It was no ordinary White House news conference.
It started with a video from the 2006 Emmy Awards of President Donald Trump singing the theme song from the 1960s sitcom “Green Acres,” which showcased a wealthy New York City couple who decamp to the countryside to operate a ramshackle farm.
Trump then signed the 2018 Farm Bill.
The Farm Bill’s passage presents marijuana cultivators, extractors, manufacturers and retailers with a boatload of federally legal business opportunities by way of hemp-derived CBD. But the pivot from a mainly marijuana company to a CBD company is fraught with...
RETAIL: Five Tips for Landing Distribution Deals The passage of the Farm Bill has hemp-derived product manufacturers exploring distribution deals that will move their merchandise beyond local head shops and into mainstream retail outlets. Suddenly, widespread...
Cannabis entrepreneurs say they're facing jail time and hefty legal fees because of the plant's complicated biology, with the vaunted 2018 Farm Bill only muddling the picture for interstate commerce. A pair of cases in Idaho and Oklahoma raised questions about how...
The old debate about what to call the plant cannabis sativa L. is giving businesses real-world headaches in both new and established marijuana markets. Consider: Iowa allows medical marijuana but calls it something else. Texas restricts medical marijuana so severely...
Iowa’s five CBD dispensaries open for business Saturday to serve roughly 1,000 patients in one of the nation’s most limited medical cannabis markets.
A Colorado marijuana grower wins a milestone racketeering case, MedMen seeks a trademark for the word "cannabis," and California issues its first full annual MJ business licenses. Here’s a closer look at some notable developments in the marijuana industry this week....
If it seems you’re seeing CBD everywhere these days, you are.
CBD products are in grocery stores, convenience stores and chiropractic offices. The letters are splashed across storefronts even in the most cannabis-averse jurisdictions – such as Kansas and South Carolina.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has taken some cannabidiol off the most restrictive class of controlled substances, a move that allows the sale of the first nonsynthetic, cannabis-derived medicine to win federal approval.
It’s a decision that immediately affects CBD producers but also signals the agency’s first admission that the plant has medical value.
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Ohio bans CBD sales outside of marijuana stores – which aren’t even open yet – California regulators take legal action against two unlicensed MJ businesses, and the Nevada cannabis market tops half a billion dollars in sales during its first year.
Here’s a closer look at some notable developments in the cannabis industry this week.
CBD beverage sales boom, as producers focus on taste and packaging to fuel consumer demand By Kristen Nichols As CBD transitions from dispensaries to health-food outlets, smoothie bars and convenience stores, the supplement is moving out of the dropper bottle and into...
