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  Illinois Legalizes Medical Marijuana For Children With Seizures

  July 20, 2014 at 8:23 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  Illinois children and adults with epilepsy will soon be allowed to use marijuana to ease their symptoms under a law signed on Sunday by Democratic Governor Pat Quinn, the latest in a series of measures loosening restrictions on cannabis by U.S. states. The move to add epilepsy and other seizure disorders to the list of conditions legal to treat with marijuana or its extracts comes as numerous states have made medical use of the drug legal. Two states, Colorado and [...]

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• 6 Things You Need To Know About The Nation’s Strictest Medical Weed Law

  July 15, 2014 at 6:11 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  Patients awaiting access to medical marijuana in Illinois may have it by early 2015 after rules for the state’s restrictive pilot program were approved by the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules Tuesday. More than seven months after Illinois’ medical marijuana law went into effect, Tuesday’s approval outlines the steps and approximate timeframes qualifying patients and prospective entrepreneurs can expect before they get the green light to use, cultivate or dispense the drug. The law that created Illinois’ pilot program — already more [...]

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  Illinois House Approves Medical Cannabis for Epileptic Kids

  May 24, 2014 at 1:45 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Cannabis Reviews, Hemp, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  Kids under 18 could be allowed to use medical marijuana after the house in Illinois expanded the state’s medical-pot law to include epileptic children. The plan to let minors use medical marijuana passed 98-18 in the house on Wednesday and will now go back to the state’s senate. It was passed there in April but will now be reviewed as the house made an amendment stipulating that the marijuana must not be smoked. “These people are not interested in getting high,” Democratic state representative [...]

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