Under the proposed measure, patients registered with the state’s medical cannabis access program would be permitted to grow up to three mature cannabis plants at home. Currently, qualified patients are only permitted to obtain medical cannabis from a limited number of state-licensed dispensaries.
Hemp farmers are about to get some help protecting their crop from natural disasters, but any hope that the proposed federal production rules will change in time for the 2020 growing season should be put aside for now, officials say. Top officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture have revealed new details for two hemp […]
Maine CBD processor Sun Kissed Industries has acquired a California company that makes CBD products sold in 20 states. Terms of Sun Kissed’s acquisition of Hakuna Supply on Thursday were not disclosed. Carl Grant, CEO of Portland, Maine-based Sun Kissed, said in a statement that the acquisition will “thrust Sun Kissed onto the global CBD […]
A South Dakota legislative committee on Thursday unanimously approved a bill to allow industrial hemp production in the state. The proposal, which passed in the House Agriculture and Natural Resources committee, would legalize and regulate the growth, processing and transportation of hemp in the state. Passage would leave Idaho and Mississippi as the only states […]
Governor Andrew Cuomo has included a plan to “regulate, restrict, and control” the responsible adult use of cannabis in New York, known as the Cannabis Regulation and Taxation Act
(“CRTA”).
After a season rife with challenges, Kentucky hemp producer and CBD manufacturer GenCanna Global and its subsidiary Hemp Kentucky filed for bankruptcy protection. GenCanna’s Chapter 11 filing on Wednesday followed involuntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy petitions filed in January by companies owed money by the Winchester, Kentucky-based firm: Pinnacle. Crawford Sales. Integrity/Architecture. According to the case […]
(Editor’s note: This is part of an occasional series on California’s hemp industry. To read the previous installment, click here.) Hemp entrepreneurs in California are optimistic that long-awaited state legislation to legalize hemp-derived CBD as an ingredient in food, beverages and cosmetics will be revived from suspension and ready for Gov. Gavin Newsom to approve […]
As the U.S. hemp industry waits to see what happens next with the federal hemp production program, more state-run programs have decided to keep the status quo for another year. Less than a week after the U.S. Department of Agriculture closed a public comment period on its hemp rules, five more states announced they will […]
Trulieve Cannabis, the predominant player in Florida’s medical marijuana industry, has experienced a huge drop-off in milligrams of CBD sold in Florida over the past eight weeks. The trend accelerated this week, according to data analysis from Marijuana Business Daily‘s Investor Intelligence analysts. Trulieve’s market share of CBD sales has fallen nearly 20 percentage points […]
Colorado hemp grower and CBD manufacturer EcoGen Laboratories raised $40 million in a private placement, saying it will use the funds to consolidate operations and start producing white-label CBD products in a former steel plant in western Colorado. The company said it plans to consolidate operations and extraction in a new headquarters in Grand Junction, […]
