CLEVELAND -- Today two Ohio State Senators traveled from Columbus to Cleveland for the main purpose to see what Clevelanders thought on medical marijuana. 

Back in November, Issue 3 failed 64% to 36%.  Many feel it was because it was dealing with both recreational and medical marijuana.  Even though Ohioans said no to both then, there are still several groups and politicians who want to see medical marijuana legal in Ohio.

Dozens of people came out to a meeting on the Cleveland State University campus and shared in a discussion that lasted a couple hours.  They expressed their opinion for and against medical marijuana. 

This was the start of a statewide tour for State senators Kenny Yuko (D-Richmond Heights) and Dave Burke (R-Marysville).

For years, these nuns have been attempting to make the cannabis market ‘a healing industry instead of a stoner industry’, and who can blame them?

The Sisters of the Valley have been fighting back against the Merced city bosses in California, to continue running their modest garage weed farm and make marijuana products to sell on their Etsy store.

Officials recently decided to ban medicinal weed and it’s not gone down well with these Sisters. Since the ruling last week, they’ve started a petition to protect weed rights in California’s central valley, and their thriving business of course.

The administration of cannabis oil extracts high in cannabidiol reduces seizure frequency in children with intractable epilepsy, according to clinical data published online ahead of print in the journal Seizure.

Israeli researchers retrospectively evaluated the effects of CBD oil in a multicenter cohort of 74 patients with intractable epilepsy. Participants in the trial were resistant to conventional epilepsy treatment and were treated with CBD extracts for a period of at least three months. Extracts in the study were provided by a pair of Israeli-licensed growers and were standardized to possess a CBD to THC ratio of 20 to 1.

Hemp, Inc. (OTC PINK: HEMP) continues to update its shareholders on the rapid spread of hemp legalization in Vermont, Kansas, Maine, Kentucky, Montana, Missouri, and Hawaii. More and more states are realizing the economical advantages of the hemp plant. Hemp can be used in the manufacturing of thousands of products, thus legalizing hemp farming can increase jobs and provide additional revenue for farmers and the state.

Legal marijuana is the fastest-growing industry in the United States and if the trend toward legalization spreads to all 50 states, marijuana could become larger than the organic food industry, according to a new report obtained by The Huffington Post.

Researchers from The ArcView Group, a cannabis industry investment and research firm based in Oakland, California, found that the U.S. market for legal cannabis grew 74 percent in 2014 to $2.7 billion, up from $1.5 billion in 2013.

Abby Epstein and Ricki Lake, the documentarians behind The Business of Being Born, will likely debut their new film Weed the People in late 2016. Described as an “unflinching look at the underground world of herbal medicine,” the movie follows families who turned to cannabis when traditional medicine offered little hope. One of the film’s principles is Sophie Ryan, diagnosed with a brain tumor while only months old, leaving her parents scrambling for any answers they might find. Desperate, the Ryan family said yes when the filmmakers wanted to give Sophie cannabis-based treatments and document the results.

The California legislature scrambled this week to correct a serious error that had been written into the state’s new medical marijuana regulations.

The State Assembly passed AB 21, a bill that fixes what may have been a fatal problem with the language of last year’s Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act, by a unanimous vote of 65-0 on Thursday, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. The bill had cleared the state Senate on Monday, and now awaits Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature.

The director of the Virginia chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws said she is remaining optimistic in spite of scant political will in the statehouse for the cause.

The Republican-led House Courts of Justice this week tabled various marijuana-related proposals, including one to decriminalize it. But Virginia NORML Director Pam Novy, of Culpeper, said that would not set back the state’s marijuana reform movement.

Bill would create a list of acceptable products for growers to use