A Tennessee blockchain fintech company has entered a national retail distribution agreement with 1606 Corp., a smokable hemp brand of SinglePoint Inc., a Phoenix-based technology and investment company. SurgePays Inc. offers prepaid financial services and wholesale products to independent retailers including convenience stores, mini-marts, tiendas and bodegas. According to SurgePays Chairman and CEO Brian Cox, […]
Potentially the most painful sport in the country (although I’m sure a lot of Rodeo-heads will disagree), the NFL is looking to get out of the opioid business. They’re offering up $1 million in grants to researchers looking to find an alternative to their current opioid-centric treatment, including marijuana and CBD. In particular, they want […]
The National Football League’s pain management committee and the NFL Players Association announced Tuesday that they will provide $1 million to fund up to five research grants on pain management and cannabinoids. The grants are expected to be awarded in November. Interest in the use of cannabinoids, including medical marijuana, outpaces available evidence, according to […]
Jeremy Moberg, the founder and CEO of this cannabis farm in Riverside, Washington, wonders why state regulators haven’t permanently banned delta-8 THC products. (Photo courtesy of Jeremy Moberg) Washington state marijuana growers are concerned that, without a change to state laws, their businesses could be severely hamstrung by federally legal hemp. At issue is hemp-derived […]
Federal customs officials say an Oregon hemp company was flying marijuana, not hemp, to Switzerland last year and that the biomass should be destroyed. The accusation from U.S. Customs and Border Protection came Monday in a lawsuit from We CBD, a hemp producer based in Sandy, Oregon. We CBD is suing for the return of […]
Yesterday Washington state approved joints being given out to adults who have gotten the covid vaccine. They’re calling it “Joints for Jabs,” and it follows breweries and restaurants giving out free drinks and the state handing out prize money up to $1 million, according to KXL news. The lottery prize money is becoming a rather […]
A hemp producer is among a group of small- and medium-sized businesses in Saskatchewan that received funding from the Canadian federal government. Saskatoon-headquartered Blue Sky Hemp Ventures received 749,115 Canadian dollars ($618,800) to upgrade a facility in Saskatchewan for hemp oil pressing and CBD oil refining, according to the announcement by Western Economic Diversification Canada. […]
(An abbreviated version of this interview appears in the May-June issue of Marijuana Business Magazine.) It seems everyone in cannabis has an opinion on delta-8 THC, a minor cannabinoid that exists rarely in nature but can be synthesized easily from CBD isolate. It’s an isomer of the better-known delta-9 THC, and it creates milder psychoactive […]
A large bill that provides funding for highways is going to be taken up within the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee this week. It’s a mammoth, over 1,200 pages, but somewhere within its binding they were able to slip in an expansion of what researchers are able to study when it comes to marijuana. As […]
A federal judge last week dismissed an Oregon hemp producer’s lawsuit claiming that Josephine County officials seized and destroyed legal hemp worth $2.5 million after mistaking it for marijuana. However, the judge dismissed the case without prejudice, leaving Oregonized Hemp Co., a hemp farm and farm service contracting business based in Grants Pass, and owner […]
