Legal Hemp or Illegal Weed? Police Are Having Trouble Telling the Difference

U.S. Companies Ready to Cash In on Legal Weed
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Portland, Ore. (AP) -- Federal legalization of hemp arrived in the U.S. late last year and expanded an industry already booming because of the skyrocketing popularity of CBDs, a compound in hemp that many see as a health aid.

But now, just a few months after Congress placed the marijuana look-alike squarely in safe legal territory, the hemp industry has been unsettled by an unexpected development.