Colorado-based CBD extractor and private-label supplier Mile High Labs has entered a distribution deal with a subsidiary of a major UK convenience store group for its own consumer brand. The distribution agreement for Mile High’s CBD brand Mellow Greens was struck with Nisa Retail, which is owned by The Co-operative Group. Eleven of the brand’s […]
Mexico’s president says he won’t interfere with legislation to legalize marijuana and hemp when the country’s Congress takes up the bill next month. The comments from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador during a news conference Wednesday are significant because he previously indicated his administration’s focus was on regulating hemp for medicinal use, not creating a […]
One of the nation’s largest chained retailers of health supplements, Vitamin Shoppe, is leaning into its CBD experiment with expanded plans to carry more ingestibles and topicals. The retailer says that strong demand prompted a move to ratchet up CBD displays in some 572 locations in 39 states, plus Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico. The […]
A California consumer products company has purchased a hemp and CBD producer headquartered in Grand Junction, Colorado. Kadenwood LLC, a privately held consumer-products company focused on amplifying CBD in the mainstream retail-wellness category, has acquired EcoGen Laboratories, a four-year-old company that manufactures and distributes CBD from hemp produced from its own proprietary genetics. The price […]
A labeling lawsuit accusing American Shaman CBD of falsely claiming its products were free of heavy metals has been dismissed from federal court – but the plaintiff plans to revive the lawsuit in Florida court. U.S. District Judge William Dimitrouleas on Tuesday approved the plaintiff’s motion to dismiss the case against the Missouri-based manufacturer. Daniel […]
Photo courtesy of Hempen A lingering stalemate between state and federal regulators over rules for growing hemp is leaving farmers without strong direction as they head into a harvest season unsure about the rules that will govern them. The stalemate intensified this week when New York, one of the largest hemp producers with some 29,985 licensed […]
A Texas judge has temporarily blocked state health officials from enforcing a ban on smokable hemp. Travis County Judge Lora Livingston granted a temporary restraining order Wednesday to a group of hemp producers challenging a rule enacted by state health authorities earlier this month that blocks the manufacture and sale of smokable hemp products, said […]
The CBD vape market in Germany would likely decline in coming years even without new restrictions and advertising bans for the non-nicotine e-cigarettes, analysts say. According to market researchers at CBD-Intel, the German CBD vape product market – estimated at $11 million this year – is expected to decline to around $8.4 million by 2025. […]
Calling federal rules for regulating hemp “unrealistic” and “unreasonable,” New York agriculture authorities say they won’t try to regulate the crop, telling hemp farmers they’ll have to rely on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s looming rules on hemp production. In a letter to farmers, New York Agriculture & Markets Commissioner Richard Ball said that the […]
A New Jersey company that makes CBD-infused seltzers has an agreement with the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of New York Inc. to get the product in New York City grocery stores and bodegas. Hillview, a hemp and MJ producer based in Pequannock, New Jersey, says the deal lands it in all five borough of New York, […]
