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Since Maine first started accepting Massachusetts medical marijuana cards in late August, stores near the border have seen an influx in customers.

Chronic pain, macular degeneration now on list of approved conditions.

The governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) is calling the legislature into special session this month to consider adult-use marijuana legalization.

Soldiers not only used locally-grown cannabis to cope with the stresses of war while in country; they also brought seeds home to North America, where they would become the progenitors of some of today’s most popular strains.

CBD has dominated the cannabis wellness market so far -- but THCV could be the next contender.

Is there “pink-washing” in marijuana, where male-owned businesses use women as cover on an application? Probably. But nevertheless, women persist.

Marijuana’s journey from “reefer madness” to a mainstream product on store shelves is taking another historic step in Michigan this week.

For some, it’s a disappointing delay for a market that has been itching to start since voters approved legalizing marijuana last November.

With three different petition drives hoping to bring recreational marijuana to Florida, legalization will most likely be on the 2020 ballot.

Cannabis is legal in many U.S. states… or is it? The contradictions between state and federal law are intensifying.

The total number of persons arrested in the United States for violating cannabis laws rose for the third consecutive year, according to data released by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Farmers more than quadrupled West Virginia’s industrial hemp crop this year.

While the Navajo Nation Council was debating the merits of hemp production last year, a coalition of private and public entities was quietly doing it.

Pennsylvania is in the grip of a medical marijuana drought, according to multiple dispensary owners from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh.

Montana Department of Agriculture hemp statistics suggest the crop is increasing in popularity.

Thousands of Washington, D.C. city employees can now use marijuana off the clock, whether for medicinal or recreational purposes.

The towns are part of an evolving scorecard of discussions taking place in the suburbs as Illinois becomes the 11th state to legalize consumption of recreational marijuana by people age 21 and over starting Jan. 1.

Between energy-intensive indoor grows and the mountain of plastic packaging, legal weed is not as green as you would think. But some producers are leading the way to sustainability.

As the high-CBD strain that won over skeptics and helped change the national conversation around medical marijuana, Charlotte’s Web may be one of the most famous cannabis strains in the world. Now the strain’s creators have another claim to fame: They hold the first US patent for a cultivar of hemp.

People all across Maine have been buying products containing CBD -- most of it is made from the hemp plant. Given the popularity of the medication, it may not be surprising that a farm in Whitefield is helping people be able to make their own CBD, by making it easy to get the hemp.