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Cannabis advocates are collaborating to start two companies designed to advance the hemp and medical marijuana industries in Pennsylvania. The companies will be based in Berks County but serve portions of the midstate. One will capitalize on legislation permitting the growth of industrial...

Cannabis advocates are collaborating to start two companies designed to advance the hemp and medical marijuana industries in Pennsylvania. The companies will be based in Berks County but serve portions of the midstate. One will capitalize on legislation permitting the growth of industrial...

Section 7606 of the Agricultural Act established in 2014 is quickly making it's presence felt here in the Bluegrass. That, my friends, is a good thing. The Agricultural Act of 2014 allowed certain states including Kentucky to start farming hemp again after a ban of almost 60 years. While it...

Clint Pyatt is a third-generation farmer from Oklahoma who has traveled the world promoting the hemp industry. So it's no coincidence that the 45-year-old Marine Corps veteran is trying to shepherd hemp into Pueblo County. "Hemp has the opportunity to put Pueblo on the map," Pyatt said during...

Hemp has been banned in the USA for over 75 years but thanks to the efforts of cannabis reform activists, it is making a huge comeback. Despite being banned, a hemp industry does exist in the US, through the importing of hemp from other countries but also through hemp cultivation. In the UK...

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives voted unanimously yesterday to legalize industrial hemp across the state, sending the legislation to Gov. Tom Wolf. The House voted 184-0 on July 10 to approve the legislation, following a state Senate vote earlier this month. The bill is now on...

Parkersburg - The half-acre plot of fledgling plants along a hillside at Cedar Lane Farm puts into perspective the return of hemp to West Virginia soil - a resistance-riddled movement struggling to rise out of infancy. Owner Dave Hawkins arrives with a few signs to post around the plot...

The nondescript building in east Boulder is like many other in the city; is, in fact, identical to several surrounding structures. Passing motorists and pedestrians wouldn't know that there's a multi-million dollar manufacturing operation inside. And that's the way the folks at CW Hemp want it...

The nondescript building in east Boulder is like many other in the city; is, in fact, identical to several surrounding structures. Passing motorists and pedestrians wouldn't know that there's a multi-million dollar manufacturing operation inside. And that's the way the folks at CW Hemp want it...

Hey, Mark Zuckerberg, can we talk about hemp? No, really, I'm asking: can we? Because a recent experience with Facebook left the impression that reporting on the plant used in products from soap to rope is taboo. Verboten. The leaf that dare not speak its name. This bit of anti-social media...

Gov. David Ige on Thursday signed into law a bill allowing the state Department of Agriculture to cultivate industrial hemp. Senate Bill 2659, which was signed into Act 228, establishes an industrial hemp pilot program through the DOA. The program allows the cultivation of industrial hemp and...

Since April 17, I have been on an epic adventure RVing across the U.S. with one of my good friends Steve and his dog Arthur. The trip originally began in Utah, and since then we have traveled to Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, California, Washington, Nebraska and Oregon. Through extreme serendipitous...

Rural Elgin - Clarence Laub figures there's no right or wrong outcome to an experiment, just a learning curve. That's the view he's taking of a 10-acre hemp plot near the family farm south of Elgin that's part of a statewide pilot program to see if the crop has potential for North Dakota...

A feasibility study into a commercially viable hemp industry for Tasmania was commissioned by the state House of Assembly standing committee on environment, resources and development in March 2012. The inquiry attracted 24 submissions from 20 individuals, companies and growers, mainly from...

Farmers throughout the Ohio Valley want to revive a crop that was once a staple in the region: hemp. After a ban that lasted more than half a century, the 2014 Farm Bill allowed states to grow hemp in research programs. Growers and processors in Kentucky are aggressively putting that research...

Elgin, North Dakota — Out in a field that can be viewed from the windows of a farmhouse in southwestern North Dakota, Clarence Laub III, finished seeding his industrial hemp crop on June 1. Laub III had already planted the other crops on the family farm, planting their sunflowers the week...

Four years ago, the people of Colorado approved Amendment 64, legalizing marijuana and hemp in the state. In just its third growing season, the hemp industry has exploded in the Centennial State, despite continuing federal prohibition. In fact, between state policy and people simply willing to...

Rob Jungmann wants to see everyone in a hemp t-shirt by 2020. That's the tagline for his hemp-loving company Jungmaven. The conservationist and entrepreneur wants to convince Americans that hemp should be in their wardrobes as much as cotton. And his campaign comes at the right time. In...

Ryan Loflin bet the farm in 2013 and did what no U.S. producer had done for 70 years. The Springfield, Colo., grower ordered hemp seed by mail from Europe and stockpiled his supply bit by precious bit. When the cache climbed to 1,500 lbs., Loflin, 43, stepped into agriculture's terra...

Federal securities regulators have filed a complaint against Bruce Perlowin that charges the CEO of publicly-traded Hemp Inc of committing a long-running fraud by evading securities registration provisions and selling hundreds of millions of unregistered shares. Perlowin embraced the title of...