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Thanks to the new laws in Michigan and Illinois, the Midwest is no longer a recreational marijuana desert. But what does that mean for the region?

Recreational marijuana use will be legal in Illinois in less than a week, and some companies with zero tolerance policies are deciding how to handle employees who want to light up. 

“I think Ohio is missing the boat,” the Cincinnati man said. “They could literally make a lot of money from (recreational) marijuana.”

While the lines are shorter and the sales slightly less, Michigan’s recreational marijuana business remained brisk through its second week of existence.

Since Maine first started accepting Massachusetts medical marijuana cards in late August, stores near the border have seen an influx in customers.

Chronic pain, macular degeneration now on list of approved conditions.

The governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) is calling the legislature into special session this month to consider adult-use marijuana legalization.

Soldiers not only used locally-grown cannabis to cope with the stresses of war while in country; they also brought seeds home to North America, where they would become the progenitors of some of today’s most popular strains.

CBD has dominated the cannabis wellness market so far -- but THCV could be the next contender.

Is there “pink-washing” in marijuana, where male-owned businesses use women as cover on an application? Probably. But nevertheless, women persist.

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.

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.