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Valerie Goodew is putting her belief in the medicinal properties of cannabis to a professional test. Last year, Goodew, 21, founded Cannabis Esthetics, a "hemp beauty" business that provides facials, skin care and body treatments using hemp oil and cannabidiol, a nonpsychoactive ingredient...

West Pottsgrove - A proposal to construct a 100,000-square-foot indoor medical marijuana growing facility on the site of the former Stanley G. Flagg Brass plant in Stowe will not be opposed by the township commissioners. That's thanks to a unanimous vote taken at Wednesday night's work...

Here's one thing Californians might not have to worry about from the Trump administration: interference in the state's annual $7 billion cannabis industry. While there has been speculation about how the month-old administration, particularly cannabis-shaming Attorney General Jeff Sessions...

Candice Rader is a 66-year-old retiree who grew up in a conservative home, voted for Donald Trump and watched her father suffer as a terminal cancer patient in the late 1970s before he died at the age of 53. Even though a friend offered her father marijuana to help alleviate his nausea, Rader...

Missoula – At a court hearing in Missoula on Friday, a federal agent admitted they had no idea how much marijuana a pair of Bozeman medical marijuana providers were allowed to have when they raided their store and home last spring with another saying the only patients using the maximum allowed...

Alaska became the third state to legalize recreational marijuana in 2015, but it's not exactly ahead of the curve on hemp, which comes from the same plant. Now, with growing pressure to diversify Alaska's economy, lawmakers are talking about legalizing hemp for commercial purposes – something...

Phoenix — Voters may get another chance next year to legalize marijuana use by adults. Members of a group called Safer Arizona 2018 filed the paperwork Thursday with the secretary of state's office to begin collecting signatures to put the issue on the ballot. They need 150,642 valid...

Commercial medical marijuana farming in Calaveras County was worth about $340 million last year, likely making pot the struggling county's No. 1 industry, a new study finds. The analysis by University of the Pacific's Center for Business and Policy Research was commissioned by supporters of...

Proposed legislation that would make significant changes to a medical marijuana initiative passed by voters last fall will be among the highlights of the final week of floor sessions prior to crossover. Senate Bill 2344 is expected to move out of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday...

Atlanta – Sebastien Cotte swears by the power of medical marijuana. For several years, he has been using cannabis oil to treat his son, Jagger, who has a rare and terminal neurological disorder called Leigh's disease. The oil has allowed him to cut back on using pharmaceuticals, including...

The trucking industry is grappling with how Arkansas' recent legalization of medical marijuana will affect it. While commercial drivers license holders are strictly regulated at the federal level, the Arkansas Legislature is left to work out how other "safety sensitive" positions across all...

In the plastics lab at Penn State Behrend, professor Brian Young is leading a small group of students who are exploring ways to use hemp fibers as an additive to plastic. It's a project that would have seemed unlikely just a few years ago. That was before February 2014, when President Barack...

A Colorado Springs company that bills itself as one of the nation's largest hemp oil suppliers wants to more than quadruple the size of its local operation to accommodate a rapidly growing market for its products. Whole Hemp Company, which does business as Folium Biosciences, cultivates and...

What's in a name? Plenty, if you're a conservative state lawmaker trying to convince colleagues to give the green light to a revenue-producing crop that could revolutionize the Wyoming agricultural industry. The legislator is Rep. Bunky Loucks, R-Casper, and what he'd like to see is farmers...

South Dakota residents who pass background checks and get a license from the state agriculture department would be allowed to cultivate industrial hemp under a measure a House panel approved Thursday. The Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee voted 9-2 to approve the plan, which now...

The federal ban on marijuana means banking is a big problem for marijuana businesses. Some owners are driving around with hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash. But now, one small Willamette Valley credit union is opening accounts for them. Shane Saunders with MAPS Credit Union said...

Lori Ajax, chief of the Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation, talked to us on Friday at the International Cannabis Business Conference in San Francisco. What's up with weed? Here are the most interesting things we've learned: 1. The state's on schedule — so you may actually be able to...

U.S. Rep. Jared Polis joined congressmen from three three other states where recreational marijuana is legal to officially launch the Cannabis Caucus on Thursday. The caucus aims to protect states that have already legalized marijuana from federal intervention and also make it easier for...

The Georgia Senate voted on Thursday open the state's medical marijuana registry to patents who have autism and to roll back the amount of THC that's allowed in medical cannabis oil in Georgia. State Sen. Ben Watson, R-Savannah, author of Senate Bill 16, said that he thinks there is anecdotal...

A bill providing for research of the medical uses for cannabis extracts passed through a committee Thursday and will now head to the full Utah Senate for consideration. The bill's sponsor, Rep. Brad Daw, R-Orem, said the bill's purpose is to gather enough credible research on cannabis extracts...