Marijuana is US's biggest cash crop
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$35.8bn pot bonanza A report into illicit marijuana cultivation in the US says it is now the country's biggest cash crop, having seen a tenfold increase in production over the last 25 years.â¦
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BALKH, Afghanistan  - As Afghanistan struggles to cut its raging opium production, aid workers try to find alternative crops, but for some former poppy farmers the choice was easy -- they planted marijuana instead.
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Bumper cannabis crops -- and tighter border controls -- are creating a looming internal drug problem for the country
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Time was when marijuana use prompted easy political stereotypes - liberals for, conservatives against. Not anymore. Conservatives of different stripes are likely to have warring views on the case the Supreme
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British and French pharmaceutical  companies are racing ahead of their U.S. counterparts to  develop new drugs containing marijuana to relieve pain and  treat a wide range of illnesses because marijuana is illegal in  the United States, scientific researchers said on Wednesday.
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Wheat is steadily being replaced by corn as the crop of choice for American farmers.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. _ Americans love their lawns _ and there's a lot to love. Grass takes up about 30 million acres of the United States _ an area the size of New England- making it our No. 1 irrigated crop.  But few plants are as exalted and at the same time cursed as grass.
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U.S. News & World Report - Investors putting money into the chemical industry today should know that they are, in effect, placing a bet on who has the best strategy for riding the bumpy energy landscape ahead. It&#39;s a sector in transition, since its long-favored feedstock for making a wide array of chemicals--from ammonia to plant fertilizer to adhesives--is natural gas.
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Federal agents trailed Sparky Rose as he drove a Porsche Carrera convertible to his medical marijuana clinic. Under California law, clinics are supposed to dispense marijuana just to seriously ill people and clinic owners are to get only "reasonable compensation." But to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the sports car suggested that Rose might be pocketing big money from his purportedly nonprofit clinic, New Remedies Cooperative.
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Vending machines distributing marijuana are to begin operating in California.
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Many doctors recognize marijuana&#39;s medicinal role in helping seriously ill people cope with pain. So do 11 states, including Colorado, where voters have approved the medical use of the drug.
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The penalty for smoking pot in Alabama is up to 99 years in prison. But that hasn&#39;t stopped the Cotton State - along with Mississippi and Georgia â-rom siding with California in its battle to keep medical marijuana legal.
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The federal government has reintroduced a bill to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana. It means persons caught with 15 grams of marijuana or less will face a fine rather than a criminal charge.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Seizures of Canadian-made marijuana by U.S. authorities have increased 259 per cent since 2001 but still constitute only about two per cent of all such seizures at U.S. borders, says a joint assessment.
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A report on law enforcement violations of the rights of medical marijuana patients in California was released Monday, August 16. The three-month study found local and state law enforcement is routinely seizing the marijuana to which California patients ...
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The Spitzer administration has proposed a $3.50-a-gram tax on marijuana and a $200-a-gram tax on other illegal drugs like cocaine. Some experts are skeptical.
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This year&#39;s cotton crop is on pace to be the largest in US history, although hurricanes that have battered the nation in the past few months may reduce the final amount.