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In just two months, Texans suffering from intractable epilepsy will be able to purchase a type of medicinal cannabis approved by the state. The dispensary itself is located outside a rural Texas town better known for its dancehalls, polka music and kolaches. Austin mom Katie Graham, sips...

April 4, 2016, was a big day for Matt Hobson – and it was very nearly a big day for Colorado's cannabis industry. That was the day that 29-year-old Hobson and other employees at Pueblo West Organics, a medical and recreational marijuana dispensary in Pueblo West, a municipal district just...

Folks in the cannabis industry fear that cultivation, production and retail regulations could drive up the price of weed just when consumers are able to buy in stores without a doctor's recommendation. In January, recreational weed sales for those 21 and older are expected to mark a new era in...

"The belly dancing class will start on the great lawn in five minutes," announces a soothing female voice over the public address system. After a pause, she adds, "I love you." Ten minutes later, I see a dozen or so women slowly make their way to lawn, stopping every few feet to readjust...

Marijuana and beer have always had a connection. Hops plants and cannabis are members of the same genus and have a closely related molecular structure. (And we won't even get into how many brewers like to sample both.) Those ties are slowly becoming more formal, though. In 2015 and 2016...

Jesse Peters worries about the phone book. He worries about junk mail, and snack wrappers, and the brown bags his cannabis growers at Canby's Eco Firma Farms use to carry their sandwiches to work. And he's also lost a lot of sleep worrying about where to put his bedroom. Specifically, he...

There's something special about Oregon's cannabis community. Besides our long history of cultivation and breeding, we've done groundbreaking research and innovation that focuses on understanding cannabis as a plant. Most of our successful dispensaries, farms and industry organizations are led by...

It's a complicated subject, but today Eric Wang wanted to make sure no question went unanswered. "I call it ground zero for hemp," Wong told WKYT. He's talking about a 500-acre hemp farm housed in Harrison County. A farm that's been years in the making. That's Brian Furnish he's...

It's always refreshing to see the cannabis industry treated like any other line of work, and that's exactly how Thornton's Anythink Library treated it during its Anythink Startup Month activities. Dedicated to highlighting local businesses and resources in order to foster career skills, the...

Some South Dakota farmers are watching closely as North Dakota brings in its second industrial hemp crop. It's a pilot program that South Dakota lawmakers have eyed in the past. There was even a bill to create a hemp pilot program that stalled in the statehouse last year. When the Ag...

Judging by the long lines that snaked away from the Dad & Dudes Breweria booth at the Great American Beer Festival the past two years, just about everywhere in Denver has tried cannabis beer. Last year's version, called George Washington's Secret Stash, was an IPA infused with cannabidiol, a...

There was no shortage of comments as scores of Mainers filled a hearing room and two overflow rooms at the State House to express their concerns with proposed legislation to regulate the recreational sale of marijuana in Maine. And those testifying were not shy about spelling out what they don't...

They've written guides about growing fruit, vegetables, houseplants and more. Now, the authors of a popular gardening series have set their sights on something a little different. "What's Wrong with My Marijuana Plant? A Cannabis Grower's Visual Guide to Easy Diagnosis and Organic Remedies"...

Thanks to the country's liberal research policies, two studies are progressing that could dramatically improve the lives of autistic kids and their families. A 10-year-old autistic boy named Einav and his family were spiraling to a dangerous low point a year ago. The parents soldiered through...

Hi I bought a bottle of Biobloom last week, seeing that I only see and hear good things about it. On the front of the bottle it says NPK ratio is 2-7-4, which is good for cannabis in my opinion, but on the back where the finer details are its says (N) 19,2g/kg (P) 26,6g/kg (K) 30,1g/kg...

In the airy first-floor lounge of Balfour Senior Living at Riverfront Park in downtown Denver, Dr. Joe Cohen prepares to speak to a packed house. This is "Cannabis 101 for Seniors," a talk he's given before. Michael Schonbrun, Balfour's CEO, says he's got residents in almost all of his Colorado...

On Saturday, Sept. 9, about 400 people gathered at the Burke Mountain Resort for Hemp Fest, a daylong series of workshops and displays focused on the cultivation of industrial hemp. Hemp Fest was organized by Heady Vermont, an advocacy group dedicated to what it calls "cannabis culture."...

It was just three years ago that Minnesota approached medical marijuana, a clearly humanitarian treatment for people laid low by chemotherapy and seizures, with brazen timidity. What ultimately passed was one of the nation's most restrictive programs, which did little to tame an estimated...

The first two people that chef and restaurateur Jeff Black consulted before he officially decided to get in the medical cannabis business were his kids, then 12 and 13. "I sat them down, and I said, 'I'm not going to do this if there's going to be some stigma against you in school. I'm not...

Hollywood and marijuana have been bedfellows at least since the shocking 1948 arrest of bad boy actor Robert Mitchum for possession spurred tabloid headlines. Then came 1969's "Easy Rider," in which Dennis Hopper's Billy turns the whiskey-drinking Jack Nicholson character onto a spliff and a...