Hemp got a big makeover recently in U.S. law. Now an annual summertime event to promote the plant is getting a makeover, too. The longtime Hemp History Week has been rebranded as Hemp Week, observed this year June 6-12, in a move to revitalize an advocacy campaign recently acquired by the U.S. Hemp Industries Association. […]
Portland, Oregon-based Resource Innovation Institute (RII) is hoping to establish standards for water quality and water use for hemp and marijuana cultivators, including both indoor and outdoor growers. Members of the cannabis industry have been calling for standards across sectors for years, though few have been put in place. According to Greenhouse Grower, Derek Smith, […]
A Canadian company that makes natural nonwoven fibers says it has raised $3.3 million, mostly from angel investors, to help finish developing a proprietary processing plant in Europe. Victoria, British Columbia-based Bast Fibre Technologies made the announcement this week, saying the investors are buying common shares and will get an equity stake in the company. […]
Storefronts are re-opening and farms are commencing with planting season, and hemp and CBD and businesses continue to seek out loans and disaster relief money as economic recovery begins. Hemp industry members bristled at an announcement from federal agriculture officials in late May that money set aside for farmers wouldn’t be going to anyone growing […]
Smokable hemp looks set to remain legal in North Carolina next year after the state’s General Assembly sent the state’s farm bill to the governor without new regulations for the hemp industry. The Senate gave final approval on Thursday to a compromise measure that also got House support on Wednesday. An agreement between House and […]
Canadian CBD company NewLeaf Brands Inc. is changing its name to Mydecine Innovations Group Inc. to reflect its focus on developing strains of psychedelic mushrooms. The Vancouver, British Columbia-based company will now be called Mydecine Innovations Group Inc. and its ticker on the Canadian Stock Exchange is changing from NLB to MYCO. The change becomes effective Friday, […]
Lawmakers in North Carolina stripped all proposed hemp regulation from the state’s farm bill in order to get it passed, surrendering their attempt to put more permanent guidelines in place following a months-long spat between farmers and law enforcement over smokeable hemp. State lawmakers in the House voted 86-34 in favor of the stripped-down bill, local […]
The market for exporting hemp from Colombia to the rest of the world is getting off the ground and Manuel Baselga sees a bright future for the commodity in his country. Baselga is co-founder and board member of Savanna Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in cannabis companies internationally, but heavily focused in Colombia. Based […]
South Africa has amended its drug law to allow some CBD products to be available over the counter, making a temporary rule on non-prescription CBD permanent. Certain CBD medicines and full-spectrum cannabis-derived products will no longer be subject to medical controls, according to a notice in the official gazette that was published last month. The […]
A Canadian marijuana producer has announced it’s shifting to processing and extracting hemp biomass into CBD concentrates by signing a purchase agreement with a leading supplier of high-CBD industrial hemp. Calgary-based RMMI Corp. announced Tuesday it plans to buy 300,000 pounds of high-CBD hemp biomass from Clearwater CannaGrow Ltd. for $4,800,000. The payment will come […]
