New Frontier Data, a market-analysis firm that caters to the marijuana industry, is expanding its focus to hemp with the purchase of Hemp Business Journal. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed. New Frontier is headquartered in Washington DC but has a Denver office....
Far from the flashy marijuana dispensaries in Las Vegas, hemp farms in rural northern and southern Nevada can’t keep up with booming demand for flower for CBD production.
The result is a blazing-hot wholesale market for hemp flower, with growers reporting prices of up to $350 a pound for quality, high-CBD varieties.
Hemp may be easy to grow, but raising a profitable crop is no slam dunk. That's what a Vermont hemp processor is learning after a landowner sued him for not delivering thousands of dollars she was hoping would save her mother's home. A lawsuit filed in a state court...
A raft of CBD-related measures are advancing in conservative states where lawmakers seem unwilling to wait for federal courts to decide the legal fate of cannabis-derived treatments low in THC. Kansas lawmakers are looking at giving CBD legal cover, a week after the...
If hemp fiber is so strong and easy to grow, why is so much of it moldering in barns awaiting a buyer? Two hemp companies say they have the answer, and they plan to bring it to farmers who can't find buyers for hemp's tough stalks. HempLogic in Washington state and...
Many cannabis users have four legs – but cracking the market for pet CBD treatments isn’t as easy as slapping a paw print on a product By Kristen Nichols You may know dogs that need cannabis. They freak out when they hear thunder or fireworks. They flop pitifully in...
CEO of The Source dispensaries and Nevada Organic Remedies, and president of the Nevada Dispensaries Association by Kristen Nichols What was your biggest business “aha” moment? It was at the moment our state decided to commercialize the marijuana industry – when the...
Why it’s a silly waste of time to separate hemp from marijuana By Kristen Nichols It looked like a typo. But it turned out to be the biggest dilemma facing the emerging hemp industry. Iowa’s largest newspaper was writing about that state’s new CBD law and how the...
Canada’s global cannabis-buying spree is moving to Uruguay. Vancouver, British Columbia-based Cannabis Wheaton announced Tuesday that it plans to spend up to $15 million to acquire 80% of Inverell shares. Based in Uruguaya's capital,...
A western Colorado town is changing its land development rules to allow CBD extraction from hemp, a change prompted by a hemp grower who appealed zoning rules that allowed him to grow hemp but not process it. David Cox, who is licensed to grow 100 acres of hemp,...
Federal confusion about CBD and hemp is giving state lawmakers in three of the most conservative parts of the country a reason to back cannabis legislation that addresses the cannabidiol conundrum.
Indiana’s Senate voted this week to legalize all CBD oil products in Indiana that contain up to 0.3% THC, Indianapolis TV station WTHR reported.
Ontario-based Maricann plans to acquire a hemp farm in Switzerland for 8 million Swiss francs ($8.5 million), making the Canadian medical marijuana producer the latest to seek a toehold in the lucrative European hemp market Maricann announced...
