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....
Oregon expects to issue new industrial hemp licenses this winter Oregon's industrial hemp industry is off to a slow start, but interest remains strong. Eric Mortenson Capital Press Published on January 11, 2016 9:59AM The...
New Jersey Bill to Legalize Industrial Hemp, Effectively Nullify Federal Ban, Passes Assembly Committee, 6-0 TRENTON, NJ. (Dec. 15, 2015) – Last week, a New Jersey Assembly committee passed a bill to authorize the farming,...
November 19th, 2015 - Consumer advocate Ralph Nader believes marijuana legalization holds the potential to be a "massive gift to society", so long as the industry gets the regulations right. And believe it or not, the fate of the planet may well rest...
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