The board of directors at MassRoots, the cannabis-focused technology and social media giant, has fired CEO and founder Isaac Dietrich amid financial difficulties plaguing the Denver company. The move was first reported by Benzinga. MassRoots has been suffering from a...
By Kristen Nichols
Dozens of states are slowly experimenting with industrial hemp cultivation and processing, authorizing limited tests through land-grant universities. Not North Carolina.
North Carolina has gone all in on hemp, which state officials see as a natural fit for an economy once dominated by tobacco farming and textile manufacturing.
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Producers and retailers of CBD products have a few more days to try to discourage international health regulators from classifying the substance as a psychotropic drug.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced last month it wants comments about CBD to send to the World Health Organization. The deadline for comments has been extended a week to midnight ET Sept. 20.
The FDA plans to forward the comments to the WHO without recommending an action.
An Anchorage cannabis clinic is reporting that thieves at the Alaska State Fair stole some $10,000 worth of hemp-based edibles and tinctures from its booth, underscoring the risks for businesses displaying pricey CBD merchandise at such venues. ReLeaf Alaska and the...
By Matt Lamers Cronos Group is partnering with an Israeli collective settlement to grow medical marijuana in northern Israel, becoming what is believed to be the first Canadian MMJ producer to establish a production facility overseas for global exports. The...
What’s happening in the cannabis industry, both in the U.S. and abroad.
National and international news developments in the cannabis industry.
By Margaret Jackson South Carolina is gearing up to become the latest state to allow hemp cultivation, a move that's expected to create opportunities for farmers, makers of hemp-based products and ancillary companies offering goods and services to those growing and...
Vermont Gov. Phil Scott vetoed legislation Wednesday that would have legalized consumption and home cultivation of recreational marijuana, dashing hopes the state would be the first in the nation to approve adult-use cannabis through the Legislature. But Scott, a...
The FBI says a Michigan restaurant owner was willing to pay bribes to suburban Detroit officials to try to get them to allow him to open a medical marijuana dispensary. The disclosure was made in a document filed this week in federal court....
A federal appeals court in San Francisco sidestepped making a ruling on whether U.S. prison officials can hold a cannabis business owner who was convicted of marijuana offenses that were legal under state medical marijuana laws. In a decision...
