Sales of the weedlike substances have increased, in part thanks to a loophole in federal law, prompting smoke shops that sell unregulated products to minors to pop up.

Brandon Johnson often speaks of his concern for the ... from taking action against unregulated purveyors of potent hemp products that have sent numerous city kids to the hospital after what ...

He’s feeling left a little high and dry. Reeling from a recent defeat on hemp legislation, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker lashed out at his fellow Democrat, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson who had publicly ...

For a while now, Mayor Brandon Johnson has said he wants to engage more with the press. On Tuesday, he invited WGN into his ceremonial office at City Hall for brief conversation where he opened up ...

The debate over legislation regulating the hemp industry is revealing cracks in the Democratic Party in Illinois. Illinois ...

State lawmakers who stood in the way of recent legislation that would've regulated intoxicating hemp products have received ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Mayor Brandon Johnson took questions about hot topics ... Johnson opposed the legislation regulating hemp products, while Pritzker supported the measure, which failed to pass.

Many in the hemp industry said not everyone in the hemp space uses deceitful and dangerous practices, and that Gov. J.B.

After an 11th-hour lobbying effort by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson ... a persistent lobbying effort from the hemp industry and late intervention from Johnson urging legislators to vote "no ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson and aldermen got their 2025 city ... A plan to tax legal hemp products went nowhere. Still, Chicagoans will pay more in many ways to make city government run.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has been a vocal opponent of the hemp bill, but Pritzker doesn’t believe he was the one to kill the measure. “My impression is he didn’t have much to do ...

“Both hemp and cannabis organizations ... including more than $2 million to funds controlled by Welch. Mayor Brandon Johnson also opposed the Lightford-Pritzker legislation, citing a potential ...