Amanda Amsdill, left, listens as lawyer Matt Newburg, left, speaks with her parents, Debra and Jim Amsdill, during a preliminary examination in 2013. The Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled the Amsdills must stand trial on charges ranging from conducting a criminal enterprise to conspiracy to deliver or manufacture marijuana.(Photo: MELISSA WAWZYSKO/TIMES HERALD)

The owners and some employees of Blue Water Compassion Center facilities in St. Clair, Sanilac and Tuscola counties will proceed to trial in January on charges ranging from conducting a criminal enterprise to conspiracy to deliver or manufacture marijuana.

ISLANDIA, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — The village of Islandia is not one of the locations being mentioned as a site for any of the state’s 20 approved medical marijuana dispensaries, but that didn’t stop its Board of Trustees from passing a law anyway making the sale of pot there illegal.

Some residents praised the pre-emptive rejection.

“It could destroy your life,” one man told WCBS 880 Long Island Bureau Chief Mike Xirinachs. “Just say no.”

“Kids are going to abuse that stuff,” another man said. “Especially I have three stepkids, so I don’t want them anywhere near that stuff.”

Gov. Jerry Brown signed a series of bills last week to finally regulate the medical marijuana industry decades after California first legalized cannabis for medical use and the major players are all claiming victory.

Environmentalists, business groups, pot farmers, local governments and consumer groups are all claiming benefits from the passage of three laws that regulate the sale, transport, and growth of medical marijuana.

Brown and state lawmakers crafted the regulations to help manage California’s unregulated billion-dollar medical marijuana industry, according to the LA Times.

A Leek man is calling upon the Government to make medicinal Cannabis legal.

Jacob Barrow was born with a Diaphragmatic-Hernia which resulted in the need for immediate life saving surgery to correct his internal problems.

Following a series of problems he has found that medical Cannabis is his best option for a pain-free life.

Now he is calling on the Government, which will be debating the issue in the House of Commons on Monday, October 12, to make Cannabis legal for medicinal purposes.

Mr Barrow, who was born and raised in Leek, said: "Six months after being born my scarring, which initially stretched around my abdomen spine to spine, ruptured and I needed further corrective surgery.

MONTPELIER — New administrative rules approved by lawmakers Thursday will allow medical marijuana dispensaries to provide therapeutic hemp products and deliver medicinal hemp and marijuana products to the 2,200 people on the state’s registry.

The Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules unanimously approved the new rules after settling on language to exempt farmers from the requirements that the state’s four medical marijuana dispensaries are subject to for hemp production. Some hemp advocates raised concerns at LCAR’s September meeting that the proposed rules could impact the agricultural production of hemp.

The committee has the authority to approve such rules rather than sending them to the full Legislature.

Almirall has presented new clinical evidences of Sativex, the only medicine derived from cannabinoids to treat spasticity symptoms in MS, at the European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ECTRIMS), Barcelona.

The European trials studied the effectiveness, safety and tolerability of the treatment in patients with spasticity symptoms in Multiple Sclerosis

Sativex is the first prescription medicine based on cannabinoids, active ingredients tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD) extracted from the Cannabis sativa plant, an add-on therapy indicated to treat symptoms of moderate or severe spasticity in people with multiple sclerosis who are not responding to other antispastic treatments.

The Canadian Medical Association and the federal government apply a far more rigid standard to prescribing marijuana, resulting in negative — or even deadly consequences, say experts from the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS.

Medical marijuana is held to a different standard than other prescription drugs despite research suggesting it has therapeutic benefits, say three experts from the centre in a commentary publish Friday in the Journal of the Canadian Public Health Association.

“When it comes to prescription marijuana, patients’ needs should be considered above political considerations,” Dr. Julio Montaner, one of the authors, said in a news release. “There could be great harm in ignoring the medical uses of marijuana.”

The marijuana extract tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) isn't effective in preventing nausea and vomiting after surgery in patients at high risk of this common complication, reports a study inAnesthesia & Analgesia.

Intravenous THC had a "negligible" effect on postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV), as well as "unpredictable psychotropic and sedative side effects," according to the clinical trial by Dr. Lorenz G. Theiler and colleagues of University of Bern, Switzerland. At a time of growing interest in the uses of medical marijuana, the results suggest that marijuana compounds (cannabinoids) aren't a good option to prevent PONV.

VANCOUVER – Two local leaders in HIV/AIDS research are breaking ranks from their medical association, calling for it to change its approach to medical marijuana.

The rules don’t rely on the most up-to-date science, according to Doctors Thomas Kerr and Julio Montaner with the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS.

They argue pot can be just as effective in treating pain as other drugs, but it’s being held to a higher standard by the Canadian Medical Association.

Medical cannabis (pictured) has a good safety profile in patients with chronic pain, according to researchers

Cannabis is widely used by patients with chronic pain to self-medicate but its long-term safety profile is not well established. 

Researchers from Canada found the rate of serious adverse events among 215 chronic pain patients prescribed cannabis for a year was similar to that of 216 control patients who did not take cannabis. 

“We found no evidence of harmful effects on cognitive function or blood tests among cannabis consumers and we observed a significant improvement in their levels of pain, symptom distress, mood and quality of life compared with controls,” says lead author Mark Ware from McGill University, Montreal.