JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri House committee has rejected a bill meant to give terminally ill patients access to medical marijuana. The Columbia Missourian reports that Republican Rep. Jim Neely’s bill failed to make it out of the Legislative Oversight Committee on Wednesday. New Approach Missouri is a group campaigning to legalize medical…
By ANDREW SELSKY, Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — When U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions green-lighted federal prosecutions of marijuana lawbreakers, the vast majority of U.S. states that allow some form of medical marijuana were unexpectedly placed at risk of a crackdown and are warily watching developments. Forty six states — including Sessions’ home state of…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – The Illinois Department of Public Health has rejected intractable pain and autism spectrum disorder as medical conditions that could be treated with medical cannabis. The petition to add intractable pain to the medical marijuana program was submitted in July 2015 to the Medical Cannabis Advisory Board. Department of Public Health Director…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Medical marijuana sales reached more than $4.4 million in November at licensed dispensaries throughout Illinois, marking another month of steady growth for the year-old industry. The state released new sales figures for November along with a new tally for how many patients qualify to buy marijuana legally. The Illinois Department of…
CHICAGO (AP) – Illinois is marking its first year of medical marijuana sales as more states voted on Election Day to allow legal use of the drug. The Chicago Tribune reports that despite anecdotes of medical marijuana’s positive influence on patients, broader data and randomized clinical trials of its use remain very limited. Officials report…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Next week brings the anniversary of legal medical marijuana sales in Illinois and the program is growing steadily. Patients with state approval to buy marijuana now number about 12,000. The state released new monthly figures Wednesday. Retailers sold $4.1 million in marijuana products during October, marking another month of increasing sales.…
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Medical marijuana sales reached more than $3.8 million last month at licensed dispensaries throughout Illinois. The state released new monthly sales figures Wednesday. September’s sales figures bring the total retail sales in Illinois to $23.5 million since purchasing began in November last year, topping the $20 million mark for the first…
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Missouri Secretary of State Jason Kander, who is also the Democratic nominee running for the U.S. Senate, is calling on the Missouri Legislature to pass a law allowing medical marijuana. Kander on Thursday came out in support of medical marijuana legislation in a statement through the secretary of state’s office, not…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A judge says a proposal to allow medical marijuana in Missouri won’t go to voters this year. Cole County Circuit Judge Daniel Green ruled Wednesday that the initiative petitions lacked enough valid signatures to qualify for the Nov. 8 ballot. Secretary of State Jason Kander previously said the measure fell…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Supporters of a proposal to allow medical marijuana in Missouri say thousands of signed petitions to get the measure on the ballot were wrongly tossed out. A lawyer for the group New Approach Missouri told a circuit judge Monday that enough registered voters signed a petition to get the measure…