An Alabama hemp company has opened a 75,000-square-foot extraction and processing facility near the Georgia border, with plans to speed manufacturing the region. Arbor Vita8 announced the opening of the plant Monday, saying the new facility aims to “bolster this region’s efforts to be a significant contributor and leader in the hemp industry.” The processing […]
Hemp-derived CBD supplement maker Elixinol shed half of its global workforce and shuttered production lines in the first half of this year in response to market decline stemming from the global COVID-19 pandemic. Now the Australian company is looking to leverage a leaner operation and focus on its core CBD brands for future success. Talking […]
Decades of youth abstinence pledges have stifled generations of Americans’ ability to think critically about their own health. Red Ribbon Week, the largest drug-use prevention campaign in the United States, finds itself egregiously out of touch this year. Founded in 1985 by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and powered by the National Family Partnership (NFP), the […]
Montana has set up a free trading platform for its hemp farmers, copying an existing platform it uses for hay and pasture. Montana’s Hemp Marketplace allows people to buy and sell: hempseed. grain. fiber. flower. clones. Listings need approval from the state agriculture department, though the state doesn’t verify or vouch for the quality of […]
Canadian greenhouse giant Village Farms International is moving ahead with plans to take over a firm it started as a joint venture to produce marijuana and CBD in British Columbia. Village Farms, one of North America’s largest producers of greenhouse tomatoes, bell peppers and cucumbers, has approval from its joint-venture partner Emerald Health Therapeutics to […]
Italy’s Health Ministry has backtracked on its decision to add ingestible, hemp-derived CBD formulas to a list of medicines in its narcotics law, issuing a decree to suspend the controversial change one day before it was due to take effect. The eleventh-hour reversal came as a decree published on Thursday in the Italian Official Gazette. It suspended […]
Vegetable growers across the U.S. weren’t among the traditional farmers heavily diversifying into hemp production in 2020. According to a survey of 437 farmers by trade journal American Vegetable Grower, 77% said they had no intention of planting the crop this year. Just 4% of farmers said they planned to grow hemp while 19% indicated […]
A tribal nation in New Mexico is suing 33 farmers for allegedly violating sovereign law by growing hemp and marijuana. In the second hemp-related lawsuit filed by the Navajo Nation, the tribal nation accuses farmers of possessing or controlling Navajo lands that are being used to illegally grow, produce, manufacture, transport or sell industrial hemp and possibly […]
Cannabis lab technicians can make the perfect oil, but the accompanying hardware needs to be on par for the customer to have a quality experience. (Photo courtesy of The Blinc Group) (This story appears in the October issue of Marijuana Business Magazine.) Cannabis extraction companies labor over making perfectly flavorful and potent oil. But if […]
(A version of this story first appeared at Marijuana Business Daily.) A Bahamas committee charged with laying out an economic recovery plan recommends the country legalize hemp and hemp extracts. Presented last week, the Economic Recovery Committee report also calls on the nation to legalize marijuana. The recommendations were part of a broader report presented […]
