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By Steve Elliott Hemp News A Texas woman says sheriff's deputies violated constitutional protections by conducting a body cavity search in the parking lot of a gas station during a routine traffic stop last June. Charnesia Corley, 21, was driving in Harris County about 10:30 p.m. on June 21 when a male deputy [...]

Katherine Grimm, breakout star of CNN’s popular docu-series "High Profits," will appear at the inaugural Southwest Cannabis Conference & Expo on October 27 and 28 at the Phoenix Convention Center. Grimm, who will attend a meet-and-greet with attendees and appear as a panelist, is the unlikely star of the CNN Original [...]

Advocates: New Yorkers Need a Public Education and Health Approach to Deal with Emerging Drugs Earlier this week, Governor Andrew Cuomo issued regulations and the New York State Senate introduced a bill that would criminalize the sales of synthetic cannabinoids. Recently, there have been several media reports of tragic episodes involving synthetic [...]

Denver Digital Marketing Agency Ranks on the 2015 Inc. 5000 with Focus on Cannabis Marketing Arm Inc. magazine has included cannabis-focused marketing agency JEMSU on its 34th annual "Inc. 5000," an exclusive ranking of the nation's fastest-growing private companies. JEMSU, a Denver-based digital advertising and marketing agency, ranked 1,187th on the [...]

By Steve Elliott Hemp News U.S. Congress members from Oregon on Monday urged state agriculture officials to speed up a pilot project allowing farmers to begin cultivating industrial hemp crops in time for next year's growing season. The federal lawmakers said in a letter that the program missed the 2015 growing season because [...]