Calling federal rules for regulating hemp “unrealistic” and “unreasonable,” New York agriculture authorities say they won’t try to regulate the crop, telling hemp farmers they’ll have to rely on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s looming rules on hemp production. In a letter to farmers, New York Agriculture & Markets... Read more
The CBD vape market in Germany would likely decline in coming years even without new restrictions and advertising bans for the non-nicotine e-cigarettes, analysts say. According to market researchers at CBD-Intel, the German CBD vape product market – estimated at $11 million this year – is expected to decline... Read more
A Texas judge has temporarily blocked state health officials from enforcing a ban on smokable hemp. Travis County Judge Lora Livingston granted a temporary restraining order Wednesday to a group of hemp producers challenging a rule enacted by state health authorities earlier this month that blocks the manufacture and... Read more
Photo By CannabisCamera.com by Michelle Rutter Friberg, NCIA’s Deputy Director of Government Relations Over the last month, I’ve been taking a retrospective look at the progress NCIA has made in the ten years since its inception. While it’s been fun to look back at those early years, this week... Read more
by Dr. Jon Thompson, Ph.D., CEO of extraktLAB What is Operational Excellence? Operational Excellence is basically having a goal that looks far ahead to the future of what ultimate business plans should be while analyzing every aspect of the business itself. This is accomplished by using evidence-based results to... Read more
A California CBD company specializing in the smokeless dip market appointed a former Altria executive as its new CEO. Boldt Runners Corp., the exclusive licensee of Cannadips CBD, has appointed Peter Diatelevi to lead the Humboldt, California-based company and join its board of directors. Diatelevi has more than 20... Read more
Smokers Choice, a 64-store chain of tobacco retailers in Pennsylvania and New York, is adding a North Carolina hemp brand to its assortment of offerings. Two lines of hemp cigarettes from Wolf Budd Hemp Co. of Mars Hill, North Carolina, will join about six total brands of smokable hemp... Read more
A major convenience store broker has reached an agreement with a Canadian company to distribute its CBD drinks across the U.S. at gas stations including Circle K and Speedway. Kentwood, Michigan-based Shankman & Associates announced this week it had a deal with Centr Brands Corp., which recently launched its... Read more
Before Canopy Growth Corp. became the largest cannabis company in the world, it hired Ryan Douglas as its master grower in 2013. It was no small task at the time in Canada – where Ontario-based Canopy is based – because the country had just established regulations for its medical... Read more
London-based cannabis investment company World High Life says its CBD subsidiary Love Hemp has started construction on a bigger production facility. The company said the 3,500-square-foot facility will enable Love Hemp to increase production of its products including oils, cosmetics and capsules from the current 8,000 units per day... Read more
