In Oakland, California resides the country's largest medical marijuana dispensary, Harborside Health Center. Here is where employees dispense prepackaged medical marijuana, cannabis-infused edibles and potted marijuana plants to a steady stream of users who come from across the state. Each patient that steps through Harborside's doors has a written doctor's recommendation for medical marijuana use and belongs to this prestigious members-only collective. Since 1996, medical marijuana has been leg... Tags: Untagged Read More

In a facility where the sounds of power tools echo throughout, Donald Trump's surplus of blackjack tables are scattered about and where purple casino carpeting still covers the floor inside, a landscape is being altered to become one of the top-functioning medical marijuana facilities in New Jersey. Here, is where the seeds for South Jersey's first medical marijuana cultivation farm are expected to be planted next month and where plastic drams of marijuana are scheduled to be sold. The soon to ... Tags: Untagged Read More

Largely in part thanks to a proposal that would double the state's medical marijuana program budget, New Jersey Health Commissioner Mary O'Dowd says that the state could now open up more medical marijuana dispensaries to service the patients in the state who are suffering greatly. This announcement comes after Governor Chris Christie proposed a $1.6 million budget for the state's three-year-old medical marijuana program. His proposed budget is more than twice the current spending plan, and was c... Tags: Untagged Read More

At a scheduled news conference on Tuesday, it was announced that a group of nearly 250 Illinois physicians completely support the allowance of patients who suffer from chronic and debilitating illnesses to obtain and use medical marijuana if their doctor recommends it. Patients must receive a written recommendation from their physician in order to be qualified to use medical marijuana and obtain a state-issued medical marijuana identification card. Dr. Margaret Millar, a physician out of Moline... Tags: Untagged Read More

With the two-year anniversary of the signing of Delaware’s medical marijuana act approaching in May, lawmakers in the state are looking to move forward with the now-halted medical marijuana program and bring it back to life. Governor Jack A. Markell signed legislation into action to allow state-regulated distribution of medical marijuana in good faith back on May 13, 2011. Since then, the program has gone year after year in a state of a dead standstill and no forward progression on the program ... Tags: Untagged Read More