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When Scott Richard Short's house burned down, he lost everything - including his cannabis crop and growing set-up. The fire was not caused by the sophisticated growing operation he had at the South Dunedin address but fire investigators and police did not have to search too hard to find...

The state-run "Made in Alaska" program is accepting applications from marijuana businesses. According to records obtained by the Empire via a state information act request, a Nikiski business known variously as Hempco LLC and Alaska Cannabis Company, applied for a Made in Alaska...

The Planning and Zoning committee voted against the cultivation and dispensing of medical marijuana being permitted within the city. The vote at Wednesday's meeting was unanimous. City Administrator Bridgette Kabat said the committee's vote has no bearing over the legal use of medical...

The Dallas-Fort Worth business opportunities within the budding cannabis industry could turn out to be really “Kush” or a bunch of seeds and stems. A panel of experts discussed medical cannabis and its impact on the local business community Thursday morning at the Dallas office of Munsch Hardt...

Three small companies – two of them in the Austin metro area – are on the verge of making history by winning the first Texas licenses to grow, process and sell a form of medical marijuana in the state. But the renown isn't expected to equate to quick profits, and success over the long haul...

The State Department of Agriculture said Thursday it's enforcing a ban on hemp products in animal food, and local stores said people are rushing in to stock up. One company that is on the list to get a letter from the state to stop production said they won't be heeding the warning, because...

A drug dealer who was found with more than £300 in cash claimed it was his 'early Christmas money' when quizzed by police. Dale Anthony Edwards was also found with 20 bags of cannabis valued at around £500 when police raided the house he lived at with his mum and sister. Four cannabis...

There was a lineup of people with briefcases and tens of thousands of dollars in hand outside Bangor Township Hall Friday morning. The Bay County township started accepting applications for commercial medical marijuana licenses on Sept. 1 after a summer of crafting ordinances to welcome the...

A former business executive who opposed the legalization of recreational marijuana was tapped Thursday to head the Cannabis Control Commission, a new state agency responsible for regulating pot in Massachusetts. The appointment of Steven Hoffman was announced by state Treasurer Deb Goldberg...

Retail marijuana dispensaries and other businesses related to recreational use of marijuana will be barred from setting up shop in Fresno after the City Council voted 4-3 Thursday to prohibit such establishments. Proposition 64, approved by California voters in November 2016, legalized the...

Bookended between local coffee shops and mom and pop boutiques, a new Lawrence business is setting itself apart selling legal cannabis products. American Shaman Lawrence, located at 1901 S. Massachusetts St., just around the corner from Alchemy Coffee and Bake House, opened in August and has...

It's a growing trend: hemp for pets. But it could soon be harder to find. Utah's Department of Agriculture and Food announced Wednesday it had issued warnings to more than two dozen businesses, asking them to stop manufacturing and selling adulterated or misbranded commercial feed. The...

On 14 plots scattered across Pennsylvania this year, farmers reintroduced what was once a dominant cash crop to the state: industrial hemp, the straight-laced, non-psychoactive cannabis cousin of marijuana. Not one of the growers had any prior experience cultivating the plant, which grows...

Why spend hours hunched over a table nudging buds into baggies when you could get a robot to do it for you? This is the idea behind BudBot, the cannabis packaging robot invented by Seattle entrepreneur Steve Chandler. The machine, which officially hit the market in early August, purports...

Opening a medical marijuana dispensary in Florida naturally comes with a lot of red tape. Marijuana is still considered an illegal substance at the federal level, despite the 29 states that have legalized it for recreational or medicinal use in recent years. That makes it nearly impossible...

A garage in a rented cottage was converted into a hidden cannabis growing factory containing 50 plants with a potential yield of £42,000. The double garage doors were completely blocked off from the inside and the only access to the garage was via a secret trapdoor. The trapdoor was in the...

Footage from the inside of an enormous cannabis farm in Birmingham has emerged, showing hundreds of plants all crammed into a loft. On Thursday police were pictured removing huge bags of the drug from the house in Gregory Avenue, after the discovery was made the previous evening. The...

Tasmanians will be able to apply to access medicinal cannabis from Friday, but doctors and advocates have concerns about how the scheme will work. East Tamar mother Lyn Cleaver uses medicinal cannabis to treat her 26-year-old son Jeremy's seizures. She has applied to access Tasmania's...

Hampden and Wyman Park residents took their concerns about a proposed medical cannabis dispensary to City Hall on Wednesday, as Baltimore City Council members weigh whether to put zoning restrictions on the businesses. In Baltimore – as well as other jurisdictions – some residents have been...

"It's a boom town," says entrepreneur Richard Huang, describing the legal cannabis industry, "but it's not a gold rush, where just any fool can strike it big." As co-founder of the vaporizer company Cloudious9, Huang has picked out his niche, putting time and effort behind the vaping trend. He...