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The failure of a little-noticed bill to regulate hemp has much bigger implications as a new Legislature is sworn in.

There was a raucous meeting of the Democratic House caucus, in which there was a lot of yelling at staff by people who were ...

But the bill also created rifts within the House Democratic caucus. According to several sources, the hemp regulation bill was the focus of a three-hour closed-door caucus meeting Monday that some ...