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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Bumper cannabis crops -- and tighter border controls -- are creating a looming internal drug problem for the country
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American ginseng, sister of the Asian wonder herb and a seasonal cash crop in Appalachia, has two obstacles to long-term survival in the United States: Man and deer.
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Marijuana use in Canada doubled over the last decade, according to the newly released Canadian Addiction Survey. It found that 14 percent of respondents used marijuana in the last year, compared to 7.4 percent in 1994, the Canadian Press reported.
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Farmers are part of a national movement to legalize growing a plant that is closely associated with marijuana.
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By Paula Schleis, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Feb. 13--Hydroponics might still be a tiny niche in the United States, where there is ample land for more traditional methods of growing tomatoes, corn and soybeans.
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The United States is the richest nation on Earth, the world&#39;s biggest beneficiary of the global economy. But will it last? Not that long ago, the ``global economy&#39;&#39; meant that routine factory jobs were going overseas.
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Wheat is steadily being replaced by corn as the crop of choice for American farmers.
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LOS ANGELES  - Showtime is high on  "Weeds."
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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.
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Coffee shops licensed to sell marijuana in the southern Dutch city of Maastricht will begin fingerprinting customers and scanning their IDs this summer to help prove they're following rules governing such sales.
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Afghan farmers earned about $1 billion from opium production in 2007, by far the country's largest cash crop, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday.
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By Daily Press, Victorville, Calif.  Jun. 27--OAK HILLS -- A man was arrested for marijuana cultivation after officials found a sophisticated marijuana grow with more than 1,100 marijuana plants, officials said.
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Bob Fuchigami was 12 years old when he and his family were told to leave their 20-acre farm in northern California. The peach trees that his immigrant parents had planted were about to yield their first big crop.
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Research suggests marijuana constricts the blood vessels, affecting supplies to the brain.
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MEXICO CITY, Sept. 19 -- Mexican drug cartels now operate in almost every region of the United States and bring in as much as $23 billion a year in revenue, according to a Government Accountability Office report that will be released Thursday.
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If you live in Santa Cruz, California, and need marijuana for medical use, the local authorities will allow you to possess up to 3 pounds&#39; worth.