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The hemp industry has been waiting for months for Congress to take action on a new Farm Bill, one that could make legal barriers for hemp production disappear. Now that Democrats have won control of the House of Representatives, hemp entrepreneurs...

This article is sponsored by Capna Systems. Capna Systems is an industry-leading extraction equipment manufacturer and research facility based in southern California whose mission is to research and develop safe, innovative ethanol extraction technologies for the cannabis industry. Awareness around...

Michigan voters approved a measure to fully legalize marijuana Election Day Nov. 6, 2018,, making it the first state in the Midwest to allow retail cannabis sales for adults 21 and older. As of 2:30 p.m. Central time Nov. 7,...

by NORMLNovember 7, 2018 Voters on election day decided in favor of several gubernatorial candidates who campaigned on promises to either address or enact statewide marijuana law reforms as Governor.NORML Deputy Director Paul Armentano said: “In four states — Connecticut,...

Colorado voters on Tuesday made it easier to change the definition of industrial hemp. State residents approved a constitutional amendment, Amendment X, to allow state lawmakers to change the THC limits for cannabis that can be considered hemp and not...

As polls continue to show that a growing majority of voters support legalizing marijuana, more and more politicians are beginning to embrace the issue, and the Nov. 6, 2018 elections provide the latest datapoint in the ongoing evolution of...

Stock prices in several cannabis companies were up significantly Tuesday morning as voters headed to the polls with legal marijuana on the ballot in four states. The legalization of recreational marijuana is being decided in Michigan and North Dakota, and voters...

The following compendium of landmark cannabis studies is exclusively focused on top-level research that either fundamentally advanced our understanding of the plant’s therapeutic properties, or thoroughly debunked some pernicious piece of official misinformation—such as “smoking weed gives you lung...

There was a theme to the happenings this week: mea culpa. Mea culpa is a Latin phrase that roughly translates to “my bad.” It’s an acknowledgement of one’s error. And in the week ending Nov. 3, 2018, I noticed veiled...

Sales are underway for the first CBD drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.The drug, Epidiolex, treats two rare types of epilepsy and is made from marijuana plants grown in the U.K. The maker of the medication, GW...