Throughout the month of October, farmers begin to harvest their inaugural hemp yields.

(WBIR - PARROTTSVILLE) Throughout the month of October, farmers begin to harvest their inaugural hemp yields. Throughout the state, farms are seeing different results.

Charles Mason owns Happy Holler Hemp Farm in Parrottsville. His farm is the second biggest hemp farm in the state.

He had bad luck on his first crop. It was so small Mason was unable to harvest it.

"Should have held off for the upcoming year and made more plans rather than just rushing into it," said Mason.

The season started this year with great fanfare.

On a visit to strengthen economic ties, Hickenlooper goes out of his way to express solidarity for Israelis during terror wave.

Israel could be a key partner in the recreational marijuana revolution Colorado is leading and benefit from the huge revenues the industry is bringing in, said Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, who headed a visiting business delegation from his state over the past week.

“We are reaching out. You guys have some of the top resources in the world on some of these effects, and we have resource money now, so we are looking for partners,” Hickenlooper told The Jerusalem Post in Tel Aviv on Monday night, at the tail end of the delegation’s visit.

Businessman wrote on his blog that the UN office of drugs and crime was poised to embrace decriminalising personal possession and use

Richard Branson has been involved in a bruising clash with the United Nations following his claim that the organisation is poised to endorse a global policy of decriminalising drugs.

One in 11 industrial buildings in central Denver now houses marijuana cultivation, CBRE report says

Your nose isn't lying: One in 11 industrial buildings in central Denver is full of marijuana.

The state's cannabis industry occupies at least 3.7 million square feet of industrial space in Denver, clustered in areas of older warehouse stock, including the Interstate 25-Interstate 70 junction, Montbello, central Denver and along the Santa Fe Drive corridor in southwest Denver, according to commercial real estate firm CBRE.

The state has fined a Portland marijuana dispensary $2,500 for allowing a vendor to give away marijuana concentrates and pre-rolled joints in the parking lot on the opening day of recreational marijuana sales, according to a stipulated settlement order.

The order states that Cannacea, located in Northeast Portland, allowed the giveaway of marijuana products in its parking lot and failed to check the identification of people receiving the products to ensure they were 21 or older or that they were medical marijuana patients.

The document also states the products being given away lacked proper labeling and were not in child-resistant packages. 

With Halloween 2015 less than a few weeks out, government agencies across the U.S. are already putting the word out about the possibility of marijuana-infused candies being given to trick-or-treating children on the candy-fueled holiday.

The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) appeared set to call on governments to end the criminalization of drug use and possession, according to DPA Honorary Board Member Richard Branson -- but in a dramatic turn of events withdrew its briefing paper under pressure from at least one country, according to the BBC.

ST. LOUIS – Last week, the St. Louis Business Journal conducted an informal online pollasking readers if they would vote to legalize medical marijuana in Missouri. An overwhelming 85 percent of respondents said “yes,” with only 13 percent answering in the negative.

The results caught some attention, especially from people working on the issue, because the Business Journal’s readership, both in print and online, tends to skew older, wealthier and more conservative.

Marijuana is weighed at Organic Alternatives in Fort Collins on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015.(Photo: Coloradoan library)Buy Photo

Organic Alternatives will be the first marijuana shop to join a Fort Collins substance-abuse prevention nonprofit's responsible retailer program.

Team Fort Collins is expanding its Responsible Alcohol Program to include tobacco and marijuana shops. The program, which includes more than 60 alcohol retailers in Fort Collins and Loveland, will be renamed the Responsible Association of Retailers.

CLEVELAND - In two weeks, you will decide at the polls whether to legalize marijuana in Ohio.

So, do you know exactly what you'll be deciding?

Supporters say a "yes" vote means you'll be voting to control what's already here.

"Marijuana prohibition has failed," says Ian James, the Executive Director of Responsible Ohio, the group behind the legalization push.

"You can get marijuana delivered to your door faster than you can a pizza," he says, "so we need to regulate, test, and tax marijuana.

But opponents says legalization would increase use of pot among teens, and lead to more people being addicted to drugs.

And they also question the way the proposal would limit who could grow pot for legal sale in Ohio.