(Editor’s note: This is part of an occasional series on California’s hemp industry.) California’s county-by-county regulatory landscape for hemp production is as varied as its actual scenery. In some of its counties, California is one of the last strongholds against hemp production, while in others, efforts to grow the crop are underway or ordinances have […]
(This story has been updated with details from Oregon.) Hemp farmers in the Western states are frantically harvesting their crops an early-season storm threatens cold temperatures and severe wind chill, potentially dumping as much as 50 inches of snow on their fields. Jamie Fitterer, the owner of Montana Hemp Co., said farmers in Bozeman and […]
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is the latest agency being ordered to accommodate hemp legalization using a budget maneuver. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, announced Thursday he is championing a requirement that the DEA “identify or develop on-the-spot field testing technologies” to distinguish hemp from marijuana. The need for speedier cannabis tests has bedeviled […]
(Editor’s note: Sergio Vazquez will appear at the MJBizDaily Latin American Cannabis Symposium, Sept. 30-Oct. 1, in Bogota, Colombia.) While Latin American countries generally have yet to see the formation of anything close to a real hemp market, some areas will begin to see an export stream next year. Even in Uruguay, the first country in […]
CBD rocketed to the best-selling herbal dietary supplement in natural sales channels last year, ousting turmeric as the No. 1 seller, according to a new report from the American Botanical Council. Sales of CBD products jumped 333% in 2018 in natural- and health-foods sales channels, notching $52.7 million in U.S. sales, the Texas-based industry group […]
House lawmakers passed a historic cannabis banking bill Wednesday that also provides a safe harbor for financial institutions serving hemp and hemp-derived CBD businesses. Proponents believed that such provisions were necessary despite the fact that hemp became legal nationwide with the enactment of the 2018 Farm Bill. The hemp amendments in the SAFE Banking Act, […]
(Editor’s note: David Gordon will appear at the MJBizDaily Latin American Cannabis Symposium, Sept. 30-Oct. 1, in Bogota, Colombia.) Cannabis companies are investing heavily in Latin American markets, where low-THC varieties known as hemp in the U.S. play a large role in nascent medical marijuana regulations. The companies that entered Colombia in recent years are seeing […]
Hemp-derived construction components could help reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and should be promoted by the government, according to a new report from an English farmers association. The National Farming Union, a group of about 50,000 farmers in England and Wales, touted hemp construction in a plan detailing ways to get England’s and Wales’ farming industries to […]
A Toronto marijuana producer is making plans to grow hemp in China to make CBD and other hemp products. Pure Global Cannabis announced Tuesday it signed an agreement to grow roughly 17,000 acres of hemp in the Yunnan province. Pure Global Cannabis says it will operate its China hemp operation with another company, KMT-Hansa Corp. […]
The only federally approved CBD product in the U.S. has been OK’d by European authorities for use there. The European Commission granted marketing authorization to Epidyolex, the trade name in Europe for Epidiolex, GW Pharmaceuticals announced Monday. In June 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Epidiolex for the treatment of seizures associated with two rare kinds […]
