The hemp industry has seen its share of struggles and growing pains over the past year, but it’s also witnessed a year full of changes and forward progress. After the 2018 Farm Bill made hemp a legal commodity and took the plant off the list of controlled substances in the United States, the market took […]
Over-the-counter CBD isn’t legal and continues to worry federal drug regulators as more people take it and give it to animals, a lawyer for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Friday. Randall Gnatt, senior counsel at the FDA, told the nation’s veterinarians that the FDA thinks there are “data gaps and safety concerns” about […]
Hemp advocates have been sending their own recommendations to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to try to direct the agency’s enforcement discretion policy for CBD products. The latest hemp group weighing in is the National Industrial Hemp Council, which filed comments with the agency this week emphasizing the importance of establishing basic safety standards […]
Draft legislation that would allow Brazilian farmers to grow cannabis for medical and industrial purposes on domestic soil for the first time has been submitted to the country’s lower house of Congress. The bill was delivered to the House of Deputies speaker this week by lawmakers Paulo Teixeira and Luciano Ducci, co-sponsors of the bill […]
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 […]
