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Caption: Fingerboard Farm owner and CEO Dawn Gordon. smelling a hemp plant on her farm. (Courtesy of Fingerboard Farm)
May 15, 2026

Fingerboard Farm runs multiple businesses to stay afloat – even a cannabis venture

Fingerboard Farm both cultivates hemp, a type of cannabis that, unlike marijuana, is nonintoxicating and operates in the agritourism business.

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Sep 10, 2025

Psychoactive hemp products have never been legal in MD, Appellate Court rules

A Maryland court ruled that delta-8 and delta-10 — hemp-derived substances similar to cannabis — have never been legal in the state.

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Jun 27, 2022

Ohio Supreme Court tells attorney the naked truth

Today is Monday, the 45th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Bates v. State Bar of Arizona decision that bans on attorney advertising are unconstitutional. Here are some other news items. […]

Erek Barron
Dec 5, 2019

AG: Marijuana prosecutions likely need special testing after hemp legalization

A change in the law that exempts hemp from the legal definition of marijuana means prosecutors should use more sophisticated lab tests to determine if suspected marijuana has the requisite concentration of […]

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Oct 4, 2019

Law affecting definition of marijuana complicates prosecutions

Changes in the law to allow for the production of hemp in Maryland may have unintentionally created a complication for marijuana prosecutions due to the altered definition of marijuana in criminal […]

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Feb 27, 2019

Farmers closer to growing industrial hemp in Md.

Salisbury University has signed research agreements with Maryland farmers to participate in an industrial hemp pilot program under the state Department of Agriculture, the university announced Tuesday. The university believes […]