Delaware State University has been awarded some $592,000 in a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to work with undergraduates on developing new applications for hemp. The historically black school in Dover was Delaware’s lead research agency when hemp was legal only for research purposes. After passage of... Read more
A company in Paraguay says it has shipped organic hempseed products to the United States, claiming to be the first Paraguayan and Latin American company to export foods derived from hemp to North America. Healthy Grains S.A., a hemp production and consulting firm based in Luque, outside of the... Read more
Photo courtesy Trilogene Seeds A version of this story appeared earlier on Marijuana Business Daily. An early cold snap that swept through Colorado this week drove temperatures below freezing and dumped inches of snow, potentially destroying valuable hemp plants nearing harvest. The crop damage also hit outdoor-grown marijuana and... Read more
Regulators at Australia’s Ministry of Health are one step closer to allowing over-the-counter sales of cannabidiol products. The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) said Wednesday it reached an interim decision to amend the country’s Poisons Standard and down-schedule CBD to a Schedule 3 product in oral, oral mucosal and sublingual... Read more
Europe’s main hemp lobby group says industrial cannabis could play a starring role in the European Union’s plan for a carbon-neutral economy by 2050. The European Industrial Hemp Association paper, outlines the ways that the crop can support the European Green Deal – the EU’s long-term plan to shift... Read more
Ry Russell’s company, Knot Plastics, creates plant-based bags from corn and hemp (courtesy photo). (This is an abridged version of a story that appears in the September issue of Marijuana Business Magazine.) Cannabis businesses have long struggled with the excessive packaging their products are required to use, employing extra layers of plastic and... Read more
Photo By CannabisCamera.com by Michelle Rutter Friberg, NCIA’s Deputy Director of Government Relations Over the last several weeks, I’ve been taking a retrospective look at the progress NCIA has made in the ten years since its inception. This is our last installment, detailing 2018-2019, and brings us up to... Read more
by Charlotte Peyton, Independent Consultant, EAS Consulting Group The hemp industry is the marijuana industry’s half-sister. Both are variations of the plant cannabis sativa and both were made illegal in 1937 with the passing of The Marijuana Tax Act. Flash forward to the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (known... Read more
BevCanna, a white-label CBD drinks maker in Vancouver, British Columbia, has acquired an online company in an all-stock deal worth $4.6 million (CA$6 million). The purchase of Naturally Pure Therapy Products Corp. brings the drinks maker access to new customers in the U.S., BevCanna said in a company statement.... Read more
U.S. hemp producers are alarmed about a Drug Enforcement Administration rule that they argue would make extracts a Schedule 1 controlled substance during a portion of the extraction process when the plant’s THC levels spike above what’s allowed. The rule released last month has the industry reeling and wondering... Read more
