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MORE Act Headed For Vote, SAFE Banking Still In Play

Marijuana Laws, Regulations, & Politics September 1, 2020 0

by Morgan Fox, NCIA’s Director of Media Relations We asked, you answered, and your efforts are seeing results! Over the past months, our Government Relations team in Washington, D.C. has been hard at work gathering support in Congress for the Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment, and Expungement (MORE) Act, and many... Read more

Former GM plant tapped for hemp decortication in Texas

Industrial Hemp News Marijuana Laws, Regulations, & Politics September 1, 2020 0

A Dallas company that specializes in developing large-scale industrial projects has chosen the Texas town of Wichita Falls for a new hemp decortication facility. Panda Biotech said Tuesday it has contracted 500,000 square feet for the facility, along with the surrounding 97-acre campus that formerly was a General Motors... Read more

Brazilian cannabis advocates, critics attend virtual hearing on draft cultivation law

Industrial Hemp News International News Marijuana Laws, Regulations, & Politics September 1, 2020 0

South America’s largest economy took another step toward legalizaing cannabis cultivation on Tuesday when parents, clergy members, physicians, growers and regulators logged online to attend a public hearing on a draft law that would legalize the cultivation of cannabis in Brazil. The technical meeting was organized by the lower... Read more

California bill to allow hemp CBD-infused products fails

Industrial Hemp News Marijuana Laws, Regulations, & Politics September 1, 2020 0

A California proposal to allow hemp extracts in food and beverages has again failed amid broad disagreement on how to allow cannabinoids outside licensed marijuana retailers. The bill would have also set testing and labeling requirements for safety, and to ensure products don’t exceed 0.3% THC levels. But California... Read more

INTERVIEW: Germany’s Sanity Group prepares to launch new CBD lobby group

Featured Industrial Hemp News Marijuana Laws, Regulations, & Politics September 1, 2020 0

One German company has decided to tackle the high-risk regulatory landscape for cannabinoid products in Europe’s largest economy head on with a new lobby group for CBD manufacturers and retailers. Sanity Group, a manufacturer of cannabinoid products based in Berlin, has joined forces with Canadian cannabis giant Aphria and... Read more

Vermont CBD retailer accused of bilking hemp farmers of at least $150,000

Industrial Hemp News Marijuana Laws, Regulations, & Politics September 1, 2020 0

The owner of a CBD store in Vermont is accused of bilking hemp farmers and writing bad checks. Douglas Bell, the owner of CBD-Vermont in Waterbury, pleaded not guilty to seven felony counts of theft of service, two felony counts of false pretenses, two misdemeanor counts of writing a... Read more

Farm equipment exec joins National Hemp Association board

Industrial Hemp News Marijuana Laws, Regulations, & Politics September 1, 2020 0

New Holland North America vice president Brett Davis has been tapped to join the National Hemp Association’s board of directors. Davis spoke over the weekend to NHA members at the group’s annual meeting and talked about plans to increase farm equipment and machinery designed for hemp at New Holland,... Read more

Looming Congress vote would eliminate THC line between hemp, marijuana

Industrial Hemp News Marijuana Laws, Regulations, & Politics September 1, 2020 0

(A version of this story first appeared at Marijuana Business Daily.) A bill to remove cannabis from the U.S. Controlled Substances Act regardless of THC content and thereby legalize marijuana federally – with massive business implications – is scheduled to be considered by the full U.S. House the week... Read more

USDA lawyer: Hemp growers have ‘a little bit of leeway’ on THC testing, but not much

Featured Industrial Hemp News Marijuana Laws, Regulations, & Politics August 31, 2020 0

Cuttings are taken from mother stock plants, then rooted into growing media to produce clones for the farmer network and indoor flower production. Farmers experimenting with hemp production in the U.S. may not want to hold out hope that legal THC limits in looming national hemp rules are going... Read more

Australia’s Ecofibre’s purchase of US partner will support hemp facemask supply chain

Industrial Hemp News International News Marijuana Laws, Regulations, & Politics August 28, 2020 0

Ecofibre Limited, an Australian manufacturer of hemp-derived CBD, food products, textiles and composites, has completed a $42 million purchase of a portfolio of manufacturing businesses in North Carolina to support the commercialization of its Hemp Black facemask and gaiter line. The acquisition of textile manufacturing platform TexInnovate, completed ahead... Read more

MORE Act Headed For Vote, SAFE Banking Still In Play

Former GM plant tapped for hemp decortication in Texas

Brazilian cannabis advocates, critics attend virtual hearing on draft cultivation law

California bill to allow hemp CBD-infused products fails

INTERVIEW: Germany’s Sanity Group prepares to launch new CBD lobby group

Vermont CBD retailer accused of bilking hemp farmers of at least $150,000

Farm equipment exec joins National Hemp Association board

Looming Congress vote would eliminate THC line between hemp, marijuana

USDA lawyer: Hemp growers have ‘a little bit of leeway’ on THC testing, but not much

Australia’s Ecofibre’s purchase of US partner will support hemp facemask supply chain

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