Newswise — CHICAGO, July 20, 2015 -- New research reported in The Journal of Pain, published by the American Pain Society (www.americanpainsociety.org, shows that inhaled cannabis reduces diabetic neuropathy and the analgesic effect is dose-dependent.

MORRIS – An attempt to re-vote on the medical marijuana dispensary coming to Morris failed at Monday’s Morris City Council meeting, .

Third Ward Alderman Don Matteson requested the council reconsider the July 6 vote regarding a conditional use permit granted to Greenhouse Group LLC to operate a medical marijuana dispensary at 2400 W. Route 6. Second Ward Alderman Doug Hayse tried to second the motion.

SAN JOSE, Calif., Jul 21, 2015 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- As Green Technology Solutions, Inc.GTSO, -6.74% prepares to deliver cutting-edge products and services to capitalize on the nationwide boom in the cannabis industry, an important new market opened up last week. Horticulture is now underway at Illinois’ first state-sanctioned medical cannabis cultivation center.

TAMPA, Fla. - The U.S. market for legal cannabis goods and services expanded further last week with the announcement that Illinois’ first state-authorized medical cannabis cultivation center has begun growing crops. That’s more good news for Neutra Corp. (NTRR) as the company continues to add new cannabis cultivation clients to its rapidly growing roster.

People who lost their homes when a tornado roared through their central Illinois town last week received help from a new neighbor: the top executive of a medical marijuana-growing company.

Delavan Mayor Liz Skinner said Sunday that Revolution Enterprises CEO Tim McGraw is paying for hotel rooms for residents displaced by Thursday night's tornado.

More than 50 homes were damaged as the tornado, which reached wind speeds of 120 mph, tore a 1-mile path through the community of 1,700 residents. "Nine homes were declared uninhabitable," Skinner said.

Now that a few medical marijuana cultivation facilities have been authorized to grow cannabis, dispensaries are getting ready to disperse the medicine to the public.

Although dispensaries in Illinois aren’t expecting product until this fall, facility owners are getting ready to open their buildings to educate the public about the process.

Cameron Lehman, co-founder and CEO of Terra Herbal Health, LLC, said the building at 8195 Express Drive, in Marion, is still under construction, but he plans to have it complete by mid-August.

The dispensary is renovating an 8,000-square-foot building across the street from the airport in Marion.

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Joe Pepitone is in an upbeat mood today. "Everything's good, and that's honest," he confides over the phone to Rolling Stone. "Next time you talk to me, and I'm screaming and yelling at you and don't want to talk to you, you'll know everything's horseshit."

Some Illinois medical marijuana cultivators received the green light to begin growing medicine this past week from the state.

Officials at Ataraxia, the marijuana cultivator in Illinois State Police District 19 in Albion, announced Monday it received state authorization to begin growing medical cannabis.

The announcement for one of the first cultivators to begin growing product comes nearly two years after former Gov. Pat Quinn signed a law making medical marijuana legal in Illinois.

Gov. Bruce Rauner granted the cultivation and dispensary licenses in February.

People sit at a seminar for medical marijuana in a hotel in Quincy. QUINCY, Ill. (WGEM) -

A workshop for people looking to work in the medical marijuana business was held Saturday at the Town N Country Inn and Suites in Quincy.

Herbal Remedies Dispensary Manager Andy Schnack says Saturday was meant to educate people on what it means to work in a dispensary and what information potential employees would need to know when it comes to recommending products to patients. 

Schnack says there was a small exam at the end of workshop and those who passed received a certificate of completion. 

Elgin will take a serious look at decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana after city council members said Saturday they were amenable to the idea.

Councilwoman Tish Powell is proposing handling such cases under the city's administrative adjudication process, which means people would not get arrested but instead get a ticket and have to pay a fine.

The current punishment for misdemeanor marijuana possession is too harsh, Councilwoman Carol Rauschenberger said during a special committee of the whole meeting Saturday. "We're just being proactive with what's changing in America, and what's changing in our community."