by Michelle Rutter Friberg, NCIA’s Deputy Director of Government Relations Last week, NCIA’s Government Relations team honored the veteran community and Memorial Day through our latest #IndustryEssentials webinar. Our Director of Government Relations, Mike Correia, and I “Zoomed” with congressional cannabis champions Congressman Lou Correa (D-CA) and Congressman Earl... Read more
by Mark Slaugh, CEO and Co-Founder of iComply, LLC Operational cannabis compliance has been a vital but often ignored part of many owners’ guides to success. With the hustle and bustle that is the ever-expanding nature of the cannabis business, most owners and operators want to believe they are... Read more
When you have no idea where you’re going, your instinct is to look back. That’s why global upheaval caused by the coronavirus pandemic has everyone looking to the past for guidance. We search for clues in the Spanish flu pandemic of the 20th century—and the bubonic plague of the 14th century—hoping to draw lessons... Read more
CV Sciences, a San Diego-based CBD manufacturer, won’t face a labeling lawsuit until federal health authorities decide how to regulate over-the-counter CBD, a federal judge has ruled. The decision makes California’s Virginia Phillips the second federal judge to delay a CBD class-action attempt because the U.S. Food and Drug Administration... Read more
A U.S. hemp standards group has added a former state attorney general and a former FDA official to the organization’s board. The appointments of former Arkansas attorney general Dustin McDaniel and Larisa Pavlick were announced Thursday by the U.S. Hemp Authority Board, a self-regulating organization. Pavlick currently serves as... Read more
Hemp Industry Daily’s sister publication and parent organization Marijuana Business Daily has launched two cannabis-related discussion groups on Leafwire, a LinkedIn-style digital service for hemp and marijuana industry professionals. One group focuses on international marijuana business news; the other shares stories about the hemp industry. The two groups will bring... Read more
I was born and raised in the far south of Brazil, drinking yerba mate, listening to rock, going to the beach, and eating lots of BBQ! The war on drugs was fought hard in our streets, and we all remember the guns, the violence, that “social pain” growing up. I... Read more
Hemp production in 2019 wasn’t as simple or as profitable as many growers anticipated, as production costs far outpaced profits in most cases. Many traditional farmers who added the crop in 2019 expected to grow it fast and furious like other commodities. Many who used existing equipment found hemp... Read more
A Chinese business that planned to buy a hemp food company from Australian-based Elixinol Global, a CBD producer, has pulled out of the deal, citing economic impacts from COVID-19. Sydney-based Elixinol had worked on an agreement for Yunnan Luxin Biopharmeceutical to buy Elixinol’s Hemp Foods Australia, but the Chinese... Read more
Another CBD company has issued a voluntary product recall after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration flagged it for making unsubstantiated claims. Biota Biosciences, a Seattle-based CBD manufacturer, is recalling lots from three injectable products sold by distributors to consumers that were being marketed without FDA approval: Cannabidiol (CBD)... Read more
