A quartet of French industry groups has criticized the European Commission’s preliminary view that CBD should be regulated as a narcotic, warning that producers, manufacturers and consumers would all face “dramatic repercussions” if the stance is made official. Syndicat Professionnel du Chanvre, an association of cannabis producers, processors and... Read more
Two North American business groups signed a memorandum of understanding to support Canadian and American companies seeking to capitalize on the growth of the international cannabis market. The agreement between the Canadian Chamber of Commerce’s International Cannabis Council and the American Trade Association for Cannabis and Hemp (ATACH) will... Read more
The hemp industry has seen its share of struggles and growing pains over the past year, but it’s also witnessed a year full of changes and forward progress. After the 2018 Farm Bill made hemp a legal commodity and took the plant off the list of controlled substances in... Read more
Over-the-counter CBD isn’t legal and continues to worry federal drug regulators as more people take it and give it to animals, a lawyer for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Friday. Randall Gnatt, senior counsel at the FDA, told the nation’s veterinarians that the FDA thinks there are... Read more
Mexico’s president says he won’t interfere with legislation to legalize marijuana and hemp when the country’s Congress takes up the bill next month. The comments from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador during a news conference Wednesday are significant because he previously indicated his administration’s focus was on regulating hemp... Read more
Colorado-based CBD extractor and private-label supplier Mile High Labs has entered a distribution deal with a subsidiary of a major UK convenience store group for its own consumer brand. The distribution agreement for Mile High’s CBD brand Mellow Greens was struck with Nisa Retail, which is owned by The... Read more
Draft legislation that would allow Brazilian farmers to grow cannabis for medical and industrial purposes on domestic soil for the first time has been submitted to the country’s lower house of Congress. The bill was delivered to the House of Deputies speaker this week by lawmakers Paulo Teixeira and... Read more
Hemp advocates have been sending their own recommendations to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to try to direct the agency’s enforcement discretion policy for CBD products. The latest hemp group weighing in is the National Industrial Hemp Council, which filed comments with the agency this week emphasizing the... Read more
One of the nation’s largest chained retailers of health supplements, Vitamin Shoppe, is leaning into its CBD experiment with expanded plans to carry more ingestibles and topicals. The retailer says that strong demand prompted a move to ratchet up CBD displays in some 572 locations in 39 states, plus... Read more
A labeling lawsuit accusing American Shaman CBD of falsely claiming its products were free of heavy metals has been dismissed from federal court – but the plaintiff plans to revive the lawsuit in Florida court. U.S. District Judge William Dimitrouleas on Tuesday approved the plaintiff’s motion to dismiss the... Read more
