In 2012, Washington and Colorado sparked the proverbial flame by passing laws to end marijuana prohibition within their borders. Since then, the flame has passed to 21 other states and the District of Columbia, effectively allowing some form of marijuana use and cultivation in these areas. The...
Republicans who took control of the Legislature are supposed to be pro-business – but they clumsily undercut a brand-new West Virginia industry that might create Mountain State jobs.
The state Agriculture Department issued permits for various landowners to grow industrial hemp, a valuable...
Even before the Federal Farm Bill passed in March 2014, several states were investigating the viability of growing industrial hemp. This was seen as a way to help farmers and the production of textiles and plastics, among other industries.
One early advocate of industrial hemp in Virginia...
Virginia lawmakers are paving the way for the production and distribution of medical marijuana oils.
Senate Bill 701 passed in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly. The bill allows for the eventual production and distribution of cannabis oils, which supporters say can ease conditions...
A cash crop banned in Virginia for decades will soon be legally grown in the commonwealth, thanks to some new legislation.
Governor Terry McAuliffe signed a bill this week that will let people legally manufacture industrial hemp products. That law goes into effect July first this year.
The...
In the General Assembly, the Senate passed a bill that would allow the production of medical marijuana oil in Virginia.
Last year, Governor Terry McAuliffe signed a bill allowing oil from marijuana to be prescribed to patients suffering from epilepsy and other debilitating ailments. However...
While the trend in much of the United States is moving toward decriminalization or legalization of marijuana, Virginia is heading in the opposite direction: With sharply rising arrest totals for the possession of pot and a disproportionate number of black people arrested in the Commonwealth...
I detoxed over a year ago when I was taking prescription opioids and now I still need to relieve my pain and I hate to start taking opioids again. I find that Cannabis helps but I live in Northern Virginia. Does anyone know how I can get cannabis while living here?
We hereby petition the General Assembly and Governor Terry McAuliffe to pass legislation that licenses and regulates the production of Industrial Hemp as an industrial and agricultural commodity. Help us save the world with Hemp.
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Virginia Delegate Joseph Yost introduced House...
hello, i unfortunatly live in a state where medical marijuana is not availible(va). well here goes, i was born with severe club feet in both feet, had 6 different surgeries to somewhat correct it but am still left with 2 fused ankles, when i was 19 i had my first back surgery (2 ruptured discs...