Patients with intractable migraines and two other afflictions have been recommended for inclusion in the state’s five-year-old medical marijuana program.

There are more questions than answers as the Government of the Northwest Territories readies itself to introduce new cannabis legislation within the year, in light of federal marijuana legalization.

But one thing is certain for Danny McNeely, MLA for the Sahtu.

"They're not ready," McNeely said. "There has never been any community consultation other than social media articles that have been exposed via the paper, or other means, [like] on Facebook."

What about prohibition?

Some small communities in the N.W.T. have strict alcohol prohibitions or restrictions in place.

Six months into the Trump administration and a lot of remaining Obama appointees have been replaced. Some fairly routine, like ambassadors, the surgeon general, some US district Attorney’s US Attorneys. Some more inflammatory like an FBI Director. And many posts either remain vacant or occupied by Obama-era appointees.

It was welcome news to Scott Treatman when the New York State Department of Health announced in December that it was expanding access to medical marijuana for those with chronic pain. Treatman’s practice in the village of Cazenovia, southeast of Syracuse, already treated a bevy of patients with conditions that ranged from lymphoma to multiple sclerosis. Most of them were referrals from other doctors who couldn’t (or often wouldn’t) prescribe the Schedule 1 drug. There were many more people, though, who weren’t covered.

The 2017 legislative session, also called by many the "marijuana session," just ended, and lawmakers introduced over a dozen marijuana-related bills.  Roughly a third of them are likely to become law.

Last November, voters approved recreational pot last, so during this legislative session, lawmakers scrambled to regulate the budding industry.

Regulate Rhode Island and their legislative allies proposed “incremental legalization” as a compromise for marijuana legalization. But, within minutes Speaker of the House Nick Mattiello's office said legalization legislation is dead for the session and that Mattiello was supporting the study commission bill.

The landscape has changed since Gov. John Kasich signed Ohio's medical marijuana law one year ago today.

Details of the new, tightly-controlled program began rolling out in November. The state began accepting applications for 24 grow licenses on Monday, and other businesses are preparing to apply for dispensary and processor licenses in a few months.  

Investigators said three U.S. postal employees in Akron targeted packages being shipped by drug traffickers, stole the packages and then sold the marijuana to a drug dealer, splitting the profits.

Rabih Kairouz, 29, of Akron, Anton D. Easter, Jr., 26, of Akron, Scott Gay, Jr., 33, of Canton, and Corey Turnbull, 26, of Ravenna were named in the three-count indictment filed Tuesday.

Kairouz, Gay and Turnbull worked as supervisors for the U.S. Postal Service in Akron.

The trio allegedly set aside parcels that they believed to contain drugs, later opened the packages and sold close to 100 pounds of marijuana to Easter, sharing the profits.

A federal appellate panel on Wednesday blocked the states of Nebraska and Oklahoma from challenging Colorado’s marijuana legalization law, saying their claims should be directed to the U.S. Supreme Court—a venue that has already refused to hear their fight.

Marijuana reform advocates say there was unprecedented support for their efforts in this year’s legislative session, but the majority of Texas lawmakers still weren’t ready to change state law.

This legislative session, bills addressing medical cannabis and decriminalization once again died at the state Capitol despite having bipartisan support.