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In Kentucky, the University of Louisville's Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research has started growing industrial hemp in an effort to spur its fuels and manufacturing research.

We rarely worry about marijuana. So why is it still a Schedule I drug?

Oregon medical marijuana dispensaries have sold an estimated $102 million in recreational cannabis since January, when the state imposed a 25 percent sales tax on pot.

Organizers are closing in on their goal of collecting 2,300 signatures to get marijuana decriminalization on the November ballot in Kansas City.

Wild marijuana grows in yards, gardens, and weedy industrial sites across the Twin Cities.

Medical marijuana could be the law in the majority of states by the time Election Day is over.

Hemp and marijuana are not the same thing.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mark Connolly strongly supports decriminalizing marijuana in New Hampshire, and he may be willing to go further.

A mainland-based laboratory is expanding to Hawaiʻi with a facility on Maui that will offer cannabis testing as the state’s Medical Marijuana Dispensary Program gets underway.

Hemp is a low impact, fast-growing and clean plant to produce, and extremely versatile.

With legalization of marijuana increasing across the United States, there is more focus than ever on identifying the risks and benefits of the drug. A new study provides further insight, after finding men experience greater pain relief with marijuana use than women.

And if California votes to legalize, other states will follow.

The regulations that will govern Pennsylvania's nascent medical-marijuana industry are quickly taking shape.

Textile mills in regions such as Western North Carolina lie dormant while Americans import about $500 million worth of hemp annually.

A recent change to federal law allowed states to grow test plots of hemp only at university or government sites and Virginia is one 28 that are doing so.

The Delavan facility is working on hundreds of genetic strains, and plants are harvested about five times each year.

Menéndez plans to try and expand medical marijuana to more patients in 2017 when the Texas Legislature gets back to work.

Because the topic still is not usually covered in medical school, seasoned doctors, as well as younger ones, often consider themselves ill-equipped.