All posts tagged "New York"

Politics

Cities Build ‘Safer Consumption Spaces’ for Opiates, But Not Cannabis

On Feb. 6, San Francisco voted to open “safer consumption spaces” where citizens can legally inject...

Legal

Facing Deportation For a Decades-Old Cannabis Crime

The story of a young man from Colombia whose two minor marijuana possession charges from the...

Cannabis

Dispensary Review: Columbia Care Manhattan

Manhattan-based dispensary is open for select patients.

Politics

Two Out of Three New Yorkers Support Legalizing Marijuana

Favorable public support polls are often a major step towards precipitating a victory for legal cannabis.

Cannabis

Many Veterans Have to Break the Law to Use Medical Cannabis

For veterans in states with restrictive medical programs, acquiring the medicinal benefits of cannabis means breaking...

Cannabis

Minnesota Marijuana Oil Sent to New York Stirs Anger

Minnesota lawmakers want to crack down on one of the state's medical marijuana companies whose former...

Legal

NY Hospitals to Allow MMJ Patients to Medicate On-Site

Medical marijuana is rapidly growing in popularity and gradually gaining acceptance among medical professionals, but many...

Cannabis

New York To Expand Medical Cannabis Access

Bending to complaints that the state's two-year-old medical marijuana program is too restrictive, officials in New...

Medical

NY: Proposed Medical Marijuana Upgrades Are Nothing Without Chronic Pain

As it stands, there are only 2,675 patients in the entire state that have been approved...

Legal

Proposal Would Legalize 2 Ounces of Personal Cannabis in Buffalo, NY

Sadly, upstate New York is plagued with disproportionate arrest rates for cannabis possession and the people...

Politics

NY Sponsors Big Pharma CBD Trials, But Will Not Expand MMJ

New York is apparently more interested in stroking the interests of Big Pharma than it is...

Medical

NY Opens Its MMJ Dispensaries, Patient Base Grows

New York’s dispensaries have been open for 10 days, since Jan. 7, and already the state’s...

Medical

NY Patients Can Now Register for Medical Marijuana Program, But Good Luck Finding A Recommendation

Perhaps one of the biggest concerns surrounding medical marijuana in New York is that there will...

Medical

NY Gov. Signs Emergency MMJ Bill

Patients who are considered critically ill might not have to wait for New York to launch...

Medical

Taking One for the Kids: Activist Arrests Continue

Bobby Moulton devotes his life to helping pediatric cancer patients with cannabis oil. Unfortunately, one kid...

Economics

Tech Enters the Game at Cannabis Investors Summit

It was just a matter of time before the high-tech community merged its way into the...

Economics

New York Banks Say “No” to Cannabis

New York’s medical cannabis industry is scheduled to launch at the beginning of 2016, but the...

Politics

NY Announces Winners of MMJ Licenses

After more than a year since New York Governor Andrew Cuomo put his apprehensive seal of...

Medical

New York Hospitals Could Distribute Medical Marijuana

Although the New York State Health Department hasn’t revealed the names of the applicants vying to...

Politics

Congress Passes Amendments to End War on Cannabis

Congress signaled its support for nationwide reform by voting in favor of several amendments that would...