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New York’s Strict Medical Marijuana Program Sees Slow Start

When medical marijuana became available this month in New York, Brittany Barger was one of the first patients to navigate the state’s rules and make it through a dispensary door. “When you’re as sick as I am, you’ll try anything,” …

Paper Ponders Marijuana as Medicine

While many states have pushed for new laws to legalize the use of marijuana for medical reasons, there are few well-controlled studies that demonstrate its effectiveness. As such, most major state and national medical professional societies have not yet supported …

Florida Medical Marijuana Backers Plot Strategy After Ballot Measure Fails

Supporters of medical marijuana may have lost their fight at the ballot box, but they’re promising to take it back to the statehouse. A day after Amendment 2 narrowly failed in Florida, the chairman and chief financier of the initiative …