Courtesy of Penn State University For a while now there’s been an incorrect yet popular belief that hemp plants have no diseases and don’t need pesticides or fertilizers. Although that mythology has persisted, horticulturists and farmers with experience growing hemp know the plant is vulnerable to diseases and disorders just like other crops, if not […]
A major greenhouse grower based in Canada has inked an agreement to buy part of a cannabinoid seller in Australia to support its ambitions of entering the CBD market in the Asia-Pacific region. Village Farms International, a grower with greenhouses and partner greenhouses in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico and a large cannabis operation in […]
Kristen Nichols (This is an abridged version of a column that appears in the August issue of Marijuana Business Magazine.) It isn’t just the guys and gals making high-THC products who confront illicit competition. Hemp entrepreneurs see it, too. The fact was driven home recently when a CBD manufacturer I cover got a phone call from a […]
CBD drug Epidiolex received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat seizures associated with a third medical condition, expanding the range of indications for the cannabis-derived medication. The orally administered drug from Britain’s GW Pharmaceuticals previously was approved by the FDA to treat seizures associated with two forms of severe epilepsy, Lennox-Gastaut […]
Cannabis Uruguay Ltda. (UCAN), a cannabis cultivator and processor in Montevideo, has exported its first shipment of dried flowers to Switzerland via Germany. The company’s 50-kilogram shipment of dried cannabis flower landed in Frankfurt on Saturday and arrived in Zurich on Sunday, Jorge Jover, an agronomist who works at UCAN, told Hemp Industry Daily. The […]
A Las Vegas-based company preparing to launch a brand of CBD-containing hemp cigarettes later this year, Taat Lifestyle & Wellness, has appointed a former Philip Morris strategist as its CEO. CBD cigarette maker hires Philip Morris strategist as new chief executive is a post from: Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal & Cannabusiness news for cannabis […]
Hemp businesses using temporary foreign workers are going to see changing fee schedules for visas starting this fall. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security published a series of fee changes for visas on Monday. Visa programs are funded by user fees, which must be updated to cover costs. The agency is hiking fees on seasonal […]
Rocked by a global pandemic and its resulting economic havoc, thousands of CBD companies in the United States will likely shutter in 2020 – but the CBD market will remain flooded with some 1,500 brands jostling for market share, according to cannabis research firm Brightfield Group. The Top 20 over-the-counter CBD companies accounted for just […]
Swiss customs officials have returned approximately CHF 33 million ($36 million) to low-THC cannabis flower producers and sellers after a court said their products were unconstitutionally taxed as a tobacco substitute. CBD sellers in Switzerland had taken legal action to protest the 25% sales tax imposed on their goods as tobacco substitutes, according to a […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has updated a post on its website to spread the word about a Florida company that recalled a batch of CBD oil after a state agency tested the product and found that it contained dangerous levels of lead. Summitt Labs is voluntarily recalling Lot #730 Batch #K018 of its […]
