Griffin, a horticultural plant broker and supply company based in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, has linked up with The Hemp Mine, a South Carolina-based hemp breeder and young plant provider in an effort to expand distribution across the U.S. Southern hemp breeder partners with horticultural broker for expanded US distribution footprint is a post from: Marijuana Business […]
SOAR™, makers of high performing, hemp-derived CBD products for healthy bodies and minds, today announced the addition of three innovative functional tinctures to their product lineup – Harmony Held, Energy Enhanced and Sleep Secured – crafted with organically farmed CBD, introducing CBG and CBN, and containing less than 0.3% THC. CBG and CBN are lesser-known […]
Canadian marijuana producer Hexo Corp. says it has settled a trademark-infringement lawsuit against a California CBD maker. Canadian MJ firm Hexo claims win in California CBD trademark dispute is a post from: Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal & Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs Views: 259
A “cannabis light” vending machine in Italy (photo courtesy Alfredo Pascual) The availability of hemp flower containing up to 0.6% THC in Italy led some marijuana users to abandon their illicit products, costing criminal networks tens of millions, a trio of economists has found. The researchers’ findings, published last year in the European Economic Review, […]
The nail-biter 2020 presidential election in the United States has a lot of folks scratching their heads. The hemp industry is no exception. Though the presidential campaigns never talked about the the newly legal crop, the race set up enormous implications for the business landscape faced by the hemp industry. That’s because the main regulators […]
A hemp farmer in east Tennessee is suing a trooper for the Tennessee State Highway Patrol for twice charging her with crimes that were later dismissed. Rose Hembrook of Pikeville says she was pulled over by Trooper Donald Seiber in 2019 while driving two bags of hemp debris to the dump. She says she showed […]
The Hemp Industries Association and a South Carolina CBD maker are trying to get U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to clarify whether it considers temporary byproducts of hemp production a Schedule 1 substance. In a filing Monday in U.S. District Court in Washington DC, HIA and RE Botanicals ask a judge to order the DEA to […]
House Agriculture Chairman Collin Peterson, a Minnesota Democrat and sponsor of a bill to require federal food and agriculture regulators to treat hemp-derived CBD as a dietary supplement, has lost his re-election bid. Peterson lost to Republican challenger Michelle Fischbach on Tuesday. He has represented rural western Minnesota since 1991; demographic changes made him among […]
CBD consumers trying to make sense of terms like “full spectrum” and “broad spectrum” on labels are getting some help in New York state, where new rules for hemp extracts are winning praise from some in the hemp industry who say they could serve as a template for future state or federal action. Hemp operators […]
(A version of this story first appeared at Marijuana Business Daily.) United Kingdom-based GW Pharmaceuticals posted higher revenue in the quarter ended Sept. 30, largely driven by U.S. sales of its cannabidiol medicine Epidiolex. GW’s total revenue for the third quarter reached $137.1 million, about 16% more than the previous quarter’s $121.3 million. Epidiolex sales […]
