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An industrial hemp extraction plant is coming to Lake City in Florence County. The industrial hemp may be the new cash crop for farmers and can be used for several things, including possible health treatments. Those involved in the hemp extraction industry claim the product can be used to...

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture created an industrial hemp research pilot program in 2015 to study different aspects of hemp production. This is the first year that the MDA has allowed certified seed production, or essentially growing seeds from pure seed stock. Meet and greet Mike...

People may do a double take when they look inside a greenhouse on the campus of Middle Tennessee State University, but what they're looking at is not marijuana. It's hemp, and yes, there is a difference. There are only trace amounts of THC -- the substance that makes people high -- in hemp...

A first-of-its-kind public event on industrial hemp will be held Aug. 17 at Virginia State University’s Randolph Farm. The field day will be open to potential growers, researchers, marketing experts and industrial hemp producers to discuss the future of the crop in Virginia and neighboring...

House Bill 230, introduced in the Wyoming State Legislature in January and passed into law without Governor Matt Mead's signature earlier this year, could offer Wyoming the chance to grow industrial hemp for research purposes, joining 20 others states in the development of what was once a...

Several U.S. senators, including Rand Paul (R-KY), want Attorney General Jeff Session to reassure industrial hemp farmers that the Justice Department will abide by legislation restricting federal interference in the fledgling industry. In a letter to Sessions released Friday, Sens. Paul, Jeff...

Baby hemp plants are sending off their distinct skunky smell at a farm in Pahrump, but these weeds won't wind up in a joint. The farm is one of the state's cultivators of hemp crops that have almost no THC, the psychoactive compound that gives marijuana users a high. A new law means plants...

Weed is becoming a more economically viable industry by the minute. Nevada raked in $3 million dollars in sales revenue over the weekend, more businesses are deciding not to include marijuana in their employee drug tests (including the Seattle Times), and West Virginian farmers are looking to...

If you're looking to get high, don't walk into Jason Todack's Hemp Oil shop. "I've had 18-year-old kids walk in here and think it's going to get them high and and we explain what exactly it is and it's like oh they don't spend anything," Todack said. Todack sells cannabidiol, known as...

Dairy, wine ... hemp? If the currently restrictive laws on the cultivation of cannabis were loosened, it could change the agricultural landscape of New Zealand. "I think it will be up there with dairy and other agricultural commodities," says Richard Barge about low-THC industrial hemp. "It...

Hemp and marijuana are often perceived as identical twins - as one and the same. In reality though, they are more like distant cousins that only convene at awkward family gatherings. The seeds and oil do indeed come from the hemp plant, Cannabis Sativa, which is the same species from which...

Regional Hemp Steering Committee executives undertook a trade mission from June 5 to 12 to the Netherlands to make contacts and raise awareness of the potential for Alberta-grown hemp. Drayton Valley-Devon MLA Mark Smith, who also took part in the trade mission, said the Regional Hemp...

Cannabis is as American as apple pie and baseball. No matter what people think or say about marijuana, it's hard to deny that the herb has helped shape American culture and history. Don't believe it? This Fourth of July holiday weekend, we give you 7 reasons marijuana is patriotic af . Happy...

Independence Day aside, Tuesday marked the first day citizens could apply to the Agriculture commissioner for a license to grow industrial hemp for commercial purposes, though several industry pioneers are already well into their second growing season and thinking big. Morgan Leach serves as...

An unassuming cattle farm in the rural town of Marion in Wayne County is set to be the future home of an ambitious agricultural experiment. The experiment is on hemp, a member of the cannabis family, grown for its fibrous properties as opposed to its recreational use. According to the...

After months of delay, the state Department of Agriculture is moving forward with its goal of developing a line of Hawaii hemp seeds and an eventual statewide hemp industry. The department received its import registration permit from the state Drug Enforcement Agency earlier this month, after...

Starting Saturday, gas in South Carolina will cost more, but a state employee's take home-pay will be less. Those are just two of the better-known changes to S.C. law passed by the Legislature this year. But lawmakers made other changes that soon will affect your life or already may have...

Matt Collogan, the education director at Hemp Farmacy in Wilmington, says industrial hemp and marijuana are like a wolf and a poodle: same species, different creature. Or, to use a closer analogy, same plant, different strains. Hemp and marijuana are both cannabis sativa, but the two are...

A glass building labeled "Greenhouse Area 17" sits behind the Life Sciences building on the campus of Colorado State University-Pueblo. It's not like the mysterious Area 51 where secret studies may be ongoing, but the more than 50-year-old structure has quickly become the school's major hub...

In downtown Wilmington, Matt Collogan is teaching area residents and visitors about something many have heard of but not fully understand — hemp. Hemp has been included in restrictions, leaving the many benefits it offers to be missed. Much of the criticism of hemp comes from its similarities...