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Alabama has approved applications from 180 farmers who want to grow hemp, and the first crop will be planted by April, said Alabama Department of Agriculture Commissioner Rick Pate.

Three Democratic House Committee Chairs revealed their proposal to make recreational marijuana legal across the state in Hartford on Thursday.

A smattering of southwest Missouri entrepreneurs were among the more than 1,800 attendees who showed up for the state's first legal medical cannabis trade show, which drew consultants, grow-light purveyors and debt collection agencies based in Colorado and California and elsewhere.

For the first time in his 45 years in the cannabis industry, Steve DeAngelo is feeling pretty darn carefree. But as the co-founder of one of California's most iconic dispensaries, he has a word of warning for states looking to legalize: watch your taxes.

As medical cannabis legalization spreads, more patients are turning to the plant for their complaints and illnesses.

Later this year, Alaska marijuana consumers will be able to buy their cannabis and smoke it, too—all under the same roof.

Your grandparents’ chronic aches and pains might best be eased with a little weed, a new study suggests.

Why cannabis tinctures are the most efficient way to consume weed.

Michigan's medical marijuana market is growing beyond expectations, generating more than $42 million in sales since the first dispensary opened on Nov. 1.

“This bill is long overdue. This is a bill that solves a problem, Get the government out of it.”

Bills to loosen marijuana laws are gaining traction in both parties.

North Dakota’s first medical marijuana dispensary opens for business Friday in a Fargo mini-mall, two years after voters took matters into their own hands to legalize the drug for treatment.

After a decade of working on the first FDA-approved trial examining the effects of THC and CBD on the symptoms of PTSD in war veterans, a team of researchers has declared their clinical trial complete. The process, however, was not simple.

Fresh from entering the medical marijuana market, Florida now envisions taking a healthy slice of the anticipated $22 billion market in hemp.

Like so many small towns in the U.S. during the recession, Smiths Falls, Ontario hit rock bottom in 2008.

Maine officials say the state has signed a three-year contract with a firm to track the growth and distribution of marijuana and marijuana products.

The world’s biggest, most influential cannabis market generated around $300 million in taxes in its first year of commercial legalization.

The USA has jumped into the top ranks of global hemp growing nations, recording a tripling of land under hemp to reach a total 78,176 acres (about 31,000 hectares) in 2018, according to the American hemp advocacy group Vote Hemp.