With pot consumption now legal in half of all states for either medical or recreational purposes, the long-dormant business of hemp production may well be poised for a renaissance.

Farmers throughout the Ohio Valley want to revive a crop that was once a staple in the region: hemp.

Farmers throughout the Ohio Valley want to revive a crop that was once a staple in the region: hemp.

Wild marijuana grows in yards, gardens, and weedy industrial sites across the Twin Cities.

About an hour and half north of the metro, the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska sits on 300 square miles of reservation land stretching into Iowa's Monona County.

"We need jobs," Daniel Webster said, who lives on the reservation.

Farmers have started planting Vermont’s third hemp crop. Though their numbers are few, the acreage devoted to hemp has significantly increased this year, as has the direction of the state’s fledgling hemp industry.