As CBD drug Epidiolex moves through FDA’s approval pipeline, the GW Pharmaceuticals product developed for treating certain types of epilepsy is watched cautiously by the hemp industry and optimistically by the medical community.
Denver Post editorial: Hemp as a crop holds boundless promise for farmers and doesn’t get anyone high, so why is the federal government holding back on hemp farming?
The Colorado hemp market has grown exponentially since it became legal, and farmers this year are expected to harvest 9,000 acres – up from 200 acres in 2014.
There’s a lot of expectation invested in a few acres of hemp growing on the edge of the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota.
Eli Harrington thinks holding the first-ever Vermont Hemp Festival in the rural, remote Northeast Kingdom makes perfect sense.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers are again calling for industrial hemp to be legally separated from marijuana in the Controlled Substances Act, and advocates believe they might just have the political momentum to succeed.
A giant summertime festival celebrating all things marijuana has drawn support or at least toleration over the years from officials in Seattle, the largest city in one of the first states to legalize recreational pot.
A bill in the Illinois General Assembly that would allow hemp to be grown legally in the state could mark a major shift for medical marijuana growers if approved.
JD Farms in upstate New York is the state’s first legal hemp farm in decades, and the two men behind it are betting big on their crop and the many ways to eat it, from hemp seed oil and flour to adding young hemp leaves to salad mixes
West Virginians can now apply for a license to grow industrial hemp for commercial purposes, and some pioneers already are into their second growing season.
CW Hemp CEO Joel Stanley: “The DEA’s opinions are needlessly causing panic and fear.”
In a time of vibrant debate on cannabis legalization and in the wake of a new federal rule on marijuana extracts, the Drug Enforcement Administration has stood firm on its position that marijuana and its derivatives remain illicit. The DEA has made several statements to The Cannabist in recent months…
Kim Phillips has been denied access to water by the Helena Valley Irrigation District because her plants are ineligible for federally controlled water.
As North Dakota’s hemp industry grows, legal questions have kept producers from making one of the crop’s most desirable products: cannabidiol (CBD) oil.
While marijuana legalization gets the headlines, hemp shows potential for explosive growth in sectors ranging from the auto industry to pharmaceuticals.
A new law declares Colorado water rights-holders can grow industrial hemp, even if their water is stored in a federal Bureau of Reclamation facility.
The U.S. remains the largest consumer market for hemp products worldwide, but hemp remains illegal under federal law as a dangerous Schedule I substance.
It’s Hemp History Week: Activists, politicians and scientists are helping rehab hemp’s rep, while touting its potential economic and environmental benefits
Use of hemp as a construction material is part of the revival of the crop in America, thanks to entrepreneurs who are thinking big — and small, including a Colorado firm that hosts workshops on hempcrete and builds tiny hemp houses.
A congressional spending bill to fund U.S. government through September includes provisions protecting industrial hemp and state medical marijuana programs.
Hemp Industries Association director Colleen Keahey and Ojai Energetics founder Will Kleidon discuss CBD-only laws, marijuana-infused products and more.
Hemp Industries Association director Colleen Keahey and Ojai Energetics founder Will Kleidon discuss CBD-only laws, marijuana-infused products and more.
Lawyers representing the Hemp Industries Association and hemp businesses have filed an opening brief in a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals case against the Drug Enforcement Administration.
