NCIA’s #IndustryEssentials webinars are our weekly educational series featuring a variety of programs allowing us to provide you timely, engaging and essential education when & where you need it most. The Service Solutions series is our sponsored content webinar program which allows business owners the opportunity to... Read more
Video: Member Spotlight – HAL Extraction | Community / Education NCIA recently visited with our members HAL Extraction based in Golden, Colorado. While social-distancing with the team there, we learned more about their extraction rooms, booth, and labs, and how operators can get their cannabis extraction production facility up... Read more
Italy’s Health Ministry has backtracked on its decision to add ingestible, hemp-derived CBD formulas to a list of medicines in its narcotics law, issuing a decree to suspend the controversial change one day before it was due to take effect. The eleventh-hour reversal came as a decree published on... Read more
Canadian greenhouse giant Village Farms International is moving ahead with plans to take over a firm it started as a joint venture to produce marijuana and CBD in British Columbia. Village Farms, one of North America’s largest producers of greenhouse tomatoes, bell peppers and cucumbers, has approval from its... Read more
Montana has set up a free trading platform for its hemp farmers, copying an existing platform it uses for hay and pasture. Montana’s Hemp Marketplace allows people to buy and sell: hempseed. grain. fiber. flower. clones. Listings need approval from the state agriculture department, though the state doesn’t verify... Read more
Vegetable growers across the U.S. weren’t among the traditional farmers heavily diversifying into hemp production in 2020. According to a survey of 437 farmers by trade journal American Vegetable Grower, 77% said they had no intention of planting the crop this year. Just 4% of farmers said they planned... Read more
Cannabis lab technicians can make the perfect oil, but the accompanying hardware needs to be on par for the customer to have a quality experience. (Photo courtesy of The Blinc Group) (This story appears in the October issue of Marijuana Business Magazine.) Cannabis extraction companies labor over making perfectly... Read more
A tribal nation in New Mexico is suing 33 farmers for allegedly violating sovereign law by growing hemp and marijuana. In the second hemp-related lawsuit filed by the Navajo Nation, the tribal nation accuses farmers of possessing or controlling Navajo lands that are being used to illegally grow, produce,... Read more
(A version of this story first appeared at Marijuana Business Daily.) A Bahamas committee charged with laying out an economic recovery plan recommends the country legalize hemp and hemp extracts. Presented last week, the Economic Recovery Committee report also calls on the nation to legalize marijuana. The recommendations were... Read more
One of the largest convenience-store chains in North America has tapped a California CBD firm to expand its portfolio of CBD products in the southeastern United States. Circle K says it has brought Newport Beach’s Wild By Nature tinctures and vaporizers to more than 150 stores in Florida and... Read more