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Sales of medical marijuana in Illinois are seeing an uptick as more dispensaries open around the state. State officials report patients purchased more than $1 million in medical marijuana last month. There are about 3,000 patients using cannabis with more 4,000 approved to purchase it...

In 2014, Nebraska joined the growing list of states legalizing hemp for commercial and industrial purposes. Because of a decades-long ban on the production of hemp due to it coming from the same plant as marijuana, United States manufacturers had to import hemp for use in products, such as...

After decades of importing hemp from other countries, in recent years several states have begun legalizing hemp farming for industrial purposes. New York is one of many states to take this action, with recent legislation making it the 11th in the nation to legalize hemp. As with other...

Montana became one of the first states to legalize hemp for industrial purposes, changing the law even before the federal government eased restrictions on its ban with the 2014 Farm Bill. Like the many states that followed, Montana saw the economic value of legalizing hemp farming. With the...

A new report catalogs the highs (and lows) of America's medical cannabis process Medicinal marijuana, man. Eighty five percent of the U.S. population, in 23 different states, should technically have the option to access the healing herb safely and legally. But since it's a relatively new...

Cornell University and SUNY Morrisville both plan to pursue state licenses for experimental crops of industrial hemp now that state regulations for the crop have been established. The state Department of Agriculture and Markets published final regulations governing experimental industrial...

On January 6, two days before Mexican authorities recaptured Joaquín Guzmán Loera, a.k.a. El Chapo, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt pointed to another drug lord, this one hiding in plain sight: John Hickenlooper, a.k.a. the governor of Colorado. "The State of Colorado authorizes...

New York's medical marijuana program has signed up 71 patients so far. The state's Department of Health provided the number on Friday. The program began Thursday. To receive marijuana, patients with certain qualifying conditions must get a certification from a physician registered with...

European Union countries are unlikely to legalize marijuana any time soon as some parts of the United States have done recently, EU drug monitoring agency chief Wolfgang Gotz said on Thursday. He did not spell out why he expected no corresponding EU moves. But in a statement, his agency said...

State government debt is expected to reach $1.17 trillion in fiscal year 2016, but elected officials have no interest in raising tax rates or taking austerity measures. Why commit political suicide when there are creative ways to boost tax revenue without angering voting taxpayers? Instead...

As we enter what could arguably be described as marijuana's most critical year, the vast majority of momentum behind this at the moment illicit drug remains good. More than a two-decade span, practically two dozen states have legalized the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes, giving a new...

A source close to one of the two companies picked to dispense medical marijuana in the Buffalo area says the much-anticipated launch of the state's program is "imminent." Advocates concerned that the program will miss Tuesday's state-imposed deadline say patients have waited long enough...

Marijuana prohibition is entering its 78th year. Colorado's marijuana law went into effect at the beginning of last year in the wake of changing attitudes. Compared to 1969, when only 12% supported legalizing pot, today a majority of Americans support legalizing recreational use of the drug...

Illegal in the United States for nearly 80 years, marijuana accounted for 8.2 million arrests nationwide between 2001 and 2010. Despite the decades old federal ban, the country's attitude toward marijuana has been changing. While only 12% of Americans supported legalizing pot in 1969, 58% of...

Washington State Patrol Sgt. Mark Crandall half-jokingly says he can tell a driver is under the influence of marijuana during a traffic stop when the motorist becomes overly familiar and is calling him "dude." The truth in the joke, Crandall says, is that attitude and speech patterns can be...

Republicans go ballistic and make up all manner of bovine excrement reasons to create unconstitutional laws that they claim supersede the federal authority. In fact, Republicans and conservatives are notorious for claiming they will never tolerate anyone, much less the federal government telling...

It's been two years since the great social experiment called recreational marijuana became legal in Colorado. Oregon and Washington then jumped onboard, and now Alaska has too. Ten other states also want a piece of the pot pie. They are considering ending the prohibition on pot in 2016...

2015 was a pretty amazing year for the progress in the legalization of marijuana. Four states and the District of Columbia legalized recreational marijuana, many states decriminalized it and several more states approved of medical marijuana. But for all the advances made in 2015, the year was...

The federal ban on medical marijuana is finally a thing of the past. Slipped inside a major budgetary spending bill that was purported to prevent the government from shutting down, is an interesting earmarked section that finally lifts the federal ban on medical marijuana. The relevant excerpt...

The federal ban on medical marijuana is finally a thing of the past. Slipped inside a major budgetary spending bill that was purported to prevent the government from shutting down, is an interesting earmarked section that finally lifts the federal ban on medical marijuana. The relevant excerpt...