A national hemp association is looking for a new leader after the immediate departure of its executive director. Colleen Keahey Lanier, who since 2017 has led the national Hemp Industries Association (HIA), a nonprofit trade organization focused on education, industry development and expansion of the U.S. and international hemp markets, told Hemp Industry Daily she is […]
In the FY2020 appropriations package released Monday, existing protections for medical cannabis programs from federal prosecutors that have been in place since 2014 remained, but other amendments that had been added earlier in the year by House Democrats were removed from the final compromise.
New York, NY – In response to the New Jersey legislature’s passage of a measure (SCR183/ACR840) to put marijuana legalization on the 2020 ballot, as well as a bill to expunge records for low-level drug offenses, Maria McFarland Sanchez-Moreno, Executive Director of the Drug Policy Alliance, issued the following statement: “Given the legislature’s inability to pass […]
Super-majorities of the New Jersey Assembly and Senate have decided to place a marijuana legalization ballot question before voters in 2020.
An association that represents the top officers of the departments of agriculture in all 50 states and four U.S. territories has joined other voices on Capitol Hill in asking the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for a 60-day extension on submitting public comments about hemp production. In a letter to federal agriculture officials, the National […]
Stringent sampling and testing protocols mandated by federal agriculture officials in the new hemp production regulations could make the hemp flower market go up in smoke, according to industry observers. Farmers and industry advocates worry the lucrative smokable hemp flower that many farmers are producing – with hopes of earning some of the highest profits […]
The U.S. Senate has confirmed a cancer specialist from Texas to lead the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Dr. Stephen Hahn was confirmed Thursday. He replaces Dr. Scott Gottlieb. Hahn hasn’t said how he believes cannabis extracts such as CBD should be regulated, though he said at his confirmation hearing that he wants to see […]
Front Range Biosciences is the inaugural winner of the MJBizDaily Awards’ Hemp Game Changer Award. The 2019 award was presented to Front Range Biosciences CEO Jonathan Vaught on Thursday night at the MJBizDaily Awards gala during MJBizCon Week in Las Vegas. “I’m really honored,” Vaught said after winning the award. “I’ve got an incredible team that […]
A Kentucky hemp producer has secured a sizable loan to help grow its business in 2020. AgTech Scientific, a privately held hemp and CBD company in Paris, Kentucky, said it has closed a $30 million business loan with Truist Financial, a Charlotte, North Carolina-based bank holding company formerly known as BB&T. “We are honored to […]
The legal battle between the U.S. arm of Canadian cannabis giant Canopy Growth and a Nevada-based hemp producer appears to be over. Canopy filed notice that it is dropping its lawsuit accusing Go Farm Hemp of squandering a $12 million advance to grow hemp. Canopy’s filing to dismiss came a month after Go Farm Hemp’s […]
