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In the United States, 25 states have legalized medical marijuana, including 19 that let patients with a prescription buy pot from dispensaries. Proponents argue that expanding the availability of medical marijuana reduces opioid abuse and overdose deaths because it gives people an alternative for pain relief.

It’s no surprise that cannabis may possess skin-healing benefits. All the elements are there.

When I started looking into medical marijuana, I was skeptical. I was not a recreational user, and I had not had any luck with other natural remedies.

A study released just last year reveals that cannabis improves the way in which the body heals broken bones.

If Dr. Larry Bedard has his way, Marin General Hospital would become the first acute-care medical center in California to allow patients to openly consume medical marijuana in the hospital.

Medical marijuana may have a potential role in oncology for treating anticipatory and refractory chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting, for treating refractory cancer pain, and as an antitumor agent, a new review concludes.

Researchers plan to start recruiting veterans in September, adding two participants per month, per site. The study should run about two years.

The state's tightly controlled program has seen high costs and low enrollment. Pain patients might turn the tide.

After some success in using substance to treat epileptics, researchers to check effect of cannabis oils on individuals with severe behavioral problems.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A New Mexico family is suing the state's health department claiming that medical marijuana growing limitations hinder producers from making a certain cannabis oil that helps with their infant daughter's rare disorder.

We rarely worry about marijuana. So why is it still a Schedule I drug?

With legalization of marijuana increasing across the United States, there is more focus than ever on identifying the risks and benefits of the drug. A new study provides further insight, after finding men experience greater pain relief with marijuana use than women.

A mainland-based laboratory is expanding to Hawaiʻi with a facility on Maui that will offer cannabis testing as the state’s Medical Marijuana Dispensary Program gets underway.

Because the topic still is not usually covered in medical school, seasoned doctors, as well as younger ones, often consider themselves ill-equipped.

The look inside the state's secretive program comes as the struggling medical marijuana industry in Illinois is poised to grow.

For the first time in Central Florida, a medical marijuana product has been delivered to a patient.

Glaucoma is the name for a group of eye diseases that affect the eyes and vision.

Severe pain drove this average Minnesotan to seek the comforts of medical cannabis. Here's how things worked out for her.

With nearly 3,000 caregivers, competition has ramped up as operations get larger and businesses look for a niche.

Physicians like Francis D’Ambrosio have substantial reason to believe that cannabinoids may indeed be effective medical treatment.