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Salisbury, NC - Nearly two hundred farmers, business operators, and experts from Rowan and surrounding counties and several other states packed the Cooperative Extension auditorium on Wednesday to learn more about producing industrial hemp. It's an old crop that's making a strong comeback...

With the first legal hemp crop grown in Virginia in decades out of the ground, researchers are now working on their next steps with the harvest and planning for next year's growing season. Mike Renfroe, a professor of biology at James Madison University, studied the crop over the summer. He...

Rowan County, NC - Imagine if you will, a field completely covered with a crop many think is marijuana. In reality, it's actually hemp. "They are both cannabis plants, but we kind of explain it to some people like corn. If you look out in a corn field you see corn but if you strip off the husk...

Boulder - Sales of products containing cannabidiol oil, a non-psychoactive compound of hemp and marijuana plants, continue to grow across the country, the Boulder-based Hemp Business Journal said. CBD from hemp was a $90 million market in 2015, beating expectations by $5 million, the trade...

Dutch students in the Netherlands have built a 46-foot-long footbridge out of hemp and flax fibers to demonstrate a use of more sustainable construction materials. Known as the "biobridge" the project was the result of a partnership between TU Delft, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)...

Washington's hemp coordinator says she's optimistic growers will plant the crop next year, though obtaining seeds depends on approval from a federal drug enforcement agency that still classifies hemp on a par with heroin. The state Department of Agriculture has applied to the U.S. Drug...

Legal opinions, from top government legal minds in Belize, have been given, and they agree - the cultivation of cannabis for industrial use (fiber and seed) is legal in Belize. Still our top-elected officials and politically appointed bureaucrats continue to ignore the fact that the cultivation...

Marijuana is an ancient plant with borderline mystical properties - just ask the 266 million people who smoke it every year. Hemp, the industrial strain of Cannabis sativa, has been used for many purposes - food, fuel and textiles among them - for tens of thousands of years. Unlike its sister...

Washington - You can't get high from smoking hemp, but a bipartisan group of lawmakers says states and universities growing it for research could get busted if they cross state lines with it. Three Kentucky lawmakers - Republican Sen. Rand Paul, Democratic Rep. John Yarmuth and Republican...

Australians hoping it will soon be legal to consume food products made from hemp seeds will now have to wait until next year. A decision on whether hemp can be sold in food products was due to be made this month but has now been delayed until April 2017. Hemp is a species of cannabis, but...

Casinos on Native American land have poured billions into tribal economies since the late 1980s, lifting many people from poverty. Now, some hope, cultivating industrial hemp could do the same. Under U.S. law, hemp - which comes from the same family of plants that produce marijuana - can be...

Hawaii's full House of Representatives has given unanimous approval to legislation that would explicitly legalize the cultivation, production and distribution of hemp in the state. The measure — House Bill 2555 — now heads to the Senate, where it's expected to pass. Under the proposed law...

In any large family there will be the earnest brother or sister and the fun-loving, irresponsible sibling. So it is with Cannabis sativa, in which one variety, known as hemp, has a huge range of potential applications, while the other, with a high concentration of the psychoactive component...

Raleigh — The N.C. Industrial Hemp Commission will hold its first meeting Tuesday, Nov. 1, at 2 p.m. in the Martin Building at the State Fairgrounds. The meeting is open to the public. The state General Assembly passed legislation in 2015 to create a pilot program to research hemp production...

Raleigh — The N.C. Industrial Hemp Commission will hold its first meeting Tuesday, Nov. 1, at 2 p.m. in the Martin Building at the State Fairgrounds. The meeting is open to the public. The state General Assembly passed legislation in 2015 to create a pilot program to research hemp production...

The last couple of years have been problematic for Canada's hemp industry because of an over-production of seed, stagnant acreage growth, the potential of U.S. competition and excessive regulations. Yet, despite the difficulties, many people in the sector remain confident about the future of...

Albany, N.Y. - A hemp industry trade group is holding a workshop for people interested in New York's hemp-growing pilot program. The state is offering 10 licenses that allow universities to grow hemp or partner with farmers to grow it. A central New York farm paired with Morrisville State...

Frankfort - Kentuckians interested in participating in the industrial hemp research pilot program in 2017 are invited to submit an application with the Kentucky Department of Agriculture. "The pilot research program will continue to build on the successes of the previous administration by...

New York State Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo received the National Legislator of the Year Award from the industrial hemp advocacy organization Vote Hemp at a Hemp Industry Association conference last month. Lupardo, who represents the state's 123rd Assembly District, which includes Binghamton...

It's a plant shrouded in stereotypes and stigmas, but for one Tennessee couple, hemp has provided a new opportunity for business after a family trip nearly turned to tragedy. Sitting on a dock in her farm Monday, Maggie Fox recalled the pain she has experienced this past year. "We were...