Toronto CBD manufacturer Heavenly Rx is extending its expansion strategy to Arizona, saying Tuesday it has acquired a majority stake in PureKana, a privately held CBD maker in Paradise Valley. Terms of the deal were not released. PureKana makes CBD oils, gummies and topicals, all of which will remain... Read more

The owner of a CBD store in Brooklyn, New York, has claimed a shipment of hemp that was seized by the New York Police Department last month when officers confused it with marijuana. Oren Levy, who owns Green Angel CBD, said his brother Ronen picked up the 106 pounds... Read more

A Pennsylvania hemp-processing center that was closed after repeat air-quality warnings from the state has been fined and given permission to reopen on a limited basis. Under the terms of a Dec. 24 agreement with the state, the Jeannette facility owned by Patriot Shield Security will be fined $29,000... Read more

Relative hemp newcomers Louisiana, New Jersey and Ohio have leapfrogged states with more established hemp programs in winning first approval for their 2020 regulations. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said Friday that those three states are the first with approved hemp regulations. The three plan to allow commercial cultivation for the... Read more

The desert Southwest could become a critical hemp-producing area for the United States, according to a longtime hemp educator in the University of Nevada system. In this special episode of News & Views – recorded at MJBizCon in Las Vegas – Marysia Morawska, who oversees hemp projects with the University of... Read more

Police in South Carolina have seized a shipment of 183 pounds of cannabis, believing it to be marijuana, but a hemp distributor said the product is hemp. Glen McDonald, a distributor from Texas, said he paid $20,000-$30,000 for 70 to 100 pounds of hemp from Bio Lab Global, a... Read more