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Prior to passage of Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana law, politicians and advocates spoke with compassion about how it would provide alternative care to the sick and infirm. Now altruism could be taking a backseat to capitalism. As the Heath Department tries to get the industry started...

Pennsylvania's 17-month-old Medical Marijuana Act prohibits elected and appointed public officials from having a financial stake in the burgeoning industry or working directly or indirectly for a cannabis company while serving in state government. Yet that did not prevent state Sen. Daylin...

Though South Carolina has cleared the way, when farmers can begin growing industrial hemp is still being worked out. State officials soon hope to enable farmers to apply to be part of a pilot program, in line with a 2014 federal farm bill, that allows them to grow, process and sell hemp...

Sen. Daylin Leach (D—Montgomery, Penn.) recently acquired notoriety after engaging in a social media standoff with President Donald Trump. But, this active lawmaker can't be reduced to a simple beef with the president; Leach is an activist, a defender of the cannabis legalization cause...

West Virginia is looking for its next niche crop. The West Virginia Hemp Industries Association (WVHIA) believes this niche crop is industrial hemp. The WVHIA has launched a Go Fund Me campaign to support industrial hemp as the stateâ€s new niche crop, said J. Morgan Leach, of Vienna...

Phoenix – State lawmakers are moving to keep medical marijuana dispensaries in the rural areas of the state. On a 5-4 vote Monday, the House Committee on Military, Veterans and Regulatory Affairs approved legislation which says that those who were the first to open marijuana stores following...

Parkersburg - The half-acre plot of fledgling plants along a hillside at Cedar Lane Farm puts into perspective the return of hemp to West Virginia soil - a resistance-riddled movement struggling to rise out of infancy. Owner Dave Hawkins arrives with a few signs to post around the plot...

Vienna, W.Va. AP - Hemp seeds are being distributed to approved growers in West Virginia for a research project on the crop. State officials say it took two years to create rules governing the project. Applicants must pass background checks before being licensed to participate. The planting of...

Gov. Tom Wolf, state Sen. Daylin Leach, D-17th Dist., and state Rep. Tim Briggs, D-149th Dist., joined about a dozen advocates of the medical marijuana bill Wolf recently signed into law in King of Prussia Tuesday to tout the new legislation and promise its swift implementation. The law, which...

Few victories are sweeter than those that have been a long time coming. Three area lawmakers can attest to that fact. State Sens. Mike Folmer and Daylin Leach and state Rep. Jim Cox played critical roles in the passage of the new medical marijuana law. After years of debate spanning two...