Domestic US hemp crop nears 10,000 acre mark
Nearly 10,000 acres of domestic US hemp were planted across 15 states in 2016, 817 hemp cultivation licenses were issued, 30 universities conducted research on cannabis sativa as an agricultural and...
View ArticleCalifornians hope for hemp farms in spring
Dozens of people came to a Southern California hemp importer’s warehouse to look at products and support the domestic farming of industrial hemp. Proposition 64, passed by the voters in 2016,...
View ArticleColorado activist Laura Kriho, founded hemp academy
The Cannabis Hemp Academy announced with great regret the death of its founder, Laura Kriho, who passed peacefully on January 30, 2017, surrounded by her loving family and friends. Laura was a well...
View ArticleHemp industries back in court to stop DEA prohibition creep
After losing a pivotal case all the way to the US Supreme Court earlier this Century and getting slapped down there and partially defunded by Congress for administrative over-reach, one might expect a...
View ArticleUS hemp product sales hit $688 million
An industry watchdog survey has released its final estimates of the size of the 2016 U.S. retail market for hemp products, and it’s good news for domestic hemp producers. A surge in CBD-containing...
View ArticleHemp planting set for May 24 in Washington State
It’s been nearly a century in the making, but this May will bring with it the first legal planting of the versatile, valuable industrial hemp oilseed and fiber crop in Washington State in approximately...
View ArticleCBD producer sources hemp to comply with DEA
As theLeafOnline readers may recall, the federal DEA included a section (21 CFR Part 1308) in the December 14, 2016 Federal Register, changing the language in its current drug code regarding...
View ArticleEighth annual Hemp History Week set for 2017
It’s time to celebrate the illustrious history of the cannabis plant in the USA, where once presidents farmed hemp and Thomas Jefferson lauded it as “first necessity to commerce and the marine and...
View ArticleHemp History Week: Soap maker sponsors PA research
The Rodale Institute, the nation’s leading organic farming research institution, has one of only 16 research projects to be awarded a state permit to participate in the first hemp planting in...
View ArticleStreamlined Hempfest at the crossroads of legalization
As we stand at the threshold of the 26th annual Seattle Hempfest, I find myself thinking about our American freedoms. Like Freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of petition. Our freedoms...
View ArticleDetailed analysis of California SB 94 changes
California Governor Edmund Brown’s office submitted a bill to the state legislature to clarify, consolidate and modify the state’s ever more complex set of cannabis laws and regulations. His bill was...
View ArticleProposed bill to improve federal hemp law
Congressional delegates as far to the right as Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell have backed the return of hemp as an American farm crop, but obstacles persist. Many of these problems come from federal...
View ArticleHIA brings global industry to Kentucky hemp fields
The Hemp Industries Association took the federal DEA back to court earlier this year and then brought hundreds of people to the Kentucky hemp fields this Fall for a field trip the day before the 2017...
View ArticleUS Hemp cultivation more than doubles in 2017
Domestic hemp production more than doubled from 2016 to 2017, according to data compiled by the advocacy organization Vote Hemp, which is dedicated to changing state and federal laws to allow...
View ArticleWisconsin lawmakers give unanimous approval to hemp
Get ready to see more emerald fields of cannabis hemp in America’s Midwestern farm belt. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker signed legislation into law November 30, making the crop’s approval unanimous....
View ArticleHemp industry decries Sessions’ new weed war
The Hemp Industries Association, the leading non-profit trade association for 24 years representing hundreds of hemp businesses, has announced that the January 4 announcement by US Attorney General...
View ArticleHemp supporters lament slow progress in CA
“It’s been 14 months since Prop. 64 passed,” said one frustrated potential hemp farmer. “Adult use marijuana stores are open around the state and yet we don’t even have a clear process to get hemp seed...
View ArticleCongressmen step up for hemp
Four US Congressmen, Senators Rand Paul, (R-KY) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Representatives Jared Polis (D-CO) and Tom Massie (R-KY), stepped up to defend cannabis hemp farmers and businesses January 18,...
View ArticleOaksterdam to host hemp business workshop
As California shifts into hemp production, the California Hemp Association will present California Hemp Business Workshop, a one-day workshop on industrial hemp in the state. The day-long workshop...
View ArticlePlant-derived CBD import given “priority review”
The federal government is not ready to accept the medical science on the safety and efficacy of cannabis and the DEA and Attorney General Jeff Sessions are threatening a crack down on patients and...
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