DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – A familiar issue is making its way back to the ballot: marijuana legalization.

A recent Public Policy Poll shows 3 in 4 Ohioans want to legalize medical marijuana.

The Quinnipiac University poll before the November 2014 election showed 90 percent of Ohioans wanted medical marijuana legalized.

Even after ResponsibleOhio’s Issue 3 to legalize and monopolize marijuana failed, the latest numbers show support for medical use of the drug is still strong.

A new advocate group for the drug says its stepping in to give Ohioans want they want.

Just two minutes before the Monday grand opening of Logan Square's first medical marijuana dispensary, co-owner Doug Marks steps out of the space's Milwaukee Avenue entrance. The entryway is easy to miss—the word "moca," short for Modern Cannabis, is stamped on the door in bright yellow, pink, and blue, but the words nearly blend in with the mass of posters and graffiti that dominates the adjacent wall. 

A slow trickle of people would follow, but it was hard to tell from the outside: anyone without a medical marijuana card—including the media—were barred from entering the dispensary's main floor.

For many decades, one of the strongest arguments for the legalization of cannabis has been the potential medicinal benefits derived from the plant. What we do know is that within the human body exists the Endocannabinoid System (ECS), a group of receptors throughout the brain and central nervous system that respond to compounds from the cannabis plant. The issue, however, is that there are over 400 natural compounds and at least 138 identified cannabinoids, all having various effects on the body.

The United Kingdom is starting to talk about cannabis as a medicine.

End Our Pain, a campaign to give patients legal access to medicinal cannabis, launched earlier this month.

This new movement, that coincides with the start of a medicinal cannabis storyline on Coronation Street, has already generated considerable media attention.

Housing firm Eigen Haard gave Amsterdam HIV patient Rudolf Hillebrand an ultimatum – either stop cultivating his own cannabis, or leave his apartment. This is despite the fact that the court ruled that Hillebrand can continue growing his own cannabis.

Last week the court in Amsterdam ruled that Hillebrand may continue growing his own medicinal marijuana.He uses the cannabis to fight nausea after taking his HIV medication. The Netherlands does have a designated firm that cultivates medicinal marijuana, but the available varieties does not work for him.

The long-term, daily use of cannabis is associated with improved analgesia and reduced opioid use in patients with treatment-resistant chronic pain conditions, according to clinical trial data reported online ahead of print in The Clinical Journal of Pain.

Investigators with Hebrew University in Israel evaluated the use of cannabis on pain in a cohort of 176 patients, each of whom had been previously unresponsive to all conventional pain medications. Subjects inhaled THC-dominant cannabis daily (up to 20 grams per month) for a period of at least six months. 

B.C. Coroners Service says the baby died Friday of natural causes

The severely ill baby whose parents wanted to treat with cannabis oil has died, the B.C. Coroners Service has confirmed.

Mary Jane Pierce was born prematurely at 25 weeks with serious health problems, including brain bleeding, cerebral palsy and severe seizures.

Her parents, Justin Pierce and Michelle Arnold, had fought to treat her symptoms with cannabis oil, which they said had helped each of them with their own epilepsy issues. 

The B.C. Coroners Service said the baby girl died Friday at B.C. Children's Hospital. 

Now that fentanyl is the leading cause of opioid overdose in Ontario, it’s clear that the dangerous narcotic is a cross-Canada problem.

As many users are unaware they’re even taking the drug, the crisis is likely to continue to expand, Dr. Matthew Young of the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse (CCSA) tells Yahoo Canada News.

“One of the things that I think has been a little bit misunderstood about the whole issue of fentanyl is that most of those who end up either fatally or non-fatally overdosing on fentanyl were not seeking that drug,” says Young, a senior researcher with the CCSA.

OCALA, Fla. - An Ocala family has made the painful decision to pack up everything and move from Central Florida, across the country to Colorado for their young son.  They say Colorado’s medical marijuana laws play a big part in the reason why.

He’s only 5-years-old, but for a moment, put yourself in Shawn’s shoes. Being that child, is not easy. “From the time he was a month old. All we know is hospitals,” Dawn Zuzio, Shawn’s mother said. “Doctors. Specialists. Surgeries. It’s hard.”

It’s hard, Shawn’s mother said, because he lives with Chronic Lung disease, dozens of medications, epilepsy, a hole in his heart, autism, and a trachea in his throat. “The list goes on,” Zuzio said. 

Have you heard about Rick Simpson from Canadian Nova Scotia and how hard he tried to legalize cannabis oil as it helped him and many others to cure cancer? Rick thought that the world was ready to hear his story about the health benefits of cannabis oil.

After he had several attempts to get cannabis oil allowed with the help of many testimonies from people who were also cured, he realized that the cancer industry doesn’t want to find the cure for cancer.

He used to make cannabis oil and give it free to those who needed it after he was cured from skin cancer. Many people from his town were also cured from various disorders and lung cancer as well.