Some officials in the state worry that legalizing hemp, used for fiber and nutritional products, is a “backway to produce the drug, marijuana.”

Receipts from April through June total $74 million as legal industry expands.

Under a revised plan being written by Republican Senate Majority Leader Evan Vickers, medical cannabis would instead be distributed through as many as 12 private dispensaries.

Law enforcement wants smokable hemp banned because it looks and smells the same— making it otherwise impossible to differentiate during police stops.

More than 5,000 patients are now being served by the state’s nine dispensaries.

High-caryophyllene shipment: Customs officials found more than 7,500 pounds of brickweed hidden in a cargo of red hot peppers.

A California man who escaped from jail has been convicted of kidnapping and torturing a dispensary owner who he mistakenly believed had buried money in the desert.

Consumers are spending roughly $3 in the state’s underground cannabis economy for every $1 in the legal one, says a new report from industry analysts.

In a city where 17,000 people typically get arrested every year for cannabis, sealing 360 cases seems like a small first step.

France’s brief experiment with CBD—not to mention the growing international trend toward reform—seems to have started a movement to legalize cannabis, which has been illegal since 1970.