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The USDA's proposed hemp rules would toss aside a testing policy that advocates hoped would finally make Washington a top hemp-producing state.

The USDA says the testing protocol it recently outlined would best measure the level of the intoxicating chemical THC in harvested hemp plants. The procedures, however, differ from ones Washington planned to implement next year to keep hemp from testing "hot."

Image Source: Cannabis tourist Dan Chlebanowski smells marijuana for sale at a dispensary in Los Angeles on Jan. 24, 2019. (Credit: Robyn Beck / AFP / Getty Images)

California has suspended 394 marijuana business permits in a move that critics say will temporarily reduce the number of legal cannabis shops in the state.

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Racing to try to get on the November 2020 ballot, a political committee backing a proposed constitutional amendment to legalize recreational marijuana had submitted more than 57,000 petition signatures to the state Division of Elections as of Wednesday, records show.

Medicinal cannabis will be given to 20,000 British patients in first major trial of drug's impact - a year after it was made legal on the NHS

• Project, named Twenty21, was launched yesterday and will run until end of 2021
• To test impact on chronic pain, MS, epilepsy, PTSD, Tourette's, anxiety, addiction
• Medical marijuana been legal since last November but impossible to get on NHS 

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The cannabis industry has been growing significantly in recent years as legalization has progressed in many states, with 11 having passed legislation for recreational use and more states likely following suit. In addition, the farm bill was passed nearly a year ago which allowed cannabidiol (CBD) to be permitted federally so long as it was derived from hemp.

This is the first year Tom has not felt the need to booby-trap his backyard.

An inveterate pot grower, the North York man says new laws allowing Canadians to raise up to four of the plants per household set his mind at ease for the first time in more than half a century of cannabis cultivation.

The newly formed Hemp Federation of America is planning its first fly-in to Washington next week, just as Reuters reported that the farmers are having a hard time finding a market for this year’s crop.

The group of growers, processors and allied businesses will arrive in Washington on Thursday, Nov. 14, a spokesman said.

Will Wheeler, an Oklahoma rancher and farmer who is serving as HFA’s board chairman, said in a news release that an industry with a domestic market of an estimated $800 million to $2 billion annually needs a trade association in Washington.

State officials announced Wednesday that three more medical marijuana dispensaries — two of which are in Chicago — will be allowed to sell recreation weed in Illinois when sales begin next year.

Dispensary 33, 5001 N. Clark St. in Ravenswood, and Maribis of Chicago, 4570 S. Archer Ave. in Brighton Park, will be permitted to sell adult-use marijuana starting Jan. 1, 2020, the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation said in a statement.

Thailand made headlines all over the world last December when it became the first country in Southeast Asia to legalize cannabis for medical use and research purposes, sparking a race to cash in on what could someday become the country's main cash crop.

Full legalization was a core policy of the Bhumjaithai party's campaign in the March 24 election, which helped it win the fifth most seats in Thailand's new parliament.

Ontario will allow private cannabis retailers to sell their products online or by phone for in-store pickup, in a significant move that chips away at the Ontario Cannabis Store’s monopoly on online cannabis sales. 

The province’s fall economic statement is proposing amendments to the current legislation around cannabis retail in order to “ensure consumers’ preferred cannabis products are available” and “wait times reduced” at the 25 retail stores that currently operate across the province.