Read more about the marijuana provisions in this bill at Marijuana Business Daily. Hemp advocates are cheering a U.S. House vote this week to clear banking hurdles for marijuana operators. But they’re hoping the measure known as the SAFE Banking Act is amended in the Senate to clarify a provision that mentions hemp. The bill, […]
The U.S. Postal Service is reminding businesses making vape components to be ready for new prohibitions on mailing their products. A ban taking effect next week could apply to all vape companies, even those shipping legal hemp-derived products. The ban was adopted late last year to reduce access to vape products and could eliminate direct-to-consumer […]
NORML criticized statements made today by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, who reiterated the President’s position that cannabis should be rescheduled under federal law (to Schedule II) rather than descheduled (removed) from the Controlled Substances in a manner similar to tobacco and alcohol. “It is impractical at best and disingenuous at worst for the […]
Happy 4/20!! In honor of today’s highness, here are a few videos to watch, all of them catered for joy to be maximized while high.
(Photo courtesy of Moka Hemp) Hemp farmers are positioned to be big winners if the United States begins paying farmers to sequester carbon as a method to battle climate change. But there are a lot more questions than answers right now about how so-called carbon farming would work, or how hemp operators specifically could benefit. […]
A Washington hemp equipment manufacturer that sued the U.S. Customs and Border Protection for blocking its shipments saw its case dropped from the U.S. district court docket on Friday. A federal judge denied Keirton USA’s request for an injunction to prevent the CBP from blocking its imports and backed the CBP’s argument that the U.S. […]
Hemp industry members are cheering Idaho for becoming the last state in the U.S. to legalize industrial hemp, making the crop now legal to produce in every state in the union, more than two years after the 2018 Farm Bill legalized hemp as a commodity crop. Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed legislation Friday to legalize […]
By Jackie Berg Validated. That’s the overwhelming sentiment of the founders and CEOs behind the seven-month IRB-approved Validcare National CBD Liver Function clinical study, conducted, in part, to answer the FDA’s calls for more rigorous scientific examination of CBD’s impact on liver health. The clinical study revealed “no clinical evidence of liver disease or increase […]
Hemp sequesters carbon, presents low water and nutrient needs and is so versatile that many in the business have stopped counting the number of uses for the plant’s components. This is all great news, right? So imagine my surprise when a prominent figure in the sustainability space gave a lackluster assessment of hemp as a […]
Washington state is licensing hemp manufacturers for the first time, boosting opportunities for processors and extractors who want to sell out of state. A law signed Friday by Gov. Jay Inslee establishes a new hemp processor registration and hemp extract certification under the state Department of Agriculture. Washington will continue to ban hemp extracts in […]
