Hemp pioneer Kentucky is reporting licensing fewer hemp growers and growing acreage for 2020 as state agriculture officials warn prospective producers to “proceed with caution” after a “volatile” 2019. State agriculture officials in Kentucky on Friday released production data from the 2019 season and revealed the number of licensed growers, hemp processors and handlers as […]
High Times founder Tom Forcade and Legal Counsel Michael J. Kennedy assured the magazine remained a major NORML financial supporter, until it was recently sold to corporate greedheads!
Law Enforcement Aggression, Assault and Killing of Black People, Using Drugs as a Cover, Must End New York, NY – In response to the unconscionable killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police, where a police officer joked about not doing drugs as Floyd desperately pleaded to breathe, Kassandra Frederique, Managing Director of Policy, Advocacy and […]
“Suspicionless marijuana testing never has been an evidence-based policy. Rather, these discriminatory practices are a holdover from the zeitgeist of the 1980s ‘war on drugs.’ But times have changed; attitudes have changed, and in many places, the marijuana laws have changed. It is time for workplace policies to adapt to this new reality.”
The proposed measure expands the discretion of physicians so that they can recommend cannabis therapy for “any condition” that he or she “considers debilitating to an individual patient and is qualified through his [or her] medical education and training to treat.”
CV Sciences, a San Diego-based CBD manufacturer, won’t face a labeling lawsuit until federal health authorities decide how to regulate over-the-counter CBD, a federal judge has ruled. The decision makes California’s Virginia Phillips the second federal judge to delay a CBD class-action attempt because the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is reviewing whether CBD should be […]
When you have no idea where you’re going, your instinct is to look back. That’s why global upheaval caused by the coronavirus pandemic has everyone looking to the past for guidance. We search for clues in the Spanish flu pandemic of the 20th century—and the bubonic plague of the 14th century—hoping to draw lessons that protect our health now. Kristen […]
A Chinese business that planned to buy a hemp food company from Australian-based Elixinol Global, a CBD producer, has pulled out of the deal, citing economic impacts from COVID-19. Sydney-based Elixinol had worked on an agreement for Yunnan Luxin Biopharmeceutical to buy Elixinol’s Hemp Foods Australia, but the Chinese company terminated the agreement Tuesday, according […]
A U.S. hemp standards group has added a former state attorney general and a former FDA official to the organization’s board. The appointments of former Arkansas attorney general Dustin McDaniel and Larisa Pavlick were announced Thursday by the U.S. Hemp Authority Board, a self-regulating organization. Pavlick currently serves as vice president of Global Quality and […]
In his veto message, the Governor wrote: “The language in the bill makes substantial policy changes to the medical marijuana program that were not fully scrutinized through normal legislative procedures before the bill was received by my office in the middle of the night Saturday. While there is much room for improvement in the way our state’s program operates, this bill does not address those items in a way I can support.”
