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Report: Over 27 Million Pounds Of U.S. Legal Marijuana Industry Will Be Cultivated By 2030

U.S. medical and adult-use cannabis markets have been growing in recent years as new states are increasingly regulating the sale of legal products for medical and recreational use. In such a scenario, cannabis cultivation plays an important key role in…

New York’s 1st legal marijuana crop sprouts under the sun

New York's recreational marijuana market is beginning to sprout, literally, with thin-leafed plants stretching toward the sun in farms around the state. In a novel move, New York gave 203 hemp growers first shot at cultivating marijuana destined for legal sales, which…

Thailand legalizes marijuana — with gray areas and caveats

Thailand on Thursday made legal the growth and trade of marijuana within set parameters — becoming the first country in Southeast Asia to do so. Thai Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul told CNN that he hopes the move will help boost the country’s…

France Enters The Medical Cannabis Industry

France tiptoes into the medical cannabis industry, but legalization needs to be implemented. The French government issued a decree last month that authorizes the cultivation of medical cannabis and the development of its industry. Although the decree entered into force on March…

Gov. Hochul signs bill to fast-track marijuana growing in New York

February 22, 2022
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Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a conditional cannabis cultivation bill Tuesday that will allow some New York hemp farmers to grow cannabis beginning this spring. According to the governor’s office, the conditional licenses will fast-track the state’s adult-use cannabis program while…

New York cannabis farmers: Let us plant legal marijuana now

It’s almost planting season in Upstate New York, and farmers are ready to spring into action. But for the farmers hoping to jump into the recently legalized business of growing marijuana for recreational use, there’s a problem. The state may…

Colorado cold snap destroys millions of dollars worth of marijuana plants, could disrupt industry

September 11, 2020
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Early cold temperatures and snow in Colorado may have destroyed millions of dollars worth of outdoor plants, cannabis and hemp companies said. The drop of about 70 degrees Fahrenheit occurred too early in the growing season for farmers to harvest…

Frustrated with shortages, medical marijuana patients begin growing their own at home in Illinois

February 28, 2020
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Worried by widespread shortages of products at Illinois cannabis stores, medical marijuana patient David Kurfman took matters into his own hands. He started growing his own. Having suffered from epilepsy most of his life, Kurfman uses medical cannabis to control…

Dutch Cities Try a ‘Weed Test’ to Fix a Quirk of Legal Cannabis

September 11, 2019
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The Netherlands’ permissive approach to cannabis may be well-known, but the country’s coffeeshops (as cannabis cafés are called) have long grappled with a head-scratching contradiction. While the coffeshops’ trade is perfectly legal, that’s not the case for growing and producing…

US growing largest crop of marijuana for research in 5 years

The U.S. government is growing the largest crop of research marijuana in five years, responding to interest in varieties with high levels of THC and CBD. The government is the only source of pot for nearly all research in the…

Utah is allowing only 10 cannabis farms. Will that be enough to supply the state’s new medical marijuana program?

April 28, 2019
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If the cannabis industry perfectly complied with Utah’s expectations, it would grow 84,292.98 plants annually. These perfectly obedient plants would offer 10.4 million grams of THC (marijuana’s psychoactive compound), enough to supply exactly 100,000 patients with 2 grams of cannabinoids…

1st Massachusetts farmers moving toward approval to grow marijuana outdoors

So far, all the marijuana sold in Massachusetts’ legal market has been grown indoors. But that could change. The Cannabis Control Commission on Thursday approved the first two provisional licenses for companies that plan to grow marijuana outdoors in the…

LSU and its medical marijuana partner approved to start full production

GB Sciences Louisiana, the company hired to grow medical marijuana for the LSU AgCenter, passed its background checks and now has approval to move into its main facility and start full production effective immediately, state regulators said Friday (March 22). The…

First bill emerges this year to legalize marijuana in Illinois — would allow up to 24 plants at home

February 9, 2019
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A Democratic state lawmaker has filed a bill to legalize recreational marijuana in Illinois that likely goes further than other legislators prefer, but it has officially started the debate over complex legislation that will need to serve many interests. The bill,…

Marijuana supply far outweighs demand in Oregon’s legal market, new study says

February 4, 2019
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Oregon’s regulated cannabis industry is so overstocked with product that it could meet consumer demand for the next six and a half years, according to the state’s analysis of the market. That was one of the conclusions in the Oregon…