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So happy to be back with you all again. Last year was my first grow and it went extremely well, in large part to help of this community. I'm so excited to enter this current season as I only grow outside once a year. Last year I grew Laughing Buddha, Vanilla Kush and Acapulco Gold. This...

Everyone wants to know which domino will be the next to fall. Which state will be next to legalize recreational marijuana? Well, up until this point, the most likely candidates were Vermont, Rhode Island, and Delaware. But now we have two more contenders: Illinois and New Jersey. Illinois...

If your mom is a “cool” mom, cannabis companies want you to think outside the box for this year's present. Several cannabis companies aren't shying away from Mother's Day like last year, just the opposite they are embracing it. “2017 is a different story. We are expecting most clients to offer...

Bern - Entrepreneurs have high hopes for cannabis in Switzerland, where business has suddenly taken off in recent months, six years after the country legalised low-potency "marijuana light". Switzerland changed its laws in 2011 to allow adults to buy and use cannabis with up to 1percent THC...

My brother goes through at least 2 or 3 a year, sometimes more. I can't figure out how that's possible since I've had the same grinder for 3 years

Marijuana prohibition is over in California, so we can all breathe easy, right? Don't tell that to Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman. The law still prohibits various activities often associated with cannabis cultivation, not to mention the violent crimes the black-market industry sometimes...

The snow is melting, the sun is trying and we are back online! This is a full offgrid grow. Water and power both, somewhere montana. Last year we used a 730nm Flower initiator and we were pleased. Yet with the worst growing season in our lifetime we have decided this year to go with an automatic...

Hi :) This is my first post. I have been reading so much the past 3 weeks, I think my head is going to explode. I grew 2 plants last year, outside. I did almost everything wrong (from what I've been reading) but I got some beautiful plants. I am so excited to try again, this year...

Denver ― Budding scholars, rejoice. Commissioners in Pueblo County, Colorado, on Monday signed off on what they're calling the "world's first cannabis-funded scholarship." The fund of approximately $475,000 will be available for high school students in Pueblo County who wish to attend...

This summer I'd like to try my hand at an outside scrog and would like to know if I'd run into problems by mixing 3-4 different strains together. Last year I made a 4' X 8' covered wagon and I'm considering putting a screen on it this year with 6 to 8 five gallon Smart Pots. If I arranged the...

Colorado's legal marijuana dispensaries sold $1.3 billion worth of pot during 2016, according to tax data released Thursday, signaling the state's best year since legalizing recreational weed in 2013. Statistics released by the Colorado Department of Revenue this week indicate the state's...

The state legislature's Office of Fiscal Analysis believes that Connecticut could bring in up to $104.6 million a year in revenue if marijuana is legalized in the state, based upon estimates of the legalized marijuana business in Colorado and Massachusetts. According to the OFA report, during...

Concord, N.H. - One New Hampshire representative hopes this is the year the state finally decriminalizes marijuana – roughly 40 years after he first sponsored a bill to do so. Democratic Rep. Chuck Grassie of Rochester is a sponsor of a bill that would remove criminal penalties for...

After a year of reduced production, hempseed acres are poised to jump substantially this spring. Companies that contract hemp production and industry reps expect seeded acres to top 150,000, which could set a new record. Buyers and processors are contracting more production because demand...

CNS Canada – Aggressive contracting in the hemp sector is expected to bump up Canadian acres – another benefit for growers who will experience less red tape this year. "We've seen a lot of activity on the contracting side for growers," said Kim Shukla, executive director of the Canadian Hemp...

Kevin Krueger has been growing hemp for three years on his farm, six-and-a-half miles south of Thornhill in south-central Manitoba. The first year he grew 70 acres, the second 25 acres and 30 acres this year. "I've called it an experiment every year," says Krueger. "The experiments are starting...

Bend, Ore. - The city of Bend expects to receive $500,000 a year in revenue from the 3 percent marijuana sales tax voters passed in November. That's higher than the $345,000 the city estimated last year. This good news is coming at a time when overall city revenue was not as high this year as...

The buzz around the cannabis business in 2016 reached an inflection point with medical marijuana companies raising more than $466 million on Canadian capital markets last year. Two years into Canada's commercial medical marijuana market, companies have investor attention. Several players...

Our annual contests are underway, for Plant of the Year - 2016, Nug of the Year - 2016 & Member of the Year - 2016. You'll always find wonderful photographs in these first two contests, every month. However the annual contests, consolidating every month's winner, really show the very best that...

With the number of acres allotted to grow industrial hemp nearly tripling in 2017, this could be the year the crop challenges Kentucky's reputation as the Bluegrass State. The Kentucky Department of Agriculture has approved 209 applications from growers who have been approved to cultivate up...