medical marijuana

New York State Cannabis Connect, in partnership with the City of Binghamton, is hosting “Catch a Cont@ct Career Summit”.

The Southern Tier's only medical marijuana dispensary continues to be open a few hours a week and is serving a small number of patients.

Southern Tier residents now may legally obtain cannabis-based medications at a facility in Broome County. Vireo Health of New York opened its Johnson City dispensary Thursday morning. The office shares a building with a travel agency and a pizza restaurant at the intersection of Harry L Drive and Reynolds Road...

Vireo Health of New York is continuing work on its planned Southern Tier site where it will fill prescriptions for medical marijuana. Speaking on WNBF Radio's Binghamton Now program Thursday, company CEO Ari Hoffnung said he expects Vireo's Broome County location will be able to open by the end of this month...

New York state's medical marijuana program is being launched this week. But a dispensary planned for Johnson City won't be opening as soon as its operators had hoped. Vireo Health of New York officials had indicated they were aiming to start operations at the site at 589 Harry L...

New York State Senator Thomas Libous won't rule out using marijuana to deal with the nausea brought on by his cancer treatments. But he says he would only consider doing so if such use is legalized. Speaking from his Albany office on WNBF Radio's Binghamton Now program this morning, Libous said he had not decided whether he would support medicinal marijuana legislation this year...

State Senator Diane Savino says a measure to allow New Yorkers to use marijuana for medicinal purposes may be passed by the Senate this year. Savino, a Staten Island Democrat, says "we are certainly a lot closer now than ever" to approval of a medical marijuana bill by both houses of the legislature...