Out-of-control wildfires in Oregon have caused the state’s agriculture school to delay a virtual event to show off its 2020 research on hemp. Oregon State University has delayed its first Oregon Hemp Field Day by a week, from Sept. 16 to Sept. 23. The school says the first hour... Read more
A Texas judge is scheduled to hear arguments Monday on blocking a ban on smokable hemp. Travis County Judge Lora Livingston last month granted a temporary restraining order to a group of hemp producers challenging a rule enacted by state health authorities that blocks the manufacture and sale of... Read more
Delaware State University has been awarded some $592,000 in a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to work with undergraduates on developing new applications for hemp. The historically black school in Dover was Delaware’s lead research agency when hemp was legal only for research purposes. After passage of... Read more
A company in Paraguay says it has shipped organic hempseed products to the United States, claiming to be the first Paraguayan and Latin American company to export foods derived from hemp to North America. Healthy Grains S.A., a hemp production and consulting firm based in Luque, outside of the... Read more
Photo courtesy Trilogene Seeds A version of this story appeared earlier on Marijuana Business Daily. An early cold snap that swept through Colorado this week drove temperatures below freezing and dumped inches of snow, potentially destroying valuable hemp plants nearing harvest. The crop damage also hit outdoor-grown marijuana and... Read more
Regulators at Australia’s Ministry of Health are one step closer to allowing over-the-counter sales of cannabidiol products. The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) said Wednesday it reached an interim decision to amend the country’s Poisons Standard and down-schedule CBD to a Schedule 3 product in oral, oral mucosal and sublingual... Read more
Europe’s main hemp lobby group says industrial cannabis could play a starring role in the European Union’s plan for a carbon-neutral economy by 2050. The European Industrial Hemp Association paper, outlines the ways that the crop can support the European Green Deal – the EU’s long-term plan to shift... Read more
Ry Russell’s company, Knot Plastics, creates plant-based bags from corn and hemp (courtesy photo). (This is an abridged version of a story that appears in the September issue of Marijuana Business Magazine.) Cannabis businesses have long struggled with the excessive packaging their products are required to use, employing extra layers of plastic and... Read more
BevCanna, a white-label CBD drinks maker in Vancouver, British Columbia, has acquired an online company in an all-stock deal worth $4.6 million (CA$6 million). The purchase of Naturally Pure Therapy Products Corp. brings the drinks maker access to new customers in the U.S., BevCanna said in a company statement.... Read more
U.S. hemp producers are alarmed about a Drug Enforcement Administration rule that they argue would make extracts a Schedule 1 controlled substance during a portion of the extraction process when the plant’s THC levels spike above what’s allowed. The rule released last month has the industry reeling and wondering... Read more
