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FILE – Josephine County Sheriff Dave Daniel stands amid the debris of plastic hoop houses destroyed by law enforcement, used to grow cannabis illegally, near Selma, Ore., on June 16, 2021. Over 100 workers, most or all of them immigrants, were found at the site. Thousands of immigrants have been working on illegal marijuana farms purportedly run by foreign cartels in southern Oregon, living in squalid conditions and sometimes being cheated by their employers. (Shaun Hall/Grants Pass Daily Courier via AP, File)

November 4, 2021 at 2:00 pm

Migrant Oregon weed workers face threats amid illegal boom

Thousands of immigrants working on illegal marijuana farms in southern Oregon that authorities say are run by foreign cartels are living in squalid conditions and...

FILE â€” In this April 14, 2016, file photo, investigators load marijuana plants onto a Colorado National Guard truck outside a suspected illegal grow operation in north Denver. A county in southern Oregon says it is so overwhelmed by an increase in the number and size of illegal marijuana farms that it declared a state of emergency Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021, appealing to the governor and the Legislature’s leaders for help. (AP Photo/P. Solomon Banda, File) RPPB102 RPPB102

October 13, 2021 at 4:39 pm

Overwhelmed by illegal pot, Oregon county declares emergency

A southern Oregon county says it is so overwhelmed by illegal marijuana farms draining creeks, siphoning groundwater and threatening public health that it has declared...

FILE — Marijuana plants at a grow room in Santa Rosa, Calif., Oct. 19, 2018. Millions of investment dollars are pouring into companies trying to put marijuana byproducts into food and drink. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)

September 13, 2021 at 5:44 am

College students reported record-high marijuana use and record-low drinking in 2020, study says

The study, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, does not address the causes, but scientists speculate that boredom, isolation and stress could have...

FILE – In this March 28, 2019, file photo, pot products line a display case at a marijuana shop in Seattle. A proposed constitutional amendment that would prevent the legalization of marijuana in Idaho has moved forward as lawmakers in the conservative state try to halt the increasing acceptance of the drug nationwide. The Senate State Affairs Committee voted Wednesday,Jan. 27, 2021, to approve a joint resolution that bans all psychoactive drugs not already legal in Idaho. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File) FX501 FX501

January 29, 2021 at 12:01 pm

Idaho advancing state constitutional ban on all marijuana

Idaho lawmakers on Friday moved forward with a proposed state constitutional amendment that would bar the legalization of marijuana in an attempt to keep the...

Montana Advanced Caregivers owner Richard Abromeit holds up a jar containing almost pure THC that has been extracted from marijuana at the Billings, Mont., medical marijuana dispensary on Nov. 11, 2020. He credits passage of a recreational marijuana initiative to a years-long campaign to educate the public about the benefits of cannabis. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) FX505 FX505

November 16, 2020 at 12:00 am

Americans across party lines, regions embrace marijuana VIEW

Marijuana is allowed for medical purposes in three dozen states and is broadly legal in 15. Legalization measures passe in 2020 in progressive New Jersey,...

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The Obama administration isn’t going to reclassify marijuana and remove it from the list of the most dangerous drugs.

November 3, 2020 at 2:35 am

Booze, weed, gambling, porn, candy, sloth: Will our pandemic-acquired vices hang around after COVID-19 wanes?

So will the changes the coronavirus has wrought continue if and when the world finally pulls itself out of the COVID muck? Will post-vaccine life...

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FILE – In this April 24, 2018, file photo, a hemp plant is pollinated at the Unique Botanicals facility in Springfield, Ore. The Idaho State Police may get funds to purchase equipment that would allow investigators to distinguish hemp from marijuana. Hemp, a cousin of marijuana, has a very low concentration of the psychoactive substance called THC that gives marijuana its high-inducing properties. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File) LA204

February 2, 2020 at 6:01 am

Cannabis farm near Anacortes was center of alleged $4.85 million Ponzi scheme

A Duvall resident is accused of using Green Acre Pharms in an elaborate Ponzi scheme that took in $4.85 million from at least two dozen...

January 13, 2020 at 3:16 am

Pot politics: Some Northeast states regroup on legalization

NEW YORK (AP) — A year ago, marijuana legalization looked like it was on a roll in the Northeast — it had already passed in...

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Medicated High Chew edibles are shown on display and offered for sale at the cannabis-themed Kushstock Festival at Adelanto, Calif. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

December 27, 2019 at 8:01 am

Washington state regulators relax packaging requirements for cannabis-infused edibles

The new rules prohibit marijuana products featuring “a name, design or brand” that is similar to something you’d see in a candy or toy shop....

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FILE – In this Friday, Oct. 4, 2019 file photo, a man using an electronic cigarette exhales in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. A judge has cleared the way for Montana to temporarily ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes and other flavored vaping products. State officials say they plan to implement the ban Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak,File) LA305 LA305

December 20, 2019 at 10:49 am

CDC blames 'vast majority' of vaping illnesses on vitamin E acetate

Health officials now blame vitamin E acetate for the “vast majority” of cases in the U.S. outbreak of vaping illnesses and they say doctors should...

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