Seven companies have applied to sell low-THC medical marijuana at 21 separate locations in Iowa. The state is expected to grant licenses for five locations next month.  Applicants paid a $5,000 fee for each application and won't be able to open until early 2019, the...
A California company that markets and distributes marijuana and hemp is making a play for convenience stores. Marijuana Company of America, a holding company with stakes in hemp and marijuana, is launching a line of CBD topicals, tinctures and edibles in sample sizes....
A major hemp industry group in Europe wants to see higher THC limits to meet the threshold in the United States and Canada. The European Industrial Hemp Association, based in Huerth, Germany, called on EU regulators to raise hemp’s THC limit from 0.2% to 0.3%. The...
Nevada CBD manufacturer Leafceuticals is expanding into topicals and edibles with the $2.2 million acquisition of California’s Irie CBD products. The acquisition gives Leafceuticals a processing plant in Oakland, California, for expanding its CBD line. The agreement...
North Carolina’s top hemp regulator is sick of interference from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler said in a speech at the Southern Farm Show in Raleigh last week that the federal drug agency is not supposed to use any...
Two state legislatures scrapped legislation to expand CBD access and allow hemp production. Idaho and Indiana lawmakers said "no thanks" to bills that initially appeared headed toward approval, both at the apparent urging of Republican governors. Republicans also...
Drug charges against 19 business owners selling CBD products in the Nashville suburbs have been dismissed in what hemp advocates are calling a huge win for the state's new cannabidiol industry. The business owners were accused of selling illegal drugs, and 23 shops...
Massachusetts defers recreational marijuana delivery and onsite consumption, Arkansas approves five medical cannabis cultivators, and Washington state grants its floundering hemp program a reprieve. Here’s a closer look at some notable developments in the marijuana...
Kentucky checks all the boxes for nourishing a hemp revival.
Climate suited to the plant? Check. Friendly regulations from a state willing to experiment and invest in hemp? Check.
Lots of cheap land and a processing infrastructure that includes in-state decortication and CBD extractors? Check and check.
So why do some agronomists fear that Kentucky has reached its hemp zenith?
Cameron Forni, co-founder and president of Cura Cannabis Solutions in Portland, Oregon, shares business tips.
By Kristen Nichols Jeff Sessions may have done the hemp industry a huge favor. When the U.S. attorney general talks tough on marijuana, he’s also giving the hemp industry a road map to unlock the plant’s true market potential. Hear me out. Sessions’ saber-rattling...
A North Carolina company is making the cannabis industry’s first play for consumers of color with a line of beauty products aimed at ethnic minorities. The Hemp Excellence line of body lotions, lip balms and CBD capsules went on sale this month at two beauty shops...
