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Seeds are in the ground at the site of an industrial hemp research plot in Perry County. On Tuesday afternoon, farmer Jeremiah Elsesser worked the tractor pulling the seed drill filled with the first hemp seeds to be legally planted in the local area for decades. "Our hopes are that it...

"Get with the times!" -- that was the message from activists to state lawmakers at the seventh annual Milwaukee Marijuana March Saturday, May 6th. The group wants pot legalized. It was actually an entirely different drug that became the focus of Saturday's event. Supporters of legalizing...

Is marijuana a gateway drug? Carrie Roberts sure hopes so. Roberts, a consultant with Colorado-based Medicine Man Technologies, doesn't believe that marijuana use leads to abuse of harder drugs, though. Instead, she thinks it might present a gateway out of risky drug use for people struggling...

Is marijuana a gateway drug? Carrie Roberts sure hopes so. Roberts, a consultant with Colorado-based Medicine Man Technologies, doesn't believe that marijuana use leads to abuse of harder drugs, though. Instead, she thinks it might present a gateway out of risky drug use for people struggling...

Laurie Roberts believes that arresting 12,000 marijuana users in Arizona every year somehow stops kids from getting it. Ms. Roberts may be commended for never being a kid who wanted pot, but her belief that prohibition stops those who do is pure fantasy. It is easier for kids to get pot than...