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Tulare County Sheriff's deputies and U.S. Forest agents are in the midst of marijuana season. Last year, detectives raided more than 20 large-scale grow sites. This year could be more. While voters approved the legalization of marijuana, the law comes with limitations. Tulare County...

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...

Farmers across North Dakota could be growing some new green, as hemp crops expand across the state. Farmers trekked to Pembina County on Wednesday to learn more about the budding hemp business in the state. Most farms are growing hemp for the seeds as part of a pilot program. While it's...

Farmers in South Carolina are now able to apply to grow industrial hemp. Thanks to the passing of H.3359 by the South Carolina General Assembly this year, the state's Department of Agriculture will allow up to 20 farmers to grow hemp in 2017. Industrial hemp is grown as an agricultural...

Ask advocates of marijuana legalization how their cause fared during the 2017 state legislative sessions, and they'll tell you that though the gains were incremental; they're hopeful several legislatures eventually will make possession and sale of the federally prohibited drug legal. Ask the...

A veteran city correction officer was busted by a drug-detecting dog as he tried to smuggle marijuana into a jail, authorities said Sunday. Christian Mizell, 48, of Jamaica, Queens, was nabbed by the front gate of the Manhattan Detention Complex on Saturday morning, court records show. He...

More than 80 Vermonters are now registered to grow industrial hemp this year, state officials said. Hemp farming appears to be on the rise three years after legalization, Vermont Public Radio reported. But, there were some difficulties. John Williamson, of State Line Farm in North...

More than 80 Vermonters registered with the Agency of Agriculture to grow industrial hemp in 2017, the third growing season since legalization in 2013. And while more than four times the number of people who signed up last year are growing in 2017, experienced growers have had a range of...

Ohio regulators say they'll need another $5.6 million this year for a medical marijuana tracking database, a toll-free help line and anticipated legal costs responding to lawsuits and complaints challenging the state's licensing process. The Ohio Department of Commerce and State Board of...

Greetings from Ontario, Canada... Not such a great growing season this year, lots of rain and cloudy days. Below normal temperatures for this time of year too. I have been gardening since I was old enough my Dad put a shovel in my hand. Flowers and Vegetables. Where ever there was opportunity...

You don't have to be Nostradamus to successfully predict that more states will legalize marijuana -- whether for medicinal use only or for recreational use. A bandwagon effect seems quite likely, considering 29 states plus the District of Columbia have already legalized medical marijuana. Nine...

There's one bummer question haunting all the marijuana businesses popping up between British Columbia and Newfoundland. How much do Canucks like weed, eh? A year before recreational cannabis is expected to become legal in Canada, there's an explosion in companies cultivating the stuff. At...

New legislation would force the federal government to allow veterans to obtain medical marijuana in states, like California, where it's legal. The amendment to force the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to make cannabis available to veterans who need it was recently approved by the...

The one-year suspension of Ravens tight end Darren Waller for a substance-abuse violation raised several red flags, which is not a surprise. Red flags about Waller, of course, and about the Ravens, who, according to an ESPN.com account, have had the most players suspended for various drug...

Starting Saturday, gas in South Carolina will cost more, but a state employee's take home-pay will be less. Those are just two of the better-known changes to S.C. law passed by the Legislature this year. But lawmakers made other changes that soon will affect your life or already may have...

After a slow first year of legal marijuana use in Minnesota, thousands of new patients flooded in last summer when the program expanded to serve people suffering from intractable pain. It's been two years since the first Minnesotans picked up prescriptions for medical marijuana. The...

We picked up our cannabis clones about a month ago to embark on our third-year adventure of growing cannabis plants on the WW roof. Here's how we're doing so far. We've been growing cannabis plants in our office since marijuana was legalized in 2015. Last month, we set up the four clones...

Marijuana sales in Nevada's newly minted legal recreational market will begin on Saturday. Starting at 12:01 a.m. July 1, adults age 21 and older will be able to buy up to an ounce of marijuana, or one-eighth of an ounce in marijuana-infused edibles and concentrates. Retail sales will be...

Farmers and Ranchers in the western half of North Dakota have been looking to the sky, begging for rain for months. Producers of one crop, however, aren't sweating as hard as the rest. Industrial hemp may look like marijuana, but it has none of the ingredients that give smokers a high. It...

Kazakhstan has decided to profit from its natural cannabis riches and intends to start exporting hemp products to the Netherlands, Russia and China, TengriNews website has reported. TengriNews on June 15 cited the Agriculture Ministry as saying that around six square kilometers of industrial...