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Bismarck, N.D. - North Dakota voters will have the final say on a plan to allow medical marijuana. The Secretary of State has announced a constitutional amendment, the North Dakota Compassionate Care Act, will appear on the ballot November 8. The initiative petition easily met the state's...

Bismarck - After a statewide effort to get their measure on the North Dakota ballot this November, supporters of a medical marijuana initiative will deliver more than 15,000 signatures to the Secretary of State Monday, July 11. Backers of the Compassionate Care Act will head to the Capitol...

Bismarck - After a statewide effort to get their measure on the North Dakota ballot this November, supporters of a medical marijuana initiative will deliver more than 15,000 signatures to the Secretary of State Monday, July 11. Backers of the Compassionate Care Act will head to the Capitol...

Newswise - North Dakota farmers are growing industrial hemp for the first time in more than 70 years, and the New Crops research program in the North Dakota State University Department of Plant Sciences is conducting research to assist them. Professor Burton Johnson leads the New Crops...

Medical marijuana supporters will host a petition signing event from 2-4 p.m. Saturday, May 7 at Chahinkapa Park in Wahpeton. Proponents of the North Dakota Compassionate Care Act, which asks voters to legalize medicinal marijuana, are seeking signatures for a petition in favor of placing the...

A federal judge on Monday lifted a decade-old injunction prohibiting a South Dakota tribal member from producing industrial hemp, although other issues need to be resolved before he can grow it on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Viken of South Dakota said there...

Hundreds of people were streaming into Horizon Middle School to sign a petition Saturday morning. The petition is for the compassionate care act which would legalize the use of medical Marijuana in North Dakota. A second signing event took place at Iron Workers Local in Mandan. If you want to...

The House Health and Human Services Committee advanced a bill authorizing limited use of cannabidiol oil to treat epileptic seizures. Sioux Falls Doctor, and State Senator, Blake Curd, says the evidence is mounting that CBD oil provides relief. Curd says if there was no evidence that CBD oil...

After passing the House by a 57-11 margin on Feb. 4, five Republican senators killed a bill that would have legalized industrial hemp for commercial production and distribution in South Dakota. Rep. Mike Verchio (R-Hill City) along with a bipartisan coalition of 39 cosponsors introduced House...

One state that almost definitely will not be legalizing recreational weed, but has legalized industrial hemp farming, is the state of North Dakota. In fact, AlterNet named North Dakota one of "The 9 States Where Marijuana Will Be Legalized Last." There are a few people in North Dakota...

The use of marijuana for medical purposes has been a controversial issue for many years, some have even tried getting it legalized through the South Dakota Legislature and with ballot measures. Monday night, Black Hills State University-Rapid City held an academic lecture discussing medical...

Farmers in South Dakota could soon be legally allowed to grow industrial hemp. South Dakota's House of Representatives voted 57-11 in favor of a bill that would allow industrial hemp to be cultivated. The bill will now head to the Senate for deliberation. The bill's main House sponsor, Mike...

As South Dakota lawmakers debate whether to allow farmers in the state to grow industrial hemp, the first North Dakota producers are preparing for their first growing season under a state-run pilot program. Adrian, N.D., producer Jamie Edwards and his dad, Lyle Edwards, account for two of five...

Some South Dakota lawmakers are attempting to overcome perceptions about hemp's family ties to marijuana to explore the economic potential of the crop with a bill patterned after North Dakota's industrial hemp law. Cultivation of the plant could be a force for economic development in South...

Western North Dakota has a good shot at becoming home to the state's first industrial hemp facility. Newly formed Quality Agricultural Products, based in Fargo, announced Monday their intentions to build a hemp facility somewhere in North Dakota. Wendy McCord said initial research on land...

With medical cannabis legal in 23 states and the District of Columbia, solid "red-state" North Dakota may follow the nationwide trend that is spreading to even the most conservative states in the nation -- remarkably, Utah, one of the most socially conservative states in the country is one of...

With medical cannabis legal in 23 states and the District of Columbia, solid "red-state" North Dakota may follow the nationwide trend that is spreading to even the most conservative states in the nation -- remarkably, Utah, one of the most socially conservative states in the country is one of...

ackers of a proposed medical marijuana ballot measure can begin gathering signatures Monday following approval of petition language by the North Dakota Secretary of State. Secretary of State Al Jaeger informed the media by email late Monday afternoon that the petition language had been...

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