A group of local non-profit organizations is suing the governor and the New Mexico Department of Health, claiming the state is road-blocking their attempts to receive a medical marijuana production license.

The lawsuit alleges that more than 100 applicants have filed for a license with the Medical Cannabis Program, but the state has rejected almost all of them.

Painful muscle stiffness, which affects the vast majority of people with multiple sclerosis, is eased with progressively stronger doses of cannabis extract (tetrahydrocannabinol), according to Phase III trial results published in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry.

A US appeals court will hear evidence that the drug has medical benefits – a claim with which the federal government disagrees

Michael Krawitz, from Elliston, Virginia, suffered a car accident while serving in the US air force which left him permanently disabled and in chronic pain.

CHEMICALS similar to those found in cannabis form the basis of a new drug that is being trialled in UK cancer patients for the first time by researchers at the Cancer Research UK and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Experimental Cancer Medicine Centre in Newcastle.

A cannabis user from Earley who claims the drug has changed his life is calling for it to be made legal.

Clark French, 26, of Sutcliffe Avenue, was diagnosed Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in August 2010.