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AUSTIN -- Medical marijuana dispensaries are moving ahead quickly to begin operations in Texas, with at least three companies now expecting to be open by early 2018.

Could the US ever legalize cannabis federally? The simple answer is yes, but the reality is far more complex.

While lawmakers in Montpelier argue over marijuana legalization, Middlebury dairy farmers Joel Pomainville and Sam Berthiaume are readying a harvest of a cousin of marijuana — hemp — that promoters hope could be a new cash crop for Vermont farmers.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK - In states where use of marijuana for recreational or medicinal purposes is legal, some consumers prefer eating their marijuana as opposed to smoking or vaporizing the drug.

WINDSOR TWP. -- Plans are underway to build a 130-acre medical marijuana industrial park in the township that its investors say will be the largest of its kind east of the Mississippi.

TRENTON -- Voters in this year's New Jersey governor's race are not just picking Chris Christie's successor. Their choice will dictate whether or not marijuana for recreational use will be legalized in New Jersey.

The U.S. Hemp Roundtable, an alliance of national trade groups and businesses, seeks to hammer home message that industrial hemp should be an agricultural commodity, not a controlled substance.

Two of these states haven't even legalized medical cannabis.

Experts say the region’s legal cannabis sector could face a long and costly recovery following a series of catastrophic wildfires that are still raging.

An entrepreneur at the forefront of establishing hemp in Washington state says that he has harvested his first crop but doesn’t know what he’ll do with it, underlining the unpredictable future for sober cannabis in the state.

With less than six months to go, at least one proposal to legalize medicinal use of marijuana in Missouri appears to be in a strong position to get on statewide ballots next year.

The Oregon Democrat also called on Congress to end its “stranglehold” on research by passing the Medical Marijuana Research Act.

Minnesota banned hemp production when it was swept up with marijuana in the federal drug ban six decades ago. But the passage of a federal farm bill and state legislation paved the way for growth.

A federal lawsuit claims the ban on bringing medical marijuana across state lines violates an epileptic girl's constitutional rights.

ATLANTA - Mayor Kasim Reed announced Wednesday morning that he signed the city council ordinance decriminalizing marijuana.

Canada’s largest licensed cannabis producer is about to get even bigger. 

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A legislative committee is set to consider a bill that would allow farmers to grow industrial hemp in Wisconsin.

Cannabis farmers lament “campfire pot”, “beef jerky,” and “hickory kush.”