Canadian cannabis producer Hexo Corp. and brewer Molson Coors Canada have launched new beverage products under their Truss Beverage Co. joint venture, marking increased competition in Canada’s much-hyped marijuana beverage market. The lineup of five drink brands unveiled Tuesday includes both CBD and THC products. All will be sold... Read more
Mexico is heading down two paths toward legalization of both hemp and marijuana simultaneously. The first is legislatively driven and would legalize cannabis for all uses. The second legalized both plants for medical use in 2017, but the government has failed to meet deadlines to establish a regulatory structure.... Read more
(Editor’s note: This is part of an occasional series on California’s hemp industry. To read the previous installment, click here.) A long-simmering dispute over hemp and CBD legislation in California is coming to a head, with a compromise bill possible this week. There isn’t much time. The race is on... Read more
A hemp processor facing fines in western Pennsylvania over odor complaints abandoned its troubled drying facility, according to state environmental regulators. The Patriot Shield operation in Jeannette, near Pittsburgh, was cleared of equipment, the state Department of Environmental Protection told the Tribune-Review newspaper Tuesday. The agency fined the company... Read more
Hemp face masks are “one of the best” ways to battle the spread of Covid-19, according to U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell. McConnell held up a black facial covering made of hemp Monday while touring an Ecofibre hemp factory in Georgetown, Kentucky. McConnell recommended masks and social distancing... Read more
A quartet of French industry groups has criticized the European Commission’s preliminary view that CBD should be regulated as a narcotic, warning that producers, manufacturers and consumers would all face “dramatic repercussions” if the stance is made official. Syndicat Professionnel du Chanvre, an association of cannabis producers, processors and... Read more
Two North American business groups signed a memorandum of understanding to support Canadian and American companies seeking to capitalize on the growth of the international cannabis market. The agreement between the Canadian Chamber of Commerce’s International Cannabis Council and the American Trade Association for Cannabis and Hemp (ATACH) will... Read more
The hemp industry has seen its share of struggles and growing pains over the past year, but it’s also witnessed a year full of changes and forward progress. After the 2018 Farm Bill made hemp a legal commodity and took the plant off the list of controlled substances in... Read more
Over-the-counter CBD isn’t legal and continues to worry federal drug regulators as more people take it and give it to animals, a lawyer for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Friday. Randall Gnatt, senior counsel at the FDA, told the nation’s veterinarians that the FDA thinks there are... Read more
Mexico’s president says he won’t interfere with legislation to legalize marijuana and hemp when the country’s Congress takes up the bill next month. The comments from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador during a news conference Wednesday are significant because he previously indicated his administration’s focus was on regulating hemp... Read more
