“Thousands of citizens unduly carry the undue burden and stigmatization of a past conviction for behavior that is no longer considered to be a crime. Our sense of justice and our principles of fairness demand that officials move swiftly to right the past wrongs of cannabis prohibition and criminalization.”
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As the hemp industry matures, some business are starting to rely on blockchain technology to assure customers that the products they’re buying contain what’s advertised and information on where they originated. Track-and-trace systems are nothing new in states with medical or recreational marijuana that are required by law to demonstrate a products’ journey from seed […]
The U.S. Small Business Administration is asking federal agriculture officials to listen to farmers on five crucial elements of the proposed interim final rule for hemp production. In its formal comments to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service during the extended comment period that ended last week, the Office of Advocacy of the […]
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont has signed into law the state’s new hemp cultivation regulations to align with requirements from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Connecticut has already submitted its hemp plan to USDA, but the agency has yet to approve it. The new law enacts those changes anyway and gives Connecticut hemp producers new rules […]
The Hemp Industries Association and a South Carolina CBD manufacturer are asking a second federal court to prevent the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration from criminalizing hemp extracts. At issue is whether the DEA is simply updating its policies to comply with the 2018 Farm Bill, which removed low-THC cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act, or whether […]
The market for CBD edibles in the United Kingdom is less than six months away from a radical upheaval, but Gavin Ogilvie isn’t worried. Starting April 1, no CBD product on the U.K. market will be allowed to stay there without validation by food-safety authorities, and Ogilvie’s company – the Manchester-based cannabinoid supplier and white […]
The Arthritis Foundation, the first major patient advocacy group to issue CBD recommendations, has named a subsidiary of Charlotte’s Web, CBDMEDIC, as a sponsor. The announcement comes more than a year after the group recommended CBD guidelines to some 50 million or so arthritis patients. The recommendation included warnings that people with arthritis should avoid […]
Online retail giant Amazon has launched a pilot program allowing the sale of select CBD ingestibles on its UK website. The company says “sellers participating in a limited, invite-only pilot” on the UK site are exempt from its sales ban on edible products containing CBD or other cannabinoids. “This pilot only applies to products listed […]
(A version of this story first appeared at Marijuana Business Daily.) As outdoor hemp growers contend with wildfires ravaging the western United States, the need for preventative steps is even more important now that fire season starts earlier and ends later. This year’s fires have torched roughly 6 million acres. They have destroyed cannabis farms […]
Actor Jim Belushi is so pro-cannabis that he’s now in the industry and says he believes his brother John would still be alive if he had been a “pot head.”
