(This is the 11th installment in an ongoing series offering tips and advice for marijuana and hemp extraction companies. The 10th installment is available here.) A process commonly used in food and wine production – color remediation – is becoming increasingly popular in hemp and marijuana extraction. Manufacturers are looking to remove impurities, produce translucent […]
A new study by Cornell University researchers has found no evidence that environmental stress causes THC concentrations or ratios of CBD to THC concentrations to increase. Graduate student Jacob Toth created a series of research plots in Geneva, New York, including control plots and five stress treatments applied to three genetically unrelated, high-CBD hemp cultivars. […]
(This is the 13th installment in a series focused on cultivation planning for marijuana and hemp growers. The previous installment is available here.) Both indoor and outdoor hemp and marijuana growers can give themselves a leg up by thinking ahead when it comes to arguably the most crucial step in the entire cultivation process: harvest. Cultivators aiming […]
Earlier this month, Senate democrats introduced groundbreaking legislation that would federally legalize marijuana. The Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act (CAOA) was co signed by Sen. Corey Booker, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden. Many questions revolving the bill are centered around how the bill will implement banking into the […]
I can’t remember which documentary I watched in high school, maybe it was Food Inc., but I’ve been taught to demonize the Koch Brothers. They seemed to represent everything greedy and corrupt in American capitalism. So, I can’t help but take it with a few grains of salt when I see Charles Koch putting down […]
A California organic produce grower and shipper is introducing hemp baby greens to the produce supply chain. Field Fresh Farms, a fourth-generation farming, cooling and shipping operation with farms in Watsonville, California, and Yuma, Arizona, is among the first companies to go ahead with offering hemp baby greens as an ingredient in leafy greens salad […]
Kratom is a naturally occurring drug that is growing rapidly in popularity. It comes from an evergreen tree in Thailand that is a “cousin” to the coffee tree, and has similar effects to opioids. However, the FDA considers it pretty much the same thing, and they’ve been trying to ban it nationally for years. Their […]
A research fund of $700,000 has been given to a medical school in Australia to test the benefits of giving children in the advanced stages of cancer a prescription for medical marijuana to manage their pain and sleep. This will be a three-year study, and will tackle the largely untouched and taboo field of marijuana […]
As soon as next week, there will be a crucial vote in the US House of Representatives on an amendment to protect legal marijuana states from federal interference. This critical measure is known as the Blumenauer-McClintock-Norton-Lee amendment, after Representatives Earl Blumenauer (D), and Barbara Lee (D) (co-Chairs of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus), Tom McClintock (R) […]
According to data from the Arizona Republic, the state of Arizona has made over $75 million in tax revenue from marijuana sales during the months of January to May. This comes after recreational sales of marijuana became legal for anyone above the age of 21. The Arizona Republic also stated that the state is scheduled […]
