A global giant in generic drugs manufacturing is expanding into the CBD market through a new partnership with Colorado CBD manufacturer Kazmira LLC. Perrigo Co., based in Dublin, Ireland, has invested $50 million for a 20% equity stake in Kazmira, located just east of Denver in Watkins, Colorado. The deal calls for Perrigo to pay […]
While lawmakers focus largely on police behaviors, we at NORML also wish to raise questions about police powers. Over the years, law enforcement in this country have been granted extraordinary powers — powers that often provide them with the ability to interact with citizens whenever and wherever they please. In many cases, the rationale for these ever-expanding police powers has been to enforce the so-called war on drugs.
A group of hemp growers and processors in New York is calling on the state Department of Health to release regulations so that hemp and CBD businesses can make business decisions. According to a letter from the New York Cannabis Growers and Processors Association to state health regulators, legislation regulating hemp in New York State […]
Over the years, law enforcement in this country have been granted extraordinary powers — powers that often provide them with the ability to interact with citizens whenever and wherever they please. In many cases, the rationale for these ever expanding police powers has been to enforce the so-called war on drugs.
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The first tobacco company to joing the hemp and marijuana industries has filed for bankruptcy protection. Pyxus International Inc., one of the world’s largest tobacco suppliers, was hard hit by declining tobacco consumption and coronavirus-sparked supply disruptions. The company also grows hemp in the U.S. and marijuana in Canada. Based in Morrisville, North Carolina, Pyxus […]
A meeting is scheduled for next week to discuss World Health Organization recommendations on marijuana, CBD and related substances. The recommendations include removing CBD and CBD preparations containing no more than 0.2% THC from the international drug-control conventions. The WHO’s CBD recommendation, if ultimately adopted, could lead to freer international trade in the cannabinoid. The […]
A Laotian agriculture company is taking an Australian hemp grower to arbitration after it withdrew from a joint CBD hemp project when the COVID-19 pandemic forced the closure of borders around the world. Sun Agriculture Promotion Industry and Commercial Co. filed an arbitration claim for $6.1 million with the Centre of Economic Dispute Resolution in […]
A South Carolina energy company is donating money to a group of college students working on building an eco-friendly 500-square-foot house made party of hempcrete. The donation from Duke Energy is part of grants worth a total of $240,000 to five state organizations focused on “engineering initiatives that will help grow the energy industry’s workforce […]
State agriculture officials in Michigan are seeing more interest in hemp production this year, despite more than half of growers failing to find a market for their 2019 crops and many reporting crop failures and heavy pest and weed pressure. Authorities tell Hemp Industry Daily that the state has licensed 13,225 outdoor acres and 11 million […]
Deployment of artificial intelligence-enabled technology in agricultural crops has been in the news, explaining how automated data dissection and automation can reduce labor, streamline production of food crops and help producers improve the efficiency of their operations. That same technology is now being applied to marijuana and hemp operations to optimize growers’ production and management […]
