December 20th, 2018 - Finally, 81 years after the United States Government began a prohibition on the lowly hemp plant, the 2018 Farm Bill, signed today by Donald Trump, removes hemp from the Controlled Substances Act. Woody Harrelson should be proud. While...
August 14th, 2018 - The Canadian Hemp Trade Alliance (CHTA) announced that on August 10th, Hon. Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Minister of Health, and officials at Health Canada issued a decision to allow industrial hemp farmers to undertake whole plant harvest...
May 2nd. 2018 - A federal appeals court this week dealt a blow to makers of CBD-rich cannabis extracts who were trying to stop the Drug Enforcement Administration from considering their products as dangerous drugs. On April 30th, the Ninth Circuit...
March 26th, 2018 - Kentucky - Mitch McConnell, the U.S. Senate’s top leader said Monday he wants to bring hemp production back into the mainstream by removing it from the controlled substances list that now associates it with its cousin – marijuana. Senate...
February 15th, 2018 - The Hemp Industries Association is taking the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to court in a high-stakes case that will decide the future of CBD sales in the U.S. The suit is in response to the DEA's position that CBD is a marijuana...
May 17th, 2017 - The University of Louisville’s Conn Center for Renewable Energy is planting more hemp this year at the school’s Belknap Campus. This is officially the center’s second hemp crop — the first was planted last August and yielded...
June 1st, 2016 - Canada’s hemp industry is demanding the federal government liberate it from antiquated regulations, a move it says couldhelp revive interest in Ontario production and processing. Despite no health safety concerns, since it was legalized...
By - Associated Press - Friday, April 8, 2016 BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - A state Agriculture Department official is planning a trip north to get the seeds for North Dakota’s first crop of industrial hemp. Three farming operations in three counties will...
The Colorado Department of Agriculture is hoping to help bring hemp into the limelight with a new program that's a first for the country. THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 2016 AT 9:52 A.M. Under its brand-new seed certification program, created in conjunction...
Kentucky hemp was king before steamships, free trade and reefer madness FEBRUARY 21, 2016 4:10 PM BY TOM EBLEN teblen@herald-leader.com Hemp has been branded an outlaw for decades because it looks like its mind-altering botanical cousin, marijuana....
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