House lawmakers passed a historic cannabis banking bill Wednesday that also provides a safe harbor for financial institutions serving hemp and hemp-derived CBD businesses. Proponents believed that such provisions were necessary despite the fact that hemp became legal nationwide with the enactment of the 2018 Farm Bill. The hemp amendments in the SAFE Banking Act, […]
(Editor’s note: David Gordon will appear at the MJBizDaily Latin American Cannabis Symposium, Sept. 30-Oct. 1, in Bogota, Colombia.) Cannabis companies are investing heavily in Latin American markets, where low-THC varieties known as hemp in the U.S. play a large role in nascent medical marijuana regulations. The companies that entered Colombia in recent years are seeing […]
Hemp-derived construction components could help reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and should be promoted by the government, according to a new report from an English farmers association. The National Farming Union, a group of about 50,000 farmers in England and Wales, touted hemp construction in a plan detailing ways to get England’s and Wales’ farming industries to […]
A Toronto marijuana producer is making plans to grow hemp in China to make CBD and other hemp products. Pure Global Cannabis announced Tuesday it signed an agreement to grow roughly 17,000 acres of hemp in the Yunnan province. Pure Global Cannabis says it will operate its China hemp operation with another company, KMT-Hansa Corp. […]
The only federally approved CBD product in the U.S. has been OK’d by European authorities for use there. The European Commission granted marketing authorization to Epidyolex, the trade name in Europe for Epidiolex, GW Pharmaceuticals announced Monday. In June 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Epidiolex for the treatment of seizures associated with two rare kinds […]
The Arthritis Foundation became the first major patient advocacy group to issue CBD recommendations, telling some 50 million arthritis patients Tuesday what to look for when choosing CBD. The group did not recommend using CBD to treat arthritis symptoms, though it noted that people with arthritis show “significant use of and interest in CBD” for […]
Illinois has an estimated 770,000 marijuana related criminal records which are now eligible for clemency by Governor Pritzker.
World High Life will buy Love Hemp, which makes CBD topicals and edibles, for $11.23 million, the company announced Monday. Love Hemp products are distributed in convenience stores and drugstores. World High Life said the acquisition would give it “strong exposure to the significant and growing CBD market in the UK and Europe.” World High […]
Ecuador may change its laws around hemp as part of a broader overhaul of how the South American country treats medical cannabis. Last week, Ecuador’s Congress approved a major reform of the Organic Integral Criminal Code. Ecuador is one of the few South American countries that still has not legalized hemp nor medical cannabis. If given […]
Looking to capitalize on the renewed effort to legalize adult-use marijuana in the Garden State, McKeithen and her team have organized another rally and lobby day to urge lawmakers to support SB 2703: the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory and Expungement Aid Modernization Act.
