The Hemp Industries Association and a South Carolina CBD manufacturer are asking a second federal court to prevent the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration from criminalizing hemp extracts. At issue is whether the DEA is simply updating its policies to comply with the 2018 Farm Bill, which removed low-THC cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act, or whether […]
The market for CBD edibles in the United Kingdom is less than six months away from a radical upheaval, but Gavin Ogilvie isn’t worried. Starting April 1, no CBD product on the U.K. market will be allowed to stay there without validation by food-safety authorities, and Ogilvie’s company – the Manchester-based cannabinoid supplier and white […]
The Arthritis Foundation, the first major patient advocacy group to issue CBD recommendations, has named a subsidiary of Charlotte’s Web, CBDMEDIC, as a sponsor. The announcement comes more than a year after the group recommended CBD guidelines to some 50 million or so arthritis patients. The recommendation included warnings that people with arthritis should avoid […]
Online retail giant Amazon has launched a pilot program allowing the sale of select CBD ingestibles on its UK website. The company says “sellers participating in a limited, invite-only pilot” on the UK site are exempt from its sales ban on edible products containing CBD or other cannabinoids. “This pilot only applies to products listed […]
(A version of this story first appeared at Marijuana Business Daily.) As outdoor hemp growers contend with wildfires ravaging the western United States, the need for preventative steps is even more important now that fire season starts earlier and ends later. This year’s fires have torched roughly 6 million acres. They have destroyed cannabis farms […]
Indiana says that hemp companies challenging a ban on smokable hemp can’t add a Tennessee hemp association to the case or make other changes because a new state law allows interstate transport of the product as long as it’s between licensed entities. State attorneys argued in a court filing last week that the 2018 Farm […]
A Texas holding company that makes CBD is joining the market for hemp-based meat alternatives, with plans to manufacture the products in Montana. Digital Development Partners of Flower Mound, Texas, maker of Grizzly Creek Naturals CBD products, says it has not yet settled on a location in Montana where it will manufacture the hemp protein […]
Trying to block what it calls a rogue hemp farmer, the Navajo Nation Council has redefined the term “marijuana” to mean all parts of the cannabis plant and strengthened legal language requiring tribal permission to grow the plant. The vote this week comes as the tribe tries to shut down hemp farms on tribal land […]
Former Clemson University football coach Danny Ford is among five farmers suing a South Carolina hemp processing company, alleging the processor mishandled and ruined their crops. Ford and Tom Garrison, both Anderson County residents, were among the first 20 farmers given license to participate in South Carolina’s 2018 industrial hemp pilot program. Ford and Garrison […]
(This story has been updated to correct the name of the representative speaking for the United States.) The United States says it does not support a World Health Organization proposal to remove CBD extracts with less than 0.2% THC from international drug control. U.S. State Department attorney Patt Prugh, speaking Thursday to a United Nations […]
