The first law allowing for the use of medical marijuana in Louisiana passed in 1978, however, only for patients with cancer and glaucoma. Since then, the legal framework for medical marijuana in ...

Earlier research shows marijuana users are nearly 25% more likely to need emergency care and hospitalization than nonusers. “However, this is not a study that anyone should look at and say ...

The unofficial marijuana holiday is less than a week away and in more than half of the U.S., the purchase and consumption of the psychoactive drug is legal. Though more and more states have begun ...

(NEXSTAR) — It’s been nearly two years since the Department of Health and Human Services recommended the Drug Enforcement Administration reschedule marijuana in the U.S. Less than 100 days ...

When Colorado and other states began legalizing marijuana more than a decade ago, they faced a problem: how to guarantee a safe product, with little data about the long-term risks of pesticides ...

Yet research shows that regular users of marijuana are at risk for serious conditions, including strokes, heart attacks, cardiac arrhythmias, heart failure and myocarditis, which is an ...

(AP Photo/Jenny Kane) Gabriel Ramos poses for a photo in front of a large marijuana cigarette and downtown Seattle mural as Sarah Vargas takes a photo at Have a Heart cannabis dispensary Sunday, April ...