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Tuesday marked a milestone for proponents of growing industrial hemp in Kansas.

Hemp could be in play as a new crop option for farmers in Illinois if a bill expanding its production passes the General Assembly.

While tightly controlled, Wisconsin farmers will soon be allowed to explore a cash crop in which Wisconsin led the nation in production decades ago.

An industrial hemp pilot program has unanimously passed through the Oklahoma House.

A California company has announced it will break ground next week on a planned $30 million hemp processing plant in Carlisle County, potentially creating 100 jobs.

Attorneys for a hemp industry trade association and hemp businesses argue that the DEA conflated the terms “marijuana” and “cannabis,” ultimately creating a rule that can be interpreted as scheduling cannabis and cannabinoids as illegal substances.

Marijuana legalization has taken the country by storm and opened up a new world for entrepreneurs. With sales projecting in the billions in the next few years, there are endless opportunities to both get rich and help improve the lives of millions of people.

From goat yoga to laughing yoga, there seems to be a type of yoga for everyone's tastes. Now, some yogis are adding pot to their practice.

"Would you rather make a dollar an acre or $50,000 an acre? Any place that corn will grow, hemp will prosper.”

As restaurants wrestle with regulations and how to reach the cannabis crowd, chefs experiment with infusions and edibles.

The world’s most expensive gram of cannabis can be yours for $32.66 on the illicit market in Tokyo.

Former supermodel Kathy Ireland, who created a multibillion-dollar lifestyle empire after soaring to fame in Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit editions in the 1980s, is dipping a professional toe into new waters: hemp-based products for the masses.

“The market (for hemp) is basically every human and every animal on the planet,” said Matt Cyrus, president of the Deschutes County Farm Bureau.

Marijuana culture has a language all its own.

The new year is bringing a green opportunity for local cannabis dispensaries.

A Canadian company plans to launch a large, industrial hemp operation in northern Maine this year in the latest sign of burgeoning interest in the versatile yet tightly regulated crop.

Kings Royal announced just a few months ago that it had selected Kentucky for the location of this plant because of Kentucky’s great potential for growing hemp.

Around 100 farmers interested in growing hemp as a cash crop gathered last Wednesday in Barron County. Some say they're considering planting test plots as early as next year, just months after lawmakers lifted a ban on the crop.

America has been slow to embrace hemp’s revolutionary, space-age applications—not to mention the billions of dollars that hemp production and processing could bring the nation.