A Colombian company has inked a deal to put its CBD skincare product line on the shelves of hundreds of drug stores across Spain. Khiron Life Sciences reached the deal with cosmetics distributor Red Yellow Red to bring its Kuida CBD product line to 2,350 stores across four distributor groups, according to a statement released […]
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 […]
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 […]
Members of the Ohio senate advanced a measure expanding the state’s long-standing decriminalization policies.
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(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 […]
“Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered” – and that’s a good way to think about seeking out large distribution deals for smokable hemp products, according to Jackson Garth, CEO of Verde Leaf Group, an Atlanta-based vertically integrated hemp operator. Garth told entrepreneurs at the Hemp Industry Daily Conference Direct what he meant by that idiom […]
Retired Marine fighter pilot Amy McGrath is the Democratic Party’s choice to challenge Republican incumbent Sen. Mitch McConnell this November. The Associated Press on Tuesday afternoon called the race for McGrath over state Rep. Charles Booker, one week after Kentucky’s U.S. Senate primary election. The call came as absentee ballots were being counted. McConnell, the […]
The World Health Organization’s proposal to exempt plant-derived CBD extracts and tinctures with less than 0.2% THC from international control under a United Nations narcotics convention could be difficult to enforce, a U.N. monitoring body has said. The International Narcotics Control Board said authorities in some countries may lack the lab technology or manpower to […]
Democratic Gov. Jared Polis signed legislation into law which provides the office with expanded powers to pardon those with past marijuana convictions.
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