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The source of a healthy cannabis plant is a healthy root system. Roots provide a network for collecting and transferring water, oxygen, and nutrients to your growing plants.

Consumers who traveled to the first retail marijuana stores east of the Mississippi spent $440,011 on opening day, according to the Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission.

Building your own climate-controlled indoor grow can be easy, convenient, and inexpensive all at the same time.

The use of medical marijuana is growing in Illinois thanks in part to recent changes in legislation that allows cannabis to be used as an alternative to opioid pain medication.

The lone medical marijuana manufacturing facility currently up and running in the state aims to have marijuana products available in December or January.

College business programs are well positioned to prepare students for careers in cannabis but are hampered because marijuana remains federally illegal.

Of those 80,000 patients, the state has approved nearly 51,000 to receive medical marijuana through dispensaries. 

As Canada makes history with its nationwide legalization of cannabis, some observers in the United States are watching with a sense of cautious optimism; in the hopes that their northern neighbor’s actions might end up having a positive impact on America’s cannabis legalization movement.

While Hawaii has long been known for its coffee and macadamia nut industries, the islands are now cultivating a reputation for hemp with the help of a former Bay Area resident.

As the harvest nears a close, 2018 is turning out to be a pivotal year for industrial hemp in Vermont.

Wisconsin farmers interested in growing hemp got to learn how to on Thursday.

Just like wine, millions of pounds of buds have ripened in the fall fields. Farmers were up at dawn today cutting, drying, curing and trimming for the market.

"The stereotype is that all weed is going to make you happy and hungry. But there's a whole world of weed, all types out there."

For the uninitiated the ins and outs of how to purchase and use marijuana can be daunting. Here, we provide a consumer’s guide to the basics.

On Sunday, Wisconsin State Senator, Patrick Testin, took a tour of the first legal Hemp harvest since the 1950's. Industrial Hemp Farming, was originally banned from the state of Wisconsin because of how closely it resembles Marijuana.

Women can and should use cannabis for a variety of everyday ailments, Goldberg writes, but they just don’t know about it.

Kansas took its first step this past week in joining 40 other states in the U.S. that are growing industrial hemp, according to a spokesperson for the Kansas Department of Agriculture.

A new company plans to open a manufacturing facility next June that would make hemp products - building materials, carpet and insulation, disposable straws and utensils, clothing and even CBD oil.

"This is a growing industry and we want to prepare our students from a variety of academic viewpoints."

It's in Kentucky — once called the “Hemp Capital of the World” — where farmers are seeing hemp outperform other long-standing crops like tobacco.