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Dallas-based Panda Biotech has unveiled plans to build the country’s largest industrial hemp processing facility in Shallowater, Texas.

Colorado businessman and author Jeffrey Friedland has been issued a $4.1 million fine for allegedly misleading investors about Israeli cannabis company OWC Pharmaceutical Research.

In an effort to highlight and help end the cannabis plant’s global stigma, Canada’s 2019 Miss Universe contestant represented the country’s legalization of cannabis during the competition’s “National Costume” segment.

The MLB may remove cannabis from its banned substances list for minor league players; major league players are already not tested for cannabis use.

Brooklyn’s DA office dropped the charges against a man who was arrested after receiving a 106-pound shipment of legal hemp; the shipment was seized and recipient arrested following a tip from FedEx, who delivered the product.

A recent study from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto has debunked a myth that cannabis can influence drivers up to 24 and even 48 hours after consumption.

A recent investigation found that just five percent of cannabis products currently available in Canada contained pesticides.

Canopy Growth has named the CFO of Constellation Brands — the major alcohol distributor who owns about 38 percent of Canopy — as its new CEO.

Police in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan say they have encountered fewer issues than they had expected during Canada’s first year of legalized cannabis.

The alternative, off-season football league XFL will not include cannabis among its drug testing protocols when the new league launches next spring.

The 16 employees at the cannabis lifestyle magazine Civilized have been laid off following the magazine’s recent acquisition by cannabis analytics company New Frontier Data.

Canadian cannabis producer Atlas Biotechnologies has awarded a $300,000 grant to University of Alberta researchers for the investigation of cannabis as a potential therapy for multiple sclerosis (MS), Alzheimer’s disease, and Huntington’s disease.

Hightimes Holding Corp. disclosed doubts about the High Times magazine’s ability to continue operations due to “recurring operating losses, net operating cash flow deficits, and an accumulated deficit.”

New Mexico’s Economic Development Department this week announced a $200,000 investment into 420 Valley LLC, a Las Cruces-based hemp productions and processing plant.

Cannabis activists in North Dakota have submitted language for a legalization ballot initiative to the secretary of state; if approved, the group will need to collect 13,452 signatures by July 6 to put the issue on the 2020 ballot.

Chris Hagedorn is the general manager for Hawthorne Gardening Company, a business venture that provides all the cultivation needs of a state-legal cannabis operator.

New Zealand citizens will get to choose next year whether or not to legalize adult-use cannabis; lawmakers there just revealed parts of their legalization plan if the vote were to pass.

Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring is joining the Virginia Cannabis Caucus next week to discuss enacting major cannabis reforms in the state.

Federal regulators have removed barriers that blocked industrial hemp companies from accessing traditional financial services despite the crop’s federally legal status.

According to polling data from the major metro areas of Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco, there are more adults 18-and-older who have used cannabis recently than smoked cigarettes.

Brazil health regulators have approved a set of rules to allow for medical cannabis use; the rules, however, would not allow for domestic cultivation and the program would rely solely on imported cannabis products.

Gov. Albert Bryan of the U.S. Virgin Islands is considering adult-use cannabis legalization as a means of reinforcing the Government Employees’ Retirement System with $20 million in annual tax revenue.

Recent surveying data suggests that investors are evenly split between whether or not they would ever invest in the cannabis space.

Minnesota health officials have approved chronic pain and a degenerative eye condition as new qualifying conditions for the state’s medical cannabis program.