Alaska

Qualifying conditions to become a medical marijuana patient in Alaska include:

• Cancer
• Glaucoma
• HIV/AIDS
• Cachexia (wasting syndrome)
• Nausea
• Muscle spasms
• Multiple sclerosis
• Pain
• Seizures

For a complete list of qualifying conditions and guidelines, please refer to Alaska’s application for medical marijuana registry

Arizona

Qualifying conditions to become a medical marijuana patient in Arizona include:

Medical marijuana dispensaries remained busy throughout the weekend after opening their doors for recreational sales Thursday. 

Many of the dispensaries opened at the stroke of midnight Thursday and were greeted with long lines. Those lines continued the following three days, and thousands of customers found their way to a dispensary. Bend has the most dispensaries in Central Oregon, with 16 locations. 

“It was amazing,” Ben Hebert, owner of Dr. Jolly’s on SE Third Street, said Sunday. “We were totally busy all the time. I think we had a lot of happy people coming out of here.” 

Aviv Hadar, co-founder of Oregrown Industries, which has a dispensary on NW Wall Street, said sales reached $55,000 on the first day alone. 

Oregonians who possess medical marijuana cards have finally been told to take a number.

The aftermath of recreational marijuana becoming a reality: some Portland medical marijuana dispensaries have seen sales overwhelmingly increase overnight. And yes, there are lines. 

GoLocalPDX spoke with Christina Zusman, an owner of Canna Daddy’s dispensary on SE Division, which just started selling recreational marijuana. “Our average now is between 700 and 1000 customers a day when we used to see a couple hundred each day. Sales are good.”  

HEALTHY DEBATE: Some doctors, such as Dr. Uma Dhanabalan of Uplifting Health and Wellness in Natick see medical marijuana as a way to help opioid addicts kick their habit. But others, such as Dr. Anil Kumar of Advanced Pain Management Center are wary to downright skeptical of the theory.

Hundreds of opioid addicts are being treated with medical marijuana in Massachusetts, with advocates touting the new therapy as a life-changing alternative to a deadly epidemic — and facing down critics who contend they are peddling junk science.

The battle to legalize marijuana is no longer just a Main Street issue. These influential business leaders have taken the helm to fight for the legalization of marijuana.

Whether you realize it or not, the debate over whether or not to legalize marijuana is no longer just an issue for Main Street to deal with. Wall Street has taken notice of the momentum behind the marijuana movement, and some of the world's most influential business leaders and CEOs have begun issuing their opinions on what should happen with marijuana going forward.

On Friday the three remaining defendants in the Kettle Falls Five marijuana case, which involves Washington residents who grew their own medicine in a state that allowed them to do so, were sentenced to federal prison. Rolland Gregg got 33 months—more than two and a half years—while his mother, Rhonda Firestack-Harvey, and his wife, Michelle Gregg, each received a one-year sentence.

FLANDREAU The Flandreau Santee Sioux tribe announced that it was legalizing marijuana on tribal lands back in June.
Now the tribe is getting ready to make history as it prepares to open a lounge where it will be legal to consume marijuana on the property.

This doesn’t look like much now. There’s debris on the ground and several holes in the walls, but this is all part of the deconstruction process, eventually this building will be the first ever lounge that allows people to legally consume marijuana on the property.

This old bowling alley is in the process of getting a major make over.
Crews broke ground last week, working to turn this into something that will make history.

A lack of guidance from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency frustrated Colorado's efforts to decide how to handle pesticides and pot.

State regulators have known since 2012 that marijuana was grown with potentially dangerous pesticides, but pressure from the industry and lack of guidance from federal authorities delayed their efforts to enact regulations, and they ultimately landed on a less restrictive approach than originally envisioned.

Three years of e-mails and records obtained by The Denver Post and dozens of interviews show state regulators struggled with the issue while the cannabis industry protested that proposed limits on pesticides would leave their valuable crops vulnerable to devastating disease.

EVANSVILLE, IN (WFIE) -

Several organizations held a vigil Saturday to remember people who have died from illnesses, because they weren't able to use marijuana as treatment.

The event, called Light Up the Night and Spark the Truth, was hosted by members of the Southern Indiana and Kentucky Chapters of The International Women's Cannabis Coalition.

The event included a candlelight vigil, speakers, and musicians.

Dana Arvidson says she attended to remember her father-in-law who died from colon cancer. She says she came across a report that says marijuana has been known to prevent and cure colon cancer.

The leader of one of the nation’s largest metropolitan chambers of commerce is urging local businesses to come out against a ballot issue that would legalize both medical and recreational marijuana.

But legal experts and proponents of Issue 3 say employers need not fear if marijuana is legalized in Ohio.

On Nov. 3, Ohio residents will be asked to vote on both Issue 3 and Issue 2, the Ohio Initiated Monopolies Amendment put on by lawmakers in response to ResponsibleOhio’s campaign to legalize marijuana here. Issue 3, or the Marijuana Legalization Initiative, would create 10 facilities with exclusive rights to commercially grow the drug.