Category Archives: Medical Marijuana

WILMINGTON, Del. — Voting along party lines, the Delaware state Senate gave final approval Thursday to a measure that decriminalizes the possession and private use of small amounts of marijuana, and Gov. Jack Markell almost immediately signed the legislation into law. Delaware Gov. Jack Markell signed a marijuana decriminalization bill Thursday after it passed the…

OPIOID ADDICTION is a crisis, and stories of young people dying from these drugs are heartbreaking. However, Meredith Warren’s column linking these tragedies to legalization of marijuana for adult use is ill-informed and unhelpful (“The opioid battle is lost when marijuana is legalized,” Opinion, June 18). For many opioid victims, these drugs were not the…

As Maryland and other states move to make medical marijuana available to patients, former service members are still barred from getting the drug from the Veterans Administration. Marijuana remains in a legally precarious position, even as public support for its legalization and use to treat illnesses grows. Washington, Colorado and the District of Columbia have…

Even as marijuana sales continue to increase in Colorado, pot prices just keep getting lower. In the past year alone, the cost of an eighth of an ounce of recreational marijuana in Colorado has dropped by an estimated 40 percent, from between $50-$70 to about $30-$45. The reason, according to a new report by brokerage…

I commend The Oregonian/OregonLive and reporter Noelle Crombie for the series "A Tainted High," which found that multiple samples of medical marijuana purchased in Oregon, intended for patients who are often immunocompromised, tested positive for harmful pesticides. The Oregonian not only revealed the extent of the contamination of medical marijuana products, but also exposed a…

It was a classic political fundraiser — semi-formal, with chicken, potatoes and salad on the menu. The jovial donors sipped gin cocktails and Oregon pinots at the Left Bank Annex on Portland's East Side earlier this month. But the 300 attendees who came to support Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Oregon, represent a newly energized group: They're…

On July 1, recreational marijuana will officially be legal in Oregon. Some kind of celebration, a commemoration of the occasion, was inevitable. But that party won't come from the usual suspects in Portland. Hempstalk, the time-honored yet controversial cannabis fair, was denied a permit this year. High Times, which brings its Cannabis Cup events to…

It's been a little over a year since Colorado began allowing stores to sell marijuana for recreational use and the market continues to grow rapidly. But there are clouds (ahem) on the horizon. Nicholas Colas and his team at Convergex, a global brokerage company based in New York, surveyed a number of marijuana stores in…

“Grandma doesn’t really understand she’s taking medical cannabis,” a caregiver relates with a smile. After grandma broke her hip, the doctor prescribed the painkiller Percocet, but it made her nauseous, anxious and irritable — common side effects. So the family sought an alternative, and found that a CBD-rich tincture quelled her pain, insomnia, and anxiety.…

The introduction of state laws allowing the use of marijuana for medical purposes does not lead to an increase in the use of the drug among adolescents within those states, the results of a multiyear nationwide survey reveal. However, the researchers found that adolescent use of marijuana was higher in those states with medical marijuana…