Graham Abbott

A new hemp facility in Murray, Kentucky demonstrates the newly legal crop’s ability to outpace and replace oak trees as a lumber source.

A new study suggests that cannabis users generally live more enjoyable sex lives, and that cannabis could lead to more and better orgasms, healthier connections with one’s partner, and increased length of sexual activity.

Washington state Ag Department officials recently clarified that hemp-derived CBD is not allowed as a food additive.

UFC star Nate Diaz lit up a CBD joint this week during a public workout ahead of his face-off against Anthony Pettis this weekend at UFC 241.

Following a rough 2018 launch, new market research shows California’s legal cannabis market is on track to reach $3.1 billion in sales by the end of 2019 and $7.4 billion by 2024.

The new marketplace allows for expanded business networking and partnership opportunities.

The Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs has scheduled a hearing to consider the SAFE Banking Act despite hints from the Republican committee chair in April that such a hearing was unlikely.

Amanda Mac is a founding partner of Bellingham Budfest, the first-ever cannabis festival in Bellingham, WA happening on July 14, 2019.

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has signed into law several cannabis policy updates, including a bill allowing the state to export cannabis products to other states with cannabis programs.

Illinois is officially the 11th state to legalize adult-use cannabis and will be the first state to regulate cannabis sales via the legislature. The new law, signed this morning, will also set up nearly 800,000 prior cannabis convictions for expungement.

New York lawmakers, after failing to adopt adult-use legalization this session, have approved legislation expanding cannabis decriminalization in the state and establishing a framework for the automatic expungement of low-level cannabis convictions.

Under a new law in Alabama, a commission of doctors, lawmakers, and other governor appointees will study the potential legalization of medical cannabis; the commission must submit its report by December 1, 2019.

Jay Burns is the founder and lab director of Treeline Analytics, a cannabis testing lab that operates in Washington’s pioneering I-502 adult-use market.

Organizers of Seattle’s Hempfest are suing the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board over the regulators’ new interpretations of advertising restrictions, which advocates say violate their first amendment right to free speech.

Researchers at the University of Washington have mapped the gene networks of cannabis that are responsible for cannabinoid and terpenoid production.

Illinois lawmakers have approved a legalization bill that, if signed into law by Gov. J.B. Pritzker — a cannabis legalization supporter — would make Illinois the 11th state to legalize cannabis.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has signed two new cannabis bills into law: one allows cannabis delivery as an option in the state, the other gives Coloradans the right to establish and visit social-use cannabis lounges.

A tax-and-regulate legalization plan has advanced from the Illinois Senate to the House of Representatives. The bill has the support of Gov. J.B. Pritzker and, if fully approved, would make Illinois the 11th state to legalize cannabis for adult use.

Under a bill signed into law last week in Colorado, doctors can now recommend medical cannabis to treat any condition for which they might have otherwise prescribed opioids.

The bill, which passed 96-3 in the House and 40-7 in the Senate, would have expanded multiple aspects of Iowa’s limited medical cannabis program.