Illinois Governor OKs Allowing Medical Cannabis At Schools
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has signed a law requiring public schools to allow parents to administer medical marijuana at school to eligible children.
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Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has signed a law requiring public schools to allow parents to administer medical marijuana at school to eligible children.
A cooking class in the northern suburbs is teaching patients how to cook with cannabis.
"Amazing," "a magic bullet," "life-changing." Those are just some of the ways people describe cannabidiol, or CBD, a product they use to treat everything from pain to mental health conditions; but is it snake oil or the real deal?
Michigan has added several medical conditions to the state's list of ailments which qualify for a medical marijuana prescription.
An Illinois Senate bill that would expand the use of medical marijuana in order to combat the state's opioid crisis has been referred to the Illinois House Rules Committee.
The Illinois House approved to adopt a plan that permits infused medical marijuana to be administered to students by parents in elementary and secondary schools.
The legal battle over whether to allow an 11-year-old Hanover Park girl to receive medical marijuana at school returns Monday to federal court.
Maureen Surin's daughter, Ashley, suffers from seizures that are the complications of her leukemia treatment.
The parents of an 11-year-old student being treated for leukemia have filed the suit, which challenges Illinois law.
Illinois allows some patients to consume physician-prescribed marijuana, but the feds don't recognize it as a legal drug. CBS 2's Dorothy Tucker reports.
4-20 is Patient Appreciation Day at a Mundelein marijuana dispensary where the mood was festive, and the waiting room was full.
Illinois law lists dozens of diseases, including cancer, multiple sclerosis and AIDS, that can qualify a patient for cannabis use.
No one's trying to get your dog high. Non-addictive cannabinoids are successfully treating some symptoms in pets, one Chicago veterinarian tells CBS 2's Roseanne Tellez.
Do Illinois patients have too many hoops to jump through? CBS 2's Pam Zekman reports.
Medical marijuana sales reached more than $3.8 million last month at licensed dispensaries throughout Illinois.
Experts say it all starts with a conversation with your doctor to find out if you're eligible for treatment.
An agreement adds post-traumatic stress syndrome and terminal illnesses to the list of qualifying conditions.
Republican Bruce Rauner has previously rejected attempts at expansion.
The Rauner administration recently declined to widen the list of ailments that makes patients eligible for medical marijuana. CBS 2's Roseanne Tellez reports.
Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner signaled his distaste for broadening the state's new medical marijuana program, declining to add chronic pain and seven other health conditions to the list of diseases that can be treated with the drug.
Program director Joseph Wright on Monday announced sales figures since Nov. 9, when Illinois launched regulated sales with the opening of the state's first licensed cannabis dispensaries.
Illinois has collected roughly $107,000 in taxes in the pilot program.
Originally, Ald. Michelle Harris had expressed support for the planned medical marijuana dispensary at 1111 East 87th Street.
Chicago's first medical marijuana dispensary, Dispensary 33, officially opened its doors today at the corner of Clark and Argyle in what was once a pizza place.
With many states now pushing for the legalization of marijuana, its potential as an addictive substance is hotly debated. Advocates claim that the drug is not addictive, while opponents commonly label it as a gateway drug.
