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Why Mitch McConnell killed the hemp buzz

Russell Payne
A view of the cannabis plant grown for medicinal, pharmaceutical or health purposes in La Ceja, Antioquia, Colombia on July 18, 2023. (Juancho Torres/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Does cannabis harm the environment?

Matthew Rozsa
A plant of the industrial hemp variety Futura 75 stands in the Hemp Museum in Berlin. (Fabian Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images)

The hemp industry is at risk

Rod Kight
Cow | Hemp pattern (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Cows get high from hemp

Troy Farah
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Mike Lewis and Shelby Floyd in a hemp field in Kentucky. (Photo credit: ) (Anna Carson Dewitt Photography, courtesy of Third Wave Farms)

How hemp is a "gateway crop" for farmers

Nadra Nittle - Civil Eats
In this June 23, 2016, photo, farmer Will Cabaniss stands with his crop on his 20-acre hemp farm in Pueblo, Colo. Three years into the nation's hemp experiment, the crop's hazy market potential is starting to come into focus. Most of it is being pressed for therapeutic oils, not processed into rope or fabric or more traditional products. Authorized for research and experimental growth in the 2014 Farm Bill, hemp is being grown this year on about 6,900 acres nationwide, according to industry tallies based on state reports. (AP Photo/Kristen Wyatt) (AP)

Legal hemp muddles marijuana prosecution

Phillip Smith - Independent Media Institute
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Cannabis cuts into spirits spending

Ashlie D. Stevens
"American Hemp" by Jen Hobbs (Simon & Schuster/Getty/johnwoodcock)

Hemp is our "Green New Deal"

Jen Hobbs
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FILE - This March 25, 2014, file photo, shows a CVS store in Philadelphia. Target announced Monday, June 15, 2015, that it is selling its pharmacy and clinic businesses to drugstore chain CVS Health for about $1.9 billion in a deal that combines the resources of two retailers seeking to polish their reputations as health care providers. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) (AP)

CVS now sells CBS-infused products

Alex Henderson - Alternet
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The race to re-learn hemp farming

Leslie Nemo - Undark
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The USDA's history of discrimination

Jillian Hishaw - Civil Eats
Jesse Ventura (Skyhorse Publishing/Getty/Salon)

Love freedom? Love weed!

Jesse Ventura
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Larry Schwartz
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America's fired up about hemp

Lindsay Abrams
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Dem sees legal pot on horizon

Elias Isquith
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Kristen Gwynne
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