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A New Paris man was found in possession of about 5 pounds of marijuana and drug paraphernalia during a search in September, state police said. State police in Bedford said a search of 111 Thomas Drive on Sept. 19 revealed the marijuana and drug paraphernalia. Police said they responded to...

What sort of issues crop up when your industry is locally legal yet federally prohibited, as is the case with marijuana businesses? Banking issues. “The banking problem is probably the most challenging hurdle for entrepreneurs who want to be involved in legal cannabis,” Marijuana Business...

The budding marijuana industry is spurring new research around cannabis that will have long-term effects on a variety of fields, from farming to new medicine, as companies look for solid scientific data on the substance. With the looming legalization of recreational pot next summer, and the...

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox on Saturday made the case for broad-scale marijuana legalization in Arizona, telling a Phoenix crowd the days of failed drug policies were fading, despite rhetoric from President Donald Trump's White House. Speaking to hundreds of entrepreneurs, industry...

The Warren Planning Board unanimously approved a plan for an organic certified produce and medical marijuana farm on Atlantic Highway at its Oct. 12 meeting. A chef by trade who has a restaurant in Westchester, PA, plans on growing unique vegetables for sale to local businesses and treating...

Marijuana farmers and dispensary owners across Northern California are nervously watching as wildfires burn through some of the state's prime cannabis growing areas and destroy valuable crops, which could drive up prices for consumers across the country. "This is right smack in the middle of...

Sunshine Coast mum Katrina Spraggon is so desperate to get her daughter Kaitlyn the cannabis oil that stops the nine-year-old's crippling seizures that she has started making the illegal drug herself. Ms Spraggon said she had tried everything to get Queensland Health to prescribe the drug...

Queen City Sausage probably won't help Kroger steal customers from Whole Foods, but Queen City Hemp just might. Hence, the Findlay Market startup was among more than 40 vendors invited to a natural foods innovation summit Thursday at the 84.51 building Downtown. Kroger and its data-mining...

Oregon farmers planted the state’s first legal crops of industrial hemp a couple of years ago. Now the first Washington state farmer to plant the non-drug cousin of marijuana has harvested the crop. 
 Hemp entrepreneur Cory Sharp is fairly happy with Washington’s first legal crop in almost 90...

At first when Wade Fischer was harvesting his industrial hemp, he thought he had a pretty good yield. That was before he weighed the crop. "I thought we had 800 bushels, but it's so light," Fischer said. "We only had 500. I'm definitely not making money on that. I'm going in the hole on...

Marijuana entrepreneurs, enthusiasts, educators and non-profits headed to the Phoenix Convention Center to learn more about the marijuana industry and what its future may look like. Many attendees and exhibitors at the third annual Southwest Cannabis Conference and Expo have a positive...

When Tyler Smith was diagnosed with testicular cancer, medical marijuana didn't feel like a valid option. He took opioids to manage the pain of nine months of chemotherapy. To balance the side effects, he took anti-nausea medication. When he stopped wanting food, he couldn't find anything...

Talk about a buzz kill: In addition to charring acres of wine country north of San Francisco, California's sweeping wildfires are also destroying cannabis farms in and around the state's Emerald Triangle. For many producers, the financial losses include not just harvest-ready crops, but...

The Kern County Planning Commission voted Thursday night to permit and regulate commercial marijuana in Kern County. Now it sends that recommendation to the Kern County Board of Supervisors for its consideration on Oct. 24. Commissioner Melissa Poole said the county doesn't have the...

California's $21 billion cannabis economy is reeling from likely more than a billion dollars in crop losses related to the deadly wildfires sweeping through the cultivation heartlands of Mendocino, Sonoma and Napa counties this week. Compounding the losses is the cannabis industry's legal...

Would-be medical marijuana users in Florida say they're waiting as long as three months to get state-issued cards they need to get the drug. The state agency that gives out the cards is hiring more workers to cut down on wait times. Florida's Office of Medical Marijuana Use says it should...

The city of Los Angeles may make it more difficult for residents to challenge marijuana dispensary business licenses. The Los Angeles City Council is considering legislation that would only allow individuals who work, live or own property within 500 feet of a marijuana dispensary business to...

An effort to evict a business Thursday led investigators to a marijuana grow operation in Santa Ana, police said. Orange County sheriff's deputies were directed to 1714 E. McFadden Ave. on Thursday, Oct. 12, to evict a business, but when they arrived they discovered a marijuana grow operation...

With two weeks to go before lawmakers vote on new marijuana legislation, state analysts have yet to calculate the fiscal impact of Maine's adult-use cannabis bill. Lawmakers tasked with setting up the new recreational market had projected Maine would collect about $21.4 million a year in...

Kentucky Sen. Dan Seum, R-Fairdale, has said he plans to introduce a bill that would legalize recreational marijuana. With that as a backdrop, members of the state's Veterans and Military Affairs Committee, state workers and members of the public debated the pros and cons of marijuana...