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As North Dakota's hemp industry soars, legal questions have kept producers from making one of the crop's most desirable derivatives. That product is cannabidiol, or CBD, a non-psychoactive substance derived from cannabis plants, which has been said to help people with seizures and anxiety...

The Hemp Farmacy is the first to import legal certified hemp seed into North Carolina for the first time in eighty years. Hempleton Investment Group says it has been working for two years to establish interest in North Carolina hemp production and to meet all requirements in order to obtain an...

A possible error in the Congressional spending bill left North Dakota off a list of states with legalized medical marijuana, raising questions about potential impacts for the state as it launches a new program. An amendment in the bill lists states that have legalized medical marijuana and...

For years, there have been rumors that North Korea is a "weed-smoker's paradise." Cannabis is said to grow wildly there, and people can reportedly buy it in large, bazaar-style marketplaces and smoke it wherever they like. But marijuana's legal status in North Korea is hazy. An...

North Korean authorities are instructing farmers to grow cannabis, and sources say the state plans to use that cannabis oil to fuel unmanned aerial vehicles, Radio Free Asia (RFA) reports via UPI. The state has instructed people to cultivate hemp, rather than traditional soybeans, in order to...

Hi Everyone, am from the North East of England, am a sanddancer. Term for my area of people. Enjoy smoking, currently considering growing, aware of social and medical value of the green stuff. Feel would be better than knocking on doors. + will for once get correct strain, for my condition...

The field where corn grew last year could be covered this summer in plants that look a lot like marijuana. North Carolina is calling for farmers to grow industrial hemp as part of a statewide test. The plant, a nonintoxicating cousin of marijuana, can be used to produce many products such as...

The North Dakota legislature continues to muck about with the state's new voter-approved medical marijuana law, North Carolina sees a full-fledged medical marijuana bill introduced, and more. Iowa Last Thursday, a CBD expansion bill stalled. A bill that could have expanded the use of CBD...

DUPLIN COUNTY, NC - The rich agriculture in North Carolina has seen major changes in the past few years, and now some farmers will be given the opportunity to grow a crop used in a variety of products but had been previously banned. In the 1800s and early 1900s, farmers across America...

Raleigh, N.C. — North Carolina is weeks away from finalizing rules regarding the growing of hemp. Pat McCrory and agriculture commissioner Steve Troxler appointed an industrial hemp commission in the fall. The North Carolina Department of Agriculture is planning a pilot program to research...

North Dakota: Medical Marijuana Law Overview and State Fines/Penalties - 1/01/2017 North Dakota Medical Marijuana Law Measure 5 (2016) The North Dakota Medical Marijuana Legalization creates a comprehensive medical cannabis program for the patients of the state. The program creates...

Bismarck, N.D. – The North Dakota Department of Agriculture say early results for growing hemp look promising and the agency is seeking producers for the second year of planting. The 70 acres planted this year were part of a pilot research project to determine whether the crop could be...

High energy costs and declining cannabis prices have many cultivators thinking about moving their indoor grows into greenhouses. But once that decision is made, those cultivators must determine whether to buy a North American-made greenhouse or import one from the Netherlands, which has...

Bismarck, N.D. – North Dakota's Agriculture Department is seeking participants for the second year of an industrial hemp research program. Three farming operations in three counties grew 70 acres of hemp this year under a federally approved research effort. The goal is to determine whether hemp...

The state has approved a second recreational marijuana business in North Kitsap's Twelve Trees Business Park. Marijuana producer and processor Quality Green Trees received its license Monday from the Liquor and Cannabis Board. It joins Sound Extracts in the business park off Highway 3, north...

Jefferson County Agriculture Coordinator Jay Matteson says the north country should grow a new cash crop - industrial hemp. "I was concerned as well until I did the research and found out hemp is different than marijuana. They don't have the same effects," he said. Hemp is a form of cannabis...

Hi everyone. Been growing and smoking for a long time and stumbled across this site. Just moved from around Chicago to north of Tulsa.

North Pole, Alaska - Communities across Alaska have been struggling with the state's recreational marijuana program, and some are voting to ban sales of legalized marijuana. One of those is North Pole, Alaska. Voters approved Proposition 7, which bans the sale of marijuana within city...

North Attleboro - A medical marijuana facility looking to set up shop in town will no longer pursue plans for a cultivation facility - but a dispensary is not out of the cards, just yet. Selectmen said Thursday the medical marijuana company Hope Heal Health has moved forward with a...

Bismarck, N.D. - They had tearfully but unsuccessfully pleaded to North Dakota lawmakers about how medical marijuana would help their critically ill children or ease their chronic pain. When they took their case to the deeply conservative and religious state's voters, they found victory - a...