Learn more about the latest cannabis market conditions in Europe at the European Market Passholder Day Forum at MJBizCon2020, coming up Nov. 23 or on demand anytime afterward. Kombinat Konopny, a hemp grower in Poland, raised 4.2 million zloty ($1.1 million) in an online fundraising campaign this week, reportedly breaking a record for the most […]
A three-day FBI raid of 21 farms in the Shiprock area of the Navajo Nation in New Mexico destroyed more than a quarter-million marijuana plants that were allegedly grown illegally as unlicensed hemp. The raids by U.S., state and tribal law enforcement authorities started on Nov. 9 and involved more than 1,100 makeshift greenhouses, according […]
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is pushing back hard against a hemp association’s attempt to find out if the agency considers temporary byproducts of hemp production a Schedule 1 substance. The DEA told a federal judge this week that the agency “is not required to explain how the (rule) applies to every hypothetical circumstance.” The […]
Hemp products manufacturer Vertical Wellness Inc. has bought a candy-making company to expand its reach into the edibles market. Vertical Wellness CEO Smoke Wallin said purchasing The Organic Candy Factory, based in California, is a “perfect segue” to expand into selling gummy-bear infused CBD products, Reuters reported Wednesday. The candy company currently doesn’t make cannabis-infused […]
Five judges on the European Union’s top court in Luxembourg are set to rule on the legality of France’s ban on hemp-derived CBD – and potentially upend the future of Europe’s hemp industry in the process. Thursday’s ruling on the so-called Kanavape case is one of the most highly anticipated decisions for Europe’s CBD industry. […]
A New York CBD maker wants $1.7 million from a North Carolina builder it hired to deliver prefabricated buildings for hemp extraction and processing. Hemp Productions Inc. of Poughkeepsie filed suit for damaged buildings it says it got from MCC Development Inc. of Asheville, North Carolina, and a fabricator, Ideal Environmental of Los Banos, California. […]
A Colorado extraction company has hired a new director of sales. Greeley-based Vantage Hemp Co. said in a news release Tuesday Christian Santi’s responsibility will be to expand the company’s sales in the U.S., Europe and South America. “The addition of Christian to our team reinforces our promise for data-driven, consistent and premium CBD extracts […]
Launched just after graduation in the summer of 2015, Hemper, the brainchild of three college friends, Bryan Gerber, Ravjot Bhasin and Henry Kochhar, now seeks to be the one stop shop for weed smokers and their smoking accessories. While in college, now CEO Bryan Gerber noticed a lack of supply for the demand of smoking […]
The hemp and CBD industry will be watching closely this week to find out whether federal regulators seem inclined to require warning labels for pregnant or nursing women on CBD products, or to mandate gender-specific dosing levels. That’s because the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Women’s Health will be leading discussions about “CBD […]
A version of this story first appeared on Marijuana Business Daily. Consumer demand has been pushing the THC potency of herbal marijuana upward for decades — but that increased potency does not extend to CBD levels, a new study has found. The systematic review and meta-analysis of studies between 1970–2017 found levels of THC increased […]
