Choosing a new head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will be a top priority for President-elect Joe Biden as the nation continues to wrestle with a pandemic with no end in sight. That’s a change from previous administrations, where the FDA chief was not the first priority, Kaiser Health News reports. Some 4,000 […]
This is another victory for commonsense marijuana law reform in Virginia.
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In a year of a deadly pandemic and a historic presidential election, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that anxiety levels are sky high among American consumers. But the silver lining for the hemp and CBD industry is that at least 20% of consumers are using more CBD products as a direct result of COVID, according to […]
Companion bills A21 / S21 would allow adults 21 and older to legally possess and purchase up to one ounce of marijuana.
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The nail-biter 2020 presidential election in the United States has a lot of folks scratching their heads. The hemp industry is no exception. Though the presidential campaigns never talked about the the newly legal crop, the race set up enormous implications for the business landscape faced by the hemp industry. That’s because the main regulators […]
The Hemp Industries Association and a South Carolina CBD maker are trying to get U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to clarify whether it considers temporary byproducts of hemp production a Schedule 1 substance. In a filing Monday in U.S. District Court in Washington DC, HIA and RE Botanicals ask a judge to order the DEA to […]
House Agriculture Chairman Collin Peterson, a Minnesota Democrat and sponsor of a bill to require federal food and agriculture regulators to treat hemp-derived CBD as a dietary supplement, has lost his re-election bid. Peterson lost to Republican challenger Michelle Fischbach on Tuesday. He has represented rural western Minnesota since 1991; demographic changes made him among […]
CBD consumers trying to make sense of terms like “full spectrum” and “broad spectrum” on labels are getting some help in New York state, where new rules for hemp extracts are winning praise from some in the hemp industry who say they could serve as a template for future state or federal action. Hemp operators […]
Social Equity and Community Reinvestment Must Be Focus of New Mexico Legalization Bill “Arizona has overwhelmingly approved cannabis legalization in their ballot initiative yesterday. As early as November 30th, adults in Arizona will be able to possess up to one ounce and cultivate up to six plants for personal use. It’s now up to state […]
Social Equity and Community Reinvestment Must Be Focus of New Mexico Legalization Bill “Arizona has overwhelmingly approved cannabis legalization in their ballot initiative yesterday. As early as November 30th, adults in Arizona will be able to possess up to one ounce and cultivate up to six plants for personal use. It’s now up to state […]
