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Cherokee Leaders Decriminalize Marijuana in North Carolina

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ALBANY – Patients and state lawmakers on Tuesday made a final push for New York to pass a bill that would provide emergency access to medical marijuana for ill patients.
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USDA Announces Two More Hemp Insurance Programs - Cannabis News

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Syracuse, N.Y. -- Medical marijuana dispensaries may be coming to Utica and Rochester.
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Legal New York Pot Means New Police Strategy

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Three mothers and their sick kids share how medical marijuana has helped
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New Jersey lawmakers to seek marijuana legalization - Cannabis News

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Kalel Santiago, 9, who has autism, spoke his first words shortly after starting hemp-oil treatments.
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Comedy and tragedy: When the GOP debate turned to marijuana

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Small number will certify their patients for medical marijuana, survey finds. 
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Retailers seeking to offer recreational and medical cannabis can now apply for CT licenses

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ST. PAUL, Minn. - Sarah Wellington thought she had everything squared away to register for Minnesota's medical marijuana program.
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The marijuana industry is becoming more inclusive, but progress is slow

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WALLKILL,N.Y. - Don Crawford comes from a long line of Orange County farmers. Though he no longer tends dairy cows, he still cuts hay for the thriving equestrian industry, and cringes at the creep of the suburbs.
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With Recreational Weed legal, officials expect Medical Marijuana licenses to dwindle

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Almost a year ago, Gov. Rick Scott signed the Charlotte’s Web bill into law, legalizing a non-euphoric strain of marijuana for medical use in Florida.
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Medical marijuana grows under strict conditions in Illinois as industry expands – Cannabis News

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Georgia medical marijuana refugees are returning home from places like Colorado, now that they have temporary permits to legally use cannabis oil in the state.
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Using marijuana may affect your ability to think and plan, study says

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An average of 44 Americans die every day from an overdose of prescription painkillers, a trend the Centers for Disease Control calls a national epidemic.
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Marijuana and the Effects it has on Sleeping - Cannabis News

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AUSTIN, Texas - The Texas House gave final approval Tuesday to a limited medical marijuana bill that would give epilepsy patients access to trace amounts of cannabis oil
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City councilor wants Edmonton to be world’s cannabis capital

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Medical marijuana could be legal in Texas, sort of.
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Walk-in medical marijuana certification clinics now operating in Maine

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The proposed Therapeutic Hemp Medical Access Act would lift federal prohibitions on using marijuana strains that are medically beneficial to prevent certain seizures.
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Michigan marijuana petition group sues to get on November ballot – Cannabis News

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Calls to poison control centers in the United States related to synthetic marijuana spiked in April, and May could be a record month as well, according to the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC)
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Here’s How Cannabinoids Quell Anxiety - Cannabis News

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Harvest underway at East Coast’s first legal outdoor pot farm - Cannabis News

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Reading, writing ... and reefer? 
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New Jersey releases revised drug testing policy for law enforcement

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NASHVILLE — It's now legal to use cannabis oil for limited medical purposes in Tennessee.
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Oregon State University Scores Hemp Cattle Feed Research Grant

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Marijuana and alcohol are often pitted up against each other in an effort to determine which one is the healthier vice.
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Cannabis Canada: Pot generates $8.16B toward Canada's economy - Cannabis News

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Legislators failed by just three votes 213-210, to add an amendment, which would have prevented the Department of Veterans Affairs from prohibiting the doctors at Veterans Administration (VA) hospitals about medical marijuana discussion with veterans as an alternative treatment, to the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations bill.
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House Votes To Let VA Doctors Recommend Medical Marijuana To Vets – Marijuana News

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Post-traumatic stress disorder, along with migraines and irritable bowel syndrome, have been recommended as additions to the list of conditions that can be treated by medical marijuana in Illinois.
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