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Tweaking Minnesota's relatively new medical marijuana law isn't in the cards this year. That was the word from the 2014 law's Senate sponsor, Sen. Scott Dibble, DFL-Minneapolis, after Tuesday's meeting of the Task Force on Medical Cannabis Therapeutic Research, which Dibble co-chairs. The...

A seven-year-old Ottawa boy who uses cannabis oil to alleviate seizures caused by a rare form of epilepsy can't get the treatment from a local producer, so his mother is making it herself. Liam McKnight suffers from Dravet syndrome, a condition causing frequent and severe seizures that often...

Wall Street investors are deciding it's time to just say yes to marijuana as legalization of cannabis in more U.S. states has them smelling money-making opportunities. Hundreds of East Coast investors, dressed in business suits and ties, gathered in New York on Wednesday to learn more about...

Survey the latest at the Detroit Auto Show and you will find fibers from water bottles in car seats, hemp in the dashboards and citrus peel in the tires. Automakers, in a continuing quest to develop lighter and more environmentally-friendly vehicles, are making increased use of sometimes...

The state Department of Agriculture expects to resume issuing licenses to grow industrial hemp by the end of February, but some problems continue to dog the new crop. The state issued 11 hemp licenses in 2015 before cutting off the process in August. Nine of the licensees planted a crop and...

After years of delay from state agencies running Oregon's hemp program, the Legislature aired its latest ideas for hemp in Oregon. Among them: folding hemp into the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program but not limiting the number of plants growers can produce. The proposal appears to directly...

The plants of two farmers under Oregon's fledgling hemp industry tested slightly above the federally designated limit that distinguishes hemp from its close cousin, marijuana. Thus the growers were found out of compliance and their plants remain embargoed by the state. Bend area hemp farmer...

Political activist and candidate for US Senate Chief Wana Dubie was permitted Thursday to hold a hemp demonstration on the courthouse square April 23. Wana Dubie said his initial wish was for his Hemp Day rally to take place at 4:20 p.m. April 20, but the commissioners said a Wednesday afternoon...

Political activist and candidate for US Senate Chief Wana Dubie was permitted Thursday to hold a hemp demonstration on the courthouse square April 23. Wana Dubie said his initial wish was for his Hemp Day rally to take place at 4:20 p.m. April 20, but the commissioners said a Wednesday afternoon...

The Gaylord City Council approved an amendment to the city zoning ordinance in regards to medical marijuana facilities at their meeting Monday despite a small amount of opposition. Council members approved the proposed amendment 5-1 – with Councilman Todd Sharrard opposed and Councilman Bill...

When Malinda Heiner was 16 months old, a 53-minute seizure changed the course of her life forever. Malinda's brain suffered so much damage that she hasn't stopped seizing since. Now 14 years old, Malinda has 30 to 40 seizures a day. She's confined to a wheelchair, not speaking, not...

District Attorney Sim Gill appeared alongside dozens of people who have admitted to using medical marijuana in a show of support for legislation that would legalize it in Utah. "We need to start thinking about our public policy," Gill said Wednesday. A pair of bills are being introduced in...

The Nevada County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted 4-to-1 to implement an urgency ordinance that immediately prohibits outdoor marijuana grows and limits the number of indoor medicinal plants. The board also voted 4-to-1 to place the issue on the June 7 ballot, giving county voters the...

For Kristin Nevedal, Super Silver Haze is not always the same Super Silver Haze. Like the concept of "terroir" in foods, she and many growers believe the characteristics of cannabis plants vary depending on their local environment. "There are obvious differences between, say, a Super Silver...

Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill on Wednesday joined a well-organized push for Utah lawmakers to pass a medical marijuana bill this year. Gill, a Democrat, joined about 30 people at Utah's State Capitol on Wednesday who want to use the drug to treat medical conditions. The group...

Oregon's recreational marijuana consumers, at least those who opt to shop in dispensaries, seem to be taking a new state sales tax in stride, many dispensary owners say. On Jan. 1, after a three-month tax holiday, Oregon imposed a 25 percent sales tax on recreational marijuana sales. The tax...

Soldiers in the Ottawa Valley now will have improved access to the care and medicine they need to deal with the trauma of combat. Marijuana For Trauma (MFT) has opened up a new chapter in Petawawa, its first in Eastern Ontario, to provide alternative medical solutions to members of Canada's...

A former high-ranking colleague and friend of MP Bill Blair, the Liberal government's point man on marijuana legalization, will lobby the ex-Toronto police chief in hopes of ensuring a tightly controlled system in which only licensed firms are allowed to grow the lucrative drug. Kim Derry, a...

A measure aimed at closing The Higher Calling cannabis club in Fairbanks has been postponed, with sponsor Councilman David Pruhs saying he wants to see how the Alaska Legislature handles marijuana clubs before the city takes action. "I am not backing down," Pruhs said Tuesday, a day after the...

Two state lawmakers are pushing to make it more difficult for some people to get medical marijuana. And both measures may be illegal. Rep. Kelly Townsend, R-Mesa, wants to make it a crime for a woman who is pregnant to possess the drug. That would overrule any finding by her doctor that...