The American Medical Association’s latest attempt to shore up their medical monopoly could have stiff consequences for practitioners who don’t toe the line. Action Alert!

Angered by what they call “quack MDs,” the AMA recently decided to “actively defend the profession.” In particular, it plans to

Voters appear ready to end marijuana prohibition but politicians are slow to act.

Two polls released today show a significant upward trend favoring marijuana legalization among Pennsylvania and New Jersey residents.

A Franklin & Marshall poll showed that a staggering 87 percent of Pa residents approve of medical marijuana. Although support has been above 80 percent in several polls since 2009, this is the highest number to date.

Few issues have ever seen this massive level of public backing.

A Camden County father will be honored by freeholders Thursday for advocating on his daughter’s behalf.

Ricardo Rivera has been a vocal supporter of medical marijuana and has called on political leaders to make it easier for patients to obtain legal cannabis.

His 8-year-old daughter, Tatyana “Tuffy” Rivera, was diagnosed at 10 months of age with a severe form of epilepsy called Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. Until she started taking a regimen of cannabis-infused coconut oil more than a year ago, she suffered up to 300 seizures a day and was unable to speak or feed herself.

Freeholder Carmen Rodriguez said she wrote the official proclamation about Rivera in time for Father’s Day. In it, the document states Rivera “helps his daughter daily by being her voice.”

Atopic diseases, or those that cause an individual to experience immediate allergic reactions (asthma being one of the more common), affect about 20 percent of the population in developed countries.

It’s time to ditch that “Gateway to the Rockies” label. Denver is a bona fide destination, besting Colorado’s ski resorts as a top draw for vacationers.

A record 15.4 million overnight vacationers and business travelers visited Denver in 2014, spending a record $4.6 billion — two benchmarks among several in which the city logged gains at double or triple the national average.

Since Denver voters in 2005 approved an increase in the city’s lodging tax to bolster tourism promotion, the number of leisure travelers lured to Denver through marketing has grown 65 percent.

Of the many active ingredients in cannabis, cannabinoids — the miracle molecules that deliver most of the medical efficacy of marijuana — aren’t the whole picture. Some cannabis consumers may be aware of terpenes, the cannabinoid-like chemicals that give herb such a pungent smell. What most don’t know is that terpenes also deliver therapeutic relief, just like their cousins the cannabinoids.

You can bring marijuana into this year's U.S. Open

As of last Friday, 14 patients have enrolled in Minnesota’s medical cannabis program.

Two weeks before the launch of Minnesota’s medical marijuana program, there are more doctors signed up for the program than patients.

As of Friday, the state had enrolled 14 patients in the program, out of the 65 so far who have been certified by their doctors to participate. That’s nearly double the eight patients who managed to get signed up in the first week of enrollment, but far short of the 5,000 patients the state had estimated might try the treatment in the program’s first years.

Imagine waiting more than nine years to hear the sound of your child’s voice. That is a narrative all too familiar to Abiel and Gladys Santiago, parents of 9-year-old Kalel.

Kalel was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer as a baby and then severe, nonverbal autism just three years later.

Abiel, Kalel, and Gladys Santiago

“While he was in the hospital, we noticed he didn’t speak at all and had some behavior that wasn’t right, like hand flapping, and walking on his toes.”

Explained Abiel Santiago.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Thousands of hastily scribbled signatures fill boxes in the basement of Ian James’ 7,800-square-foot restored Victorian home in the historic Franklin Park neighborhood. James needs these names to win a place on Ohio’s November ballot for a measure to legalize medical and recreational marijuana.

But the political consultant isn’t just gathering the signatures. He came up with the idea for the measure. And he recruited a lawyer to draft a constitutional amendment that would put Ohio’s future marijuana market in the hands of only 10 growers — an arrangement that critics are calling a monopoly.

Meanwhile, he plans to pay his own firm nearly $6 million to run the campaign.