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Hemp State Highlight: North Carolina puts out big welcome mat for hemp industry
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.
What’s Happening: October 2017
National and international news developments in the cannabis industry.
Deadline looms for businesses to submit comments to FDA on CBD
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.
Cannabis industry developments in the U.S. and globally
What’s happening in the cannabis industry, both in the U.S. and abroad.
What’s Happening
National and international news developments in the cannabis industry.