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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.

It’s fall harvest time at apple orchards and pumpkin patches, but in one small Maryland town, a very different harvest is taking place.

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.

Recreational cannabis use is illegal in the majority of US states, but the relaxation of hemp and CBD sales has created a set of companies that could more easily grab cannabis product market share if it is legalized. Companies selling CBD products are establishing their brands among consumers, and acquiring shelf space and retail relationships. If recreational cannabis is legalized, those companies can enter that market more quickly than a business starting from scratch.

Starting next year, job seekers in New York City and Nevada will no longer have to worry about whether they’ll flunk a pre-employment drug test — and lose out on a job — because of that joint they smoked the week before.

You may have noticed that CBD -- the non-intoxicating cannabis-derived chemical compound -- can now be found in drugstores, cafés, pet stores, bars, spas, and all over the internet.

Hemp, a versatile plant genetically related to marijuana but with none of its psychoactive effects, can be grown freely in the Garden State under a bill Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law Friday.

Only 50 full-size hemp homes exist in America, none of which are located in Colorado.