala Healing Center, a San Francisco medical marijuana dispensary told a federal judge that the U.S. government may have bamboozled it in a forfeiture order against its landlord.
Ladybud raises concerns about how the marketing of Hemp-Derived CBD is being conducted with many pertinent questions hotly debated and largely unanswered.
The Mississippi General Assembly passed HB 1231, legalizing certain, very limited medical marijuana extracts for patients suffering from seizure disorders.
At a hearing, members of the Illinois Senate Public Health Committee advanced a bill adding seizures as qualifying medical conditions in a state program.
The Missouri Senate is considering legislation to legalize marijuana use by patients diagnosed by a physician with a debilitating medical condition.
An Idaho state trooper arrested and searched a 70-year-old Washington man solely because of his license plate from Colorado, where marijuana is legal, the man claims in a federal lawsuit.
NORML filed a brief with the Massachusetts Supreme Court urging the court to place more limits on police questioning and searches for marijuana.
