by Erin Lemmons, Eolàs Human Resources Photo Credit: Cannaclusive Our world in 2020 looks vastly different from years past, and we have been ripped open and exposed as a human population, with the birth of COVID-19, the protests and riots resulting from brutality, and the belief that our systems... Read more
A few health and consumer advocacy organizations are urging Congress “to reject any attempts to force federal regulators” to legalize CBD immediately. In a June 17 letter to Congress members, the organizations say Congress itself “is not the right evaluator of the safety of consumer products” because representatives and... Read more
Louisiana penalties for the possession and sale of all smokable hemp products, alcoholic beverages containing CBD and food and beverages containing CBD are now in effect. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards signed the hemp limits into law earlier this month. Louisiana created an industrial hemp program last June, but... Read more
ACS Laboratory, a chain of federally licensed and ISO-accredited marijuana and hemp laboratories based in Tampa, Florida, has acquired another Florida-based, certified hemp and CBD testing laboratory, expanding its national presence to 44 states. The purchase of Botanica Testing Inc., headquartered in Gainesville, brings 500 new hemp and CBD... Read more
Photo courtesy 40 Acre Co-op As Black farm ownership hits historic lows, Minnesota entrepreneur Angela Dawson thinks hemp could be part of the solution. And she’s looking to an old-fashioned model – cooperative farming – to do it. Dawson left a career in food writing and marketing to start... Read more
Canadian hemp company Sweet Earth Holdings Corp. has named former politician Amrik Virk as its new president. The company said in a news release that Virk will also be joining the board of Sweet Earth. Virk has previously held senior positions in Canadian government, including Minister of Advanced Education... Read more
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said a hemp company is investing more than $3 million to build the state’s first large-scale processing facility for extracting CBD oil. BRD Extraction, LLC will be located in the town of South Boston in Halifax County and will do business as Blue Ribbon Extraction.... Read more
New regulations clarifying the types of hemp and CBD products that are legal to sell and purchase in Iowa took effect with the enactment of the Hemp Consumer and Public Safety law on Wednesday. The law changes certain provisions of the Iowa Hemp Act, which Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds... Read more
by Merril Gilbert, CEO of Trace Trust and David Vaillencourt, CEO of The GMP Collective In our last article, we discussed the benefits of Good Manufacturing Practices as a means to increase productivity, efficiency, and to drive accountability within an organization. With cannabis and hemp businesses negatively impacted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic,... Read more
Aloha! My name is Kaliko Castille and I am the Marketing Director here at NCIA. My name Kaliko is Hawaiian and means “the bud that blossoms”. It was the name given to my Dad when he was still living in Hawai’i and dancing hula under a well-known kumu hula... Read more
