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Kansans for Hemp will host a talk on the benefits of the crop at the Americus City Park from 7 - 8:30 p.m. Wednesday. Kansans for Hemp is a group committed to the growth and support of the industrial hemp industry in Kansas. The hope is for Kansas to join 31 other states across the country by...

This school year, children who are prescribed medical marijuana will be allowed to use the drug in school. "They should treat it like the medication that it is," Ava Pence said. Pence's daughter Meredith suffers from epilepsy. She gives her daughter medicinal marijuana in the form of an...

With over half a million in marijuana tax revenue since 2014, Union Gap is closing out its second year of a First through Seventh grade summer camp, funded by a portion of the money. The Union Gap City Council decided the best way to spend the marijuana money was to give it to youth programs...

History was made on Lake Tahoe's North Shore on Saturday, Aug. 5, when NuLeaf Tahoe opened its doors to recreational marijuana customers, becoming the first dispensary on the lake to sell marijuana to anyone 21 years and older. Customers began showing up at 9 a.m. for the store's 11 a.m...

With thousands of jobs and billions of dollars at stake, it’s a burning question: Is Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions preparing to mess with voter-approved sales of recreational marijuana? It’s a question of prime importance in six Western and two New England states that have legalized marijuana use...

Marijuana's popularity among American adults is on the rise – and use of the recreational drug is expected to continue to increase, according to several surveys. The increase in popularity, along with more permissive attitudes toward marijuana use, may be due in part to its changing...

"There are people in this room that have been waiting 20, 30 years for this." Mike Lewis with the Inland Cannabis Farmers' Association presented his case for commercial cannabis to the Butte County Board of Supervisors, but his pleas, along with those of more than a dozen other marijuana...

Australian drug regulators have granted what is believed to be the first license to manufacture and supply medical cannabis in WA. AusCann, whose chairman is former WA Federal Liberal MP Mal Washer, has been granted a manufacturing license by the Office of Drug Control, paving the way for it...

Patients rejoiced with smiles and shouts Tuesday after making the first legal purchases of medical cannabis at a licensed dispensary in the state at Maui Grown Therapies in Kahului. The Maui dispensary, one of two licensed on the island, got the green light from the state Department of Health...

There's a lot of expectation invested in a few acres of hemp growing on a hill overlooking the small town of Callaway on the edge of the White Earth Reservation. "I'm kinda nervous," says tribal secretary-treasurer Tara Mason. "I don't think I've been this concerned about how a crop is doing...

The Fillmore City Council voted Tuesday night to reaffirm its ban on marijuana businesses, disrupting the plans of a medical marijuana collective that had hoped to build an indoor farm in the city. Coast To Coast Collective, a medical marijuana dispensary in Canoga Park, is in escrow on a...

If you've got drugs aboard and are having battery issues on your boat, maybe you shouldn't call the Coast Guard for help. That's what happened in San Diego on Sunday morning, leading to the seizure of 1,200 pounds of marijuana, the US Coast Guard said Tuesday. The distress call came in...

Merced County residents no longer face misdemeanor criminal charges for small amounts of marijuana, but sheriff's deputies continue chopping down thousands of marijuana plants each year hoping no blood will be shed at large operations run by criminal organizations. "The reason we are so...

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, among the most well-known living scientists this side of Stephen Hawking, said this week that "there's no reason for [marijuana] to ever have been made illegal." The remark came in response to a question submitted by Tom Angell of the pro-legalization group...

Marijuana legalization is an issue that can bring together people from all over the political spectrum. From libertarians to socialists, almost any political ideology can support legal cannabis. But that doesn't mean that it's not surprising when certain famous people support the issue. Here are...

A Friendship man recently submitted a proposition to legalize marijuana, a change that he said would benefit taxpayers, local government and school districts. Ryan M. Cross said he submitted the proposition, called Proposition 585, to Allegany County Clerk of the Board Brenda Rigby Riehle last...

State lawmakers have no legal right to make it a crime for medical marijuana users to possess the drug on college campuses, an attorney for a student who was arrested is arguing to the Arizona Supreme Court. In new legal filings, attorney Thomas Dean is urging the justices to void the...

Two former Kern County Sheriff's deputies avoided prison time Monday for stealing and selling marijuana that was seized during drug busts. Logan August and Derrick Penney were sentenced Monday to three years' probation for the charge of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to...

The hemp industry has already kicked off in Halifax County in Hobgood, and eventually the fibrous plants will become medicinal products. Local farmer and veteran Scott Propheter gave the Halifax County Board of Commissioners an overlook on how the hemp industry was managing in the area...

After the Calaveras Board of Supervisors decided to regulate medical cannabis in 2016, they took in $3.7 million in fees from people who wanted to grow medical cannabis. Now, the County Auditor says the Sheriff's Department has misspent some of those funds. Calaveras' journey to a...