Archive of Month: January 2016

As a medical professional for more than 20 years, 52-year-old Emily Taylor of Rego Park was very much against drug use and never tried marijuana in her life. Than she began suffering from multiple neuropathies with chronic stabbing pains all over her body beginning six years ago. “I had to try and control the pain with huge doses of opiates and other narcotics that left me useless,” said Taylor, which is not her real name because she asked that her...

It was a quiet opening Friday for Vireo Health. There were few patients at the medical marijuana dispensary, but the executives did not act worried. “Our experience working in other...

Queens residents hoping to find relief from chronic illness pain will now be able to purchase medical-grade marijuana in the borough’s first dispensary. Vireo Health of New York, one of...

ELMHURST — The borough’s first medical marijuana facility opened Friday inside a bright and airy former clothing shop on Queens Boulevard — but don’t expect to find any pot cookies,...

The borough’s first medical marijuana dispensary opened its doors Friday near the Queens Center Mall in Elmhurst. The Queens Patient Center at 89-55 Queens Blvd. began to provide clients with...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (NEWS10) – The first medical cannabis patient in New York State said her cancer and the treatments for it turned her life upside down. Constant pain and...

Now that New York has become the 23rd state to legalize medical marijuana, reporters Tuesday met the woman believed to be the first patient in the state. Brittany Barger suffers...

When Brittany Barger was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, the then 26-year-old New Yorker mourned the death of a life she had mapped out. Then she regrouped and focused on the life ahead...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — One of the first patients to receive medical marijuana in New York is telling her story. Brittany Barger, 27, was diagnosed with Stage IV ovarian cancer more than a year...

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WHITE PLAINS – A medical marijuana dispensary is poised to open in downtown White Plains on Thursday, but company officials concerned about negative perceptions used another name to describe the business:...

Medical marijuana dispensaries open their doors in New York Thursday — but don’t expect buds and brownies on the menu. At Vireo New York’s White Plains facility, a trio of...