Kentucky: Planting First Hemp Crop In 200 Years
One of Louisville's most historic sites has gone back to the future. Locust Grove is helping give new life to an old industry.
At one...
Hemp History Week Sparks Movement In Kentucky
Marijuana’s misunderstood cousin is making a comeback in Kentucky and on a local level.
In 2013, the Bluegrass State became the first to legalize hemp...
Hemp Industry Entering Second Full Growing Season
The newly legal hemp industry is entering its second growing season with some big questions for producers experimenting with marijuana’s non-intoxicating cousin.
The federal government...
Nullification Of Federal Hemp Ban In Colorado
Practical nullification of federal hemp laws in Colorado continues its march forward with the opening of the first large-scale industrial hemp processing plant.
Farmers in...
Pennsylvania: Support For Industrial Hemp Grows
After more than a 40 year absence, the growth of industrial hemp may be coming back to Pennsylvania as lawmakers and farmers push the...
Indiana: Purdue Ready To Plant Legal Hemp
Ronald Turco has conducted critical research in his 30 years at Purdue University but his current project is the first to be vetted by...
Kentucky: Hemp Will Contribute To The Landscape Of The State
With industrial hemp helping define the future economic landscape of Kentucky, Freedom Seed and Feed, LLC has partnered with the University of Pikeville to...
Cars Made & Powered By Hemp Are The Future
For decades, oil and automobile companies dominated the global market, with little remorse for the ecological consequences of petroleum-based industries, as well as little...
World’s First Hemp Plane To Take Off
Canadian company Hempearth is producing the world’s first hemp plane. That’s right, an aircraft made almost entirely out of hemp. At least 75% of...
Lawmakers Move To Legalize U.S. Industrial Hemp Industry
Congressional leaders are moving full steam ahead to finally make hemp a legitimate agricultural crop in the United States. Lawmakers introduced the bipartisan Industrial...
Opinion: Hemp Harvest Legal In Colorado For First Time
Boosters of industrial hemp often fondly refer to the plant as a wonder crop, usable in everything from building materials to batteries to breakfast...
Senator Outlines Hemp Legalization In Tennessee
The grass might be getting a little greener in Tennessee. Sen. Frank Niceley, republican member of the Tennessee Senate, presented Monday night on newly...
Hemp A Huge Missed Opportunity For The U.S.
For more than five decades, industrial hemp has suffered mis-classification because of its resemblance to marijuana. Both are members of the cannabis family, but...
University Of Kentucky Harvests Hemp Crop
A hemp crop years in the making in the halls of the Kentucky legislature and the U.S. Congress took only a few minutes to...
Kentucky’s First Industrial Hemp Crop In Decades Shows Promise For Future
By all indications, the state’s first industrial hemp crop in decades appears to have been successful. That’s despite the fact that, this past spring,...
Hemp Fibers ‘Better Than Graphene’
They "cooked" cannabis bark into carbon nanosheets and built supercapacitors "on a par with or better than graphene" - the industry gold standard. Electric...