An Oregon hemp business is suing two counties on allegations that police seized legal hemp from its warehouse and then destroyed it. Oregonized Hemp Co. LLC, a hemp farm and farm service contracting business based in Grants Pass, and owner Justin Pitts filed a $2.5 million lawsuit against Josephine and Jackson counties in U.S. District […]
Lower-than-promised germination rates in a batch of hempseed from Colorado has spurred the California farm that bought the seed to file a $17 million lawsuit. GX Farms of Delano, California, said in the suit it bought 520,000 Cherry Blossom hempseeds in May 2019 at 70 cents each, or $364,000, from H.E.M.P. Group of Aurora, Colorado. According […]
Hemp cleaning wipes and hemp toilet paper? Paper manufacturer Georgia-Pacific and a Canadian company that makes natural nonwoven fibers formed a partnership in February – born from a mutual interest in hemp – that could add those items to store shelves. Looking for alternatives to single-use nonwoven products, the companies saw they could team up […]
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to disrupt businesses worldwide, Hemp Industry Daily wants to know how stay-at-home orders have impacted farms and businesses in the hemp and CBD space. According to an informal poll by the editorial staff of Hemp Industry Daily, approximately 54% of the hemp and CBD companies that applied for a Small […]
Canadian CBD company NewLeaf Brands Inc. has bought a Colorado-based businesses that cultivates different strains of mushrooms for medical purposes. Vancouver, British Columbia-based NewLeaf Brands Inc. said in a news release Thursday that it had acquired Mydecine Group in an all-stock deal. The agreement calls for NewLeaf Brands to purchase 100% of the issued and […]
A coalition of hemp farmers plans to screen seed-propagated hemp varieties to determine which ones may be able to produce mother stock for clones that will consistently meet federal THC limits. The project aims to get more cultivars listed with the global Association of Official Seed Certifying Agencies (AOSCA). The project grew out of a […]
“Interested persons or organizations are invited to participate by submitting written views, recommendations, and data related to perspectives on and experiences with pain and pain management. CDC invites comments specifically on topics focused on using or prescribing opioid pain medications, non-opioid medications, or non-pharmacological treatments.”
The federal government has stopped warning CBD companies to stop making coronavirus-related claims and started suing them. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced this week that the owner of Whole Leaf Organics, Marc Ching, has settled with federal authorities and agreed to stop making any health claims about three of his products – CBD-EX, CBD-RX, […]
Aerial photo of hemp field (Photo courtesy Lithempia) In a rural part of northern Lithuania, down a long stretch of dirt road flanked by vast fields, Rokas Šliupas has spent months amassing the equipment he needs to kick-start Lithempia, his new hemp-extraction business. Located just outside the town of Joniskis, not far from the Latvian […]
Sannabis co-founders John Pablo (left) and Juan Pablo Guzman have U.S. permission to import hemp but are snagged by pandemic delays. (Photo courtesy Sannabis) A Colombian company with aspirations of raising hemp in Uruguay and exporting it for sale in the U.S. has the plants and permission from U.S. authorities to start bringing them to market. But […]
