Somewhere in Northern Colorado, just starting to peek out above the corn stalks that surround it, is an often misunderstood and recently approved test crop.

Colorado State University is starting to research hemp, a plant with practical uses but which is also the same species as marijuana, cannabis sativa.

CSU researchers planted 17 varieties of hemp on just less than a half acre on June 6. CSU is using the same protocols as a research project underway in Europe.

Evoxe Laboratories, the new and pioneering developer of medicinal cannabis consumption technologies, recently announced the debut of new products in California at select dispensaries along with partnerships with Sacramento’s TBD Music Festival and Irvine’s Safe in Sound Festival in September of this year. The company will rollout its products into additional major U.S. markets next year as it looks to expand its presence.

Later this week, Wisconsin will serve as host to the Milwaukee Cannabis Freedom Festival. The festival is meant to celebrate recent marijuana legalization throughout the United States and to serve as a launch pad for this summer’s petition to legalize marijuana possession in Milwaukee. 

If you followed the local news in July 2014, you would've seen the photo op: a button-cute 10-year-old girl blushing happily next to Governor Andrew Cuomo as he signed legislation that would bring medical marijuana to the Empire State. That was Amanda Houser, of Suffern, who seems every bit of a normal preteen, if not for the seizures that she endures daily from Dravet syndrome, a rare form of epilepsy. Her family hopes that medical marijuana—now legal in our state, though not available until at least early next year—will help reduce the number of seizures that Amanda must hurdle during her life of school and play and Teen Beach movies. It's been over a year since that moment in the spotlight with Cuomo, and her condition has spiraled down.

The Torrance County Commission has given a green light to a pot-growing greenhouse near Abo.

Commissioners voted 2-1 in favor of upholding Planning and Zoning Director Steve Guetschow’s interpretation of the current zoning ordinance in reference to a decision that allowed a legal medical marijuana greenhouse operation on the Loma Parda subdivision near Abo.

The negative vote came from Commissioner Julia DuCharme, who said it appeared the operation is a commercial use and the zoning states that commercial uses are not allowed except on a case-by-case basis.

BOULDER, CO, Sep. 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Surna, Inc. (OTCQB: SRNA), a technology company that engineers state-of-the art equipment for controlled environment agriculture with special expertise in cannabis cultivation, announced today that its Board of Directors has appointed Stephen Keen as its President and Chief Executive Officer.

In 2007, with his extensive cultivation expertise, Keen founded Hydro Innovations to design and develop liquid cooled technologies for hobby cultivators.  Hydro Innovations was acquired by Surna in 2014, and since then, Keen has been Surna's Vice President of Research and Development, driving Surna's industry-leading innovation engine.

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More U.S. college students are making a habit of using marijuana, which has supplanted cigarettes as the smoke-able substance of choice among undergraduates who light up regularly, a study released Tuesday found.

Just under 6 per cent of the full-time students surveyed by University of Michigan researchers for the annual "Monitoring the Future" study reported using pot either every day or at least 20 times in the previous 30 days.

By contrast, 5 per cent of respondents identified themselves as heavy cigarette smokers, a steep decline from the 19 per cent who said they smoked daily in 1999.

A constitutional amendment to allow medical marijuana in Florida has reached a key milestone in its petition drive, triggering required reviews by Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Florida Supreme Court.

The proposal has gotten 73,713 signatures, according to Florida Division of Elections data. Bondi has 30 days to review the ballot language and send it to the Supreme Court, which will determine if it's constitutional.

The amendment would allow doctors to prescribe marijuana for medical purposes and allow the state Department of Health to regulate marijuana growth and sale. In the 2014 election, it fell just short of the 60 percent required to amend the state constitution.