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A northern Wisconsin tribe has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for the right to cultivate industrial hemp. The Menominee Nation argued in the case it "should have the right under the Farm Bill to cultivate industrial hemp in the same manner as Kentucky, Colorado and other...

The Menominee Nation filed a lawsuit Wednesday asking a federal judge to clarify that the tribe has a right to grow industrial hemp – a crop related to marijuana – on its Wisconsin reservation. The lawsuit comes after federal and state agents seized 30,000 hemp plants the tribe was growing on...

Tribes across the U.S. are finding marijuana is risky business nearly a year after a Justice Department policy indicated they could grow and sell pot under the same guidelines as states. Federal raids on tribal cannabis operations in California followed by a South Dakota tribe's move this month...