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Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., hosted an Industrial Hemp Expo Tuesday at the U.S. Capitol, bringing together leading policymakers and entrepreneurs in the movement to restore industrial hemp to U.S. agriculture...

A legislative committee has approved a bill that would open the door to the cultivation of industrial hemp in South Dakota. The House Agriculture and Natural Resources committee voted 11-2 to approve the plan Tuesday. It heads to the full House of Representatives for consideration...

In 2014, Nebraska joined the growing list of states legalizing hemp for commercial and industrial purposes. Because of a decades-long ban on the production of hemp due to it coming from the same plant as marijuana, United States manufacturers had to import hemp for use in products, such as...

Under the intense gaze of former Speaker Sam Rayburn's marble statue, roughly 50 industrial hemp supporters held an expo on Capitol Hill Tuesday to promote lifting the federal ban on hemp, man. The expo -- sponsored by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Reps. Jared Polis (D-Colo.), Rep. Earl...

It seems like every day a presidential candidate is declaring that they will make America great again. But what does that really mean? What really made America great? Well, one of the things that made America great was hemp. That's right, hemp, the much maligned cousin of marijuana. According to...

Sipp Industries, Inc. (OTC: SIPC), a diversified conglomerate corporation specializing in technology, manufacturing and distribution of commercial and consumer products today announces the largest hemp order to date. Processing has begun and will be delivered quarterly starting this month. Sipp...

Florida A&M University may soon be able to conduct research on hemp. Lawmakers are working on a bill allowing the university to begin industrial hemp production, along with the University of Florida. State representative Dwight Dudley is a sponsor. Dudley says hemp production is...

Colorado is now home to some of the nation's first certified organic cannabis, which comes with a blessing from federal regulators. CBDRx, a Longmont, Colorado cannabis farm, has secured a certification to market its products with the organic seal from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a major...

Some South Dakota lawmakers are attempting to overcome perceptions about hemp's family ties to marijuana to explore the economic potential of the crop with a bill patterned after North Dakota's industrial hemp law. Cultivation of the plant could be a force for economic development in South...

After decades of importing hemp from other countries, in recent years several states have begun legalizing hemp farming for industrial purposes. New York is one of many states to take this action, with recent legislation making it the 11th in the nation to legalize hemp. As with other...

Montana became one of the first states to legalize hemp for industrial purposes, changing the law even before the federal government eased restrictions on its ban with the 2014 Farm Bill. Like the many states that followed, Montana saw the economic value of legalizing hemp farming. With the...

Two state lawmakers are calling for the legalization of industrial hemp production in Hawaii, which they say could replace the state's last sugar plantation that is shutting down by the end of the year. State Reps. Kaniela Ing of Maui and Cynthia Thielen of Oahu have introduced a bill that...

Maine farmers who want to grow industrial hemp like their counterparts in Canada and Europe should start writing letters to their representatives in Congress, John Jemison suggests. Jemison, an agricultural specialist at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, is among several...

A bill that would lower the penalties for first- and second-time marijuana possession is headed to the full Kansas Senate, but without other provisions that would have authorized the medicinal use of hemp oil to treat certain seizure disorders. Members of the Senate Corrections and Juvenile...

The Cannabis Party is calling for legislation to create a specialised hemp licencing body. The Medicines Control agency is unsuitable for regulating and licencing hemp, according to the Cannabis Party. "The two months wait to obtain a licence is too slow and bureaucratic, while the $511...

A West Virginia bill would allow the state hemp seed commissioner to issue licenses for industrial hemp production without first obtaining federal waivers. Passage of this legislation would set the foundation to nullify in practice the unconstitutional federal prohibition of hemp within the...

Kentucky is at the forefront of efforts across the country to legalize industrial hemp production. In the U.S., 22 states have enacted laws legalizing industrial hemp farming. After a 70-year absence, the Bluegrass State is one of 13 states to establish a commercial industrial hemp program, but...

A report by University of Hawai'i College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources suggests that the State could yield over 70 tons of industrial hemp a year. Harry Ako, principal investigator of the study, "discovered that three crops a year could be grown in [the] State. ... In the...

On Wednesday evening, January 6, some concerned and caring citizens of Otis organized a meeting on industrial hemp. A few of the citizens think this could be a very good cash crop for farmers in the area and wanted to get more information out to everyone. The first to address the crowd of...

A hearing Wednesday about whether Missouri should join the states that allow industrial hemp cultivation turned into a debate about the possibility that it could open the door to marijuana legalization. Sen. Brian Munzlinger, R-Williamstown, for the second year is sponsoring a measure that...