Topic: marijuana industry

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

Cannabis cultivation: patchwork policies

Nate Seltenrich - FairWarning
FILE - In this Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016 file photo, judges rate marijuana plants at the Oregon Cannabis Grower's Fair marijuana plant competition in Salem, Ore. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus, File) (AP)

Legal marijuana is a job machine

Phillip Smith - Independent Media Institute
A man grows marijuana plants at a farm. (Getty/Raul Arboleda)

Marijuana with a mission

Phillip Smith - Independent Media Institute
(Getty/Kevork Djansezian)

Marijuana employees still face hurdles

John Hudak - The Fresh Toast
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MPP appraises Canadian pot legalization

Steven Hawkins - The Fresh Toast
(AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

Patented pot

Craig Nard - The Conversation
(AP Photo/Scott Sonner)

states want your high

Samantha Cole - The Fresh Toast
(Reuters/Mark Blinch)

Meet the weed capitalists

Phillip Smith - Alternet
(Reuters/Steve Dipaola)

Marijuana is so white

Joe Dolce - The Fresh Toast
April Pride poses in the well-curated passageway of the downtown building where Van der Pop is located in Seattle. (Kristen Angelo/Narratively)

cannabis people want

Britta Lokting - Narratively
Gannon Castner, right, helps a customer at the Harvest Medical Marijuana Dispensary in San Francisco, Wednesday, April 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Haven Daley)

Green jobs

Mike Adams - The Fresh Toast
FILE--In this Sept. 27, 2016 file photo, different strains of marijuana are displayed in West Salem Cannabis, a marijuana shop in Salem, Ore. (P Photo/Andrew Selsky, fileAP)

Don Goldberg - The Fresh Toast
Jeff Sessions (Getty/Win McNamee)

What to expect from Sessions

Heather Digby Parton
In this June 23, 2016 photo, pharmacist Rossana Rilla works at her own drugstore in downtown Montevideo, Uruguay. In her 28 years as a pharmacist, she has been beaten, dragged across the floor and threatened by thieves at gunpoint and with a grenade. She fears that selling marijuana will only make her store a bigger target for thieves and burglaries by drug dealers. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico) (AP)

Steven Kinsey, Divya Ramesh - The Conversation
(AP/Ed Andrieski)

Matthew Rozsa
(AP/Ed Andrieski)

Capitalizing on marijuana

Janet Burns - Alternet
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Lindsay Abrams
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Lindsay Abrams
(AP/Brennan Linsley)

"Absurd on every single level"

David Dayen
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David Downs - Smell The Truth