The Hemp Industries Association has named former marijuana activist Jody McGinness as its new executive director. After a months-long search with nearly 100 qualified candidates, the national hemp association selected McGinness, a veteran association executive in the non-profit sector. McGinness last served as the head of fundraising for the Marijuana Policy Project, which advocates for […]
A county court has ruled against a group of California hemp farmers who wanted to block a local ordinance restricting where the plant can be grown. The Coalition for Agricultural Rights sued San Luis Obispo County after local government officials voted in May to require 2,000-foot setbacks for 400-acre hemp production sites. Cal Coast News […]
Activists gathered at the state capitol in Lincoln to turn in over 182,000 signatures from registered voters in an effort to qualify a medical cannabis legalization measure for the 2020 ballot.
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A Denver company that sells a line of CBD sports drinks is suing a Tennessee beverage company for copyright infringement, alleging the Nashville business is selling products with almost identical names as the Denver brand. The June 26 lawsuit from Defy LLC filed in Colorado federal court says Defiance Brands, Inc. is selling a line […]
Corporate leaders in the CBD industry are increasingly coming from the consumer packaged goods universe, lending their experience and asking the hard questions to whip the nascent hemp industry into shape and navigate the enormous growth that entrepreneurs foresee in the market. Deanie Elsner joined Charlotte’s Web as CEO last year, bringing with her more […]
U.S. hemp producers have been scraping together a supply chain of processing and retail since 2014, and the work isn’t done. But the industry needs to work together to protect the supply chain even as it’s developing, said Chad Rosen, CEO of Victory Hemp Foods in Kentucky. Talking about the hemp grain market at Hemp […]
CBD first that captured the attention of cannabis consumers, but other cannabinoids, such as CBG and CBN, may be ready to make a splash soon. That’s according to Blake Patterson, co-founder and CEO of MarketHub Retail Services, who took audience questions during at roundtable Wednesday at the Hemp Industry Daily Conference Direct. “CBD is just the […]
Members of the Ohio senate advanced a measure expanding the state’s long-standing decriminalization policies.
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A Colorado-based CBD company that sold a line of cannabidiol products at Dick’s Sporting Goods stores nationwide has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Myaderm, a company in Englewood, said in its June 28 bankruptcy filing that it owed creditors somewhere between $1 million and $10 million. The company estimated its assets at between $500,000 […]
(This is an abridged version of a column that appears in the July issue of Marijuana Business Magazine.) Reading the business-page headlines these days, hemp pioneers can be forgiven for chuckling at how large and esteemed industries have no idea how they’ll survive when faced with the kinds of challenges hemp entrepreneurs have been dealing […]
