Reforms to the state's medical marijuana program will allow Connecticut hospitals, universities, growers and dispensaries to conduct research into medical cannabis, supplementing the limited federal research available on the drug's palliative effects.

The Department of Consumer Protection will begin accepting research proposals Oct. 1. The move is part of a number of changes to the medical marijuana law, including a provision to allow patients under 18 to use the drug.

A Parkinson’s patient has provided indisputable proof of marijuana’s ability to alleviate the degenerative disease.

Ian Frizell of the UK has spent the past 20 years dealing with a severe case of Parkinson’s disease that causes nearly his entire body to shake uncontrollably.

In a video posted earlier this month, Frizell explains that traditional Parkinson’s medications make him feel “extremely unwell.”

He steps away to consume just 30mg of marijuana via a vaporizer and returns about twenty minutes later.

“The sense of relief is overwhelming,” Frizell says as he sits still, completely free of the tremors.

Cancer is the second most common cause of death in the U.S. resulting in at least 584,881 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Recent animal studies show that marijuana extracts can help kill certain cancer cells and even reduce the size of some of them. But, marijuana is still illegal in several states. The number of people who’ve died due to an overdose of marijuana? None.

GW Pharmaceuticals' Epidiolex outpaces placebo in a second trial in Lennox-Gastaut syndrome patients.

Following today's announcement, GW Pharmaceuticals PLC's (NASDAQ:GWPH) Epidiolex has reduced monthly seizure rates in three separate epilepsy trials, including two trials involving patients with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, a rare form of epilepsy. Epidiolex's ability to lower seizure rates in epilepsy patients clears the way for the company to file for FDA approval of Epidiolex next year. If the FDA approves Epidiolex, it will become the first FDA-approved cannabis therapy on the market.

Full page of mailer takes aim at attorney John Morgan.

The campaign to defeat Amendment 2, the medical marijuana question on November’s ballot, is heating up.

The “No on 2” campaign is telling the same story it told two years ago, when the amendment lost by a bare margin.

And now, thousands of slick brochures are showing up in mailboxes across Florida, telling horror stories about medical marijuana. Last time, the initiative lost by fewer than three points.

With memories of the Global Medicinal Cannabis Summit: Advancements in the Age of Cannabis still fresh in our minds, VolteFace has been particularly fortunate to receive the following in-depth review of the event – penned by Dr Callum Swift, who graduated with an MA in Neuroscience from Trinity College, Dublin.

In December, Nicole and Ernie Nunez brought their beautiful baby girl, Amylea, into the world. However, when they brought her home, things quickly took a turn for the worst.

“About a day after we went home from delivery is when she had her first seizure,” Nicole said. “She has a rare form of epilepsy. They don’t know exactly the type.”

For the past two months, the Nunez family has been desperately trying to treat their daughter’s condition. Doctors in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where the family is from, were unable to find a cause and unable to treat young Amylea. So, the family has fled to Colorado.

Nicole stays at the hospital in Aurora while Ernie drives back and forth to take care of the couple’s other children and to work.

Two and half years after the Florida Legislature approved medical marijuana the state and growers continue to fight in court over who is allowed to grow and sell the plant.

Two and a half years after the Florida Legislature approve medical marijuana, the state struggles to implement a regulatory structure for growing and selling of marijuana.(Photo: tvirbickis, Getty Images/iStockp)

An administrative law judge says the Florida Department of Health has made a mess of medical marijuana regulations. Judge John Van Laningham’s expected ruling in a southwest Florida case sometime next month could throw the state’s budding cannabis industry into total disarray.

New data shows changes to Montana’s medical marijuana systhem left about 9,000 patients without providers.

The Montana Department of Public Health & Human Services recently released its September report on the marijuana registry.

It’s the first report after a new rule took effect August 31st, limiting each provider to serving just three patients.

The numbers show just 880 medical marijuana patients in the state were retained by their providers while te total number of patients has fallen to 12,730, making it the lowest in nearly a year. Some 55 providers stopped serving patients altogether.

It was a sunny summer's day at Slane Castle, Co Meath, the annual rock gig, with Freddie Mercury and Queen belting out their greatest hits. Tens of thousands of fans were in front of the stage, whereas I had the pleasure of a personal invitation from Henry Lord Mountcharles and the late promoter Jim Aiken and was with dozens of A-listers in the private grounds of the castle with access to indoors, where we partook of Champagne and strawberries and cream.