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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...

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...

In a congressional environment where industrial hemp has prominent supporters on both sides of the aisle, U.S. Rep. James Comer, R-Tompkinsville, aims to present a bill during the current legislative session calling for national legalization of the crop. Comer spokesman Michael Gossum said...

Corinto, Colombia – For years, Blanca Riveros has had the same routine: After fixing breakfast and taking her son to school, she heads home to a large plastic trash bag filled with marijuana. She trims the plants and gets them ready for Colombian drug traffickers. After school, her son helps...

ATLANTA — A call to scale back part of the state's medical cannabis program quickly found opposition. The proposal, which comes from the Senate, seeks to reduce the percentage of THC allowed in cannabis oil. Under the proposal, it would go from 5 percent to 3 percent. The measure would...

Queensland could have looked at a compassionate scheme to not prosecute people using whole plant medicinal cannabis, the state's One Nation MP says. Member for Buderim Steve Dickson said in that New South Wales police were given guidelines not to prosecute terminally ill people found with...

A few months after the Inman family traipsed the State House halls to press lawmakers to legalize medical marijuana, doctors wanted to cut open their son's head, again. Jenny and Alex Inman had helped reshape Maryland's medical marijuana laws as parent-advocates, telling lawmakers the drug held...

Gray — The Town Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to extend Gray's moratorium on marijuana retail stores and social clubs, effectively banning those establishments in Gray for at least another six months. The move extends the previous 180-day moratorium put in place by the council last...

A company proposing a medical marijuana facility in Chardon is steering away from the city. Mayor Nancy McArthur reported at the March 9 City Council meeting that Willoughby-based GrowthOrchard is pursuing a larger facility than originally intended. Last month, business representative John...

Loudonville — Loudonville residents have mostly had positive reactions to village council's support of a Cleveland-based company's possible state application to build a medical marijuana growing facility in the village's industrial park, Mayor Stephen Stricklen said this week. Council voted...

UXBRIDGE – The Weeds My Biz marijuana dispensary didn't see much business during its short-lived opening in downtown Uxbridge. The dispensary opened for business briefly Feb. 24 in a storefront on the corner of Toronto and Main streets, but was quickly closed when an employee received notice...

The head of the advocacy effort to legalize marijuana in Rhode Island told GoLocal that he believes that there is support in the General Assembly this year to approve the measure -- if it comes to a vote. Jared Moffat with RegulateRI appeared on GoLocal LIVE to make the case for...

The town will ask voters at Town Meeting to approve an 18-month moratorium on recreational marijuana sales. In the statewide election last November, voters approved a law allowing the cultivation, distribution, possession and use of marijuana for recreational purposes. On Dec. 15, it became...

Boston - The Legislature's new marijuana committee will begin its work in earnest later this month with an "overview" hearing at the State House before holding similar hearings elsewhere in the state, the committee chairs said Wednesday. The hearing, scheduled for 11 a.m. on March 20, will be...

DuBois – Differing viewpoints were heard from the Sandy Township Supervisors about supporting two proposed medical marijuana businesses. DuBois Biopharma wants to build a medical marijuana growing and processing facility in Corbet Industrial Park located on Platt Road in the township. The...

As most marijuana-reform advocates know, getting any bill passed in Texas relating to even the tiniest amounts of pot "is like trying to clean the Statue of Liberty while licking it," as State Representative Harold Dutton (D-Houston) once described it. But at least on Monday, one marijuana...

Pataskala - The city's ongoing debate regarding whether to permit or prohibit medical marijuana businesses could be coming to an end. In late February, Pataskala Law Director Brian Zets provided Pataskala City Council with information regarding the state's new medical marijuana program. The...

A mother who walked from Cork to Dublin to demand access to medicinal cannabis for her seven-year-old daughter has been told it would be "wholly inappropriate" for the Health Minister to greenlight the treatment. Vera Twomey said she was left waiting nine hours for vital documents promised by...

A cannabis evangelist who pioneered one of Canada's earliest dispensaries is not sitting back waiting for the Trudeau government to provide Canadians with legal marijuana. "I'll believe it when I see it," said Dana Larsen, who operates a dispensary in Vancouver, served as editor of Cannabis...

North Smithfield — Citing threats to public health and safety, an official from the Office of Attorney General urged Town Council members this week to consider marijuana growers one of the town's most urgent concerns. Town Administrator Gary Ezovski, (pictured right), also said that marijuana...