USA Today -    After waiting in line for hours at a booth during a medical marijuana convention in San Francisco, Jeff Harrington needed only a two-minute consultation and a written recommendation to become a medical marijuana pati…

  Portland Press Herald -   Shifty producers outsmart regulators by altering formulas. HARTFORD, Conn. — A huge nationwide spike in hospitalizations last month caused by a class of drugs often called “synthetic marijuana&r…

  Hartford Courant -  Susan Gilchrist once took nine different medications to ease the chronic pain and fatigue of her multiple sclerosis. Gilchrist, 32, is now off all those drugs, finding more relief, she says, than she has in more …

  Times Union -  Unlike run-of-the-mill prescription drugs, you won't be able to pick up medical marijuana at the corner drugstore. The state's program calls for five licensed operators, each with a growing operation and four …

  New York Times -   BOULDER, Colo. — Recreational marijuana is both illegal and controversial in most of the country, and its relationship to food does not rise much above a joke about brownies or a stoner chef’s late-night p…

  Bloomberg -  A Justice Department memo sets the stage for Indian tribes to grow and sell marijuana, but do they even want to? There may be no better friend to Native Americans than President Barack Obama, who has gone out of his way…

  Forbes - There are now 24 jurisdictions with laws that legalize use of marijuana for medical purposes. Five of those jurisdictions—Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, and the District of Columbia—have gone so far as to legalize…

  Yahoo.com - Last week, while discussing the topic of illicit drugs with a mommy friend of mine, she told me how she was first introduced to marijuana: by her dad. He took her aside when she was a teenager, she said, and showed her his privat…

  The Economist -  The legal cannabis industry is run by minnows. As liberalisation spreads, that may not last. “FRESH and fruity, right?” says a bright-eyed young man behind the counter, wafting an open jar of something c…

  The Washington Post -  Advocates of legalizing marijuana should be pleased: Legalization enjoys strong support in Delaware, a 2016 target for the movement. Legalizing marijuana for adult recreational use enjoys 56 percent support in…

  CT Now - Medical marijuana hit the shelves in Connecticut just two weeks ago, but there's already been a push to change state regulations about how the medication is sold to chronically ill patients.   "Our Plant, Our R…

  Sales of medical marijuana in Connecticut are expected to begin next week as the first grower prepares to make shipments to dispensaries around the state, nearly two years after the state legalized the use of marijuana to relieve symptoms of…

  BETHEL -- When you turn on to Garella Road, the second building you see appears to be an ordinary home.   It has beige shingles, a nondescript white door and the typical suburban lawn common in the Stony Hill neighborhood, a sto…