Hemp Industry Flexes On Capitol Hill
Washington D.C. - By any measure, the U.S. hemp industry is playing a hot hand these days. Retail sales of hemp products jumped by...
Farmers Ask For 1,300 Acres Of Hemp
Hemp could be growing on more than 1,000 acres of Colorado farmland later this year — among the first legal grows since the 1950s....
First Retail Cannabis, Now Industrial Hemp
Industrial hemp producers can now begin to register with the Colorado Department of Agriculture's industrial hemp program, but the state is warning hemp businesses...
Feds Make Step Toward Hemp Legalization
The United States federal government may not be ready to sanction marijuana use, but a new agriculture bill is set to legalize preliminary stages...
This Is What The End Of Hemp Prohibition Looks Like
Farmers in Colorado made history when they harvested a hemp crop. The first in the United States since 1957 when the U.S. government banned...
Hickenlooper Signs Industrial Hemp Bill Into Law
Supporters of hemp cultivation in the United States are one step closer to seeing that happen. Governor Hickenlooper signed SB13-241 into law. The legislation...
Kentucky’s Industrial Hemp Measure Passes The House And Senate
Today the Governor of Kentucky stated that he will let the state's industrial hemp measure become law without his signature. Gov. Beshear had expressed...
Industrial Hemp LEGALIZED In Colorado
Rejoice Colorado farmers! Colorado Amendment 64 passed, allowing for the cultivation of industrial hemp. Most of the current buzz about the amendment is about...
Vermont Passes Hemp Amendment
In light of the overwhelming passage of legislation favoring Industrial Hemp farming, Rural Vermont is pleased to see that Vermont farmers are now one...
Hemp For Nuclear Clean-Up in Japan?
I've been glued to the television and internet reports about the unfolding disaster in Japan. First an 8.9 magnitude earthquake strikes near the island...
Hemp Wanted
Wanda Beattie, president and CEO of Atlantic Healing Hemp, paces the floor of her flagship store in Berwick, Nova Scotia. She is a...
Rope and Dope
On a recent day, the grandson of "America's Hemp King" relaxed poolside while reminiscing about his family's "sordid" history in Wisconsin's once-booming hemp industry.
"I...