hemp

The Washington State Department of Agriculture has started to develop rules to fine unlicensed hemp growers and processors, an exercise made necessary by state legislators getting ahead of federal law. WSDA also may draw up penalties for violating the conditions of state-issued hemp licenses...

North Dakota's Agriculture Department is seeking participants for the third year of the state's industrial hemp research program. The goal of the program is to determine whether hemp can be a successful crop in North Dakota, and which varieties work best in the state's climate. Producers...

Farmers in diverse states like Hawaii, Kentucky, Maine and Minnesota are researching a new crop: industrial hemp. Many states are changing laws to allow growing of hemp. Wisconsin is slow to get in the game. Hopefully, this is about to change. Lawmakers on the Senate Agriculture, Small...

The University of Virginia is researching hemp and medical marijuana in collaboration with a plant biotechnology company. Virginia biology professor Michael Timko says the research looks to renew the state as a leading producer of hemp and restore land depleted by tobacco and mining. The...

The University of Virginia has completed its first successful harvest of hemp plants in collaboration with a private plant biotechnology company. The harvest – coming after the first year of a three-year, $1.1 million sponsored research agreement between UVa and biotech company 22nd Century...

Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles recently announced that the Kentucky Department of Agriculture (KDA) has opened the application period for Kentuckians wishing to participate in the state's industrial hemp research pilot program for the 2018 growing season. "I am proud to report...

Hemp: It's a green, leafy plant that, with the exception of its rocky past, would seem to have very little in common with coal, Northwest Colorado's largest commodity. "Hemp Coal" is a registered trademark of the AXIM Biotechnologies company, "a business involved in the research and...

Hardship rides the wind in the West End, a lonely basin where Colorado's Uncompahgre Plateau joins Utah's canyonlands. It started more than 30 years ago, when the collapse of the uranium market and the failure of the country's nuclear-energy renaissance decimated the town of Uravan and idled...

Cory Sharp of Moses Lake, Wash., has a problem, and it's a big one. He has as much as 80,000 pounds of hemp seed from a 75-acre crop he planted in June. He'd like to crush them for their oil, but no facility exists in Washington for that purpose. He can't cart them across state lines, or into...

Participants are being sought for North Dakota Department of Agriculture's 2018 industrial hemp pilot program. "Industrial hemp may only be grown in North Dakota through the North Dakota Department of Agriculture's pilot program or by institutions of higher education," North Dakota...

I see hemp oil advertised in soap, lotions, etc. Is all of that the same as CBD oil? It's hard to keep up with extracts because of cannabis's legal status and social stigma, so no worries. Although CBD can be derived from hemp and neither oils have psychoactive effects like THC waxes and...

India is the world's second largest exporter of cotton, but there are some big challenges: Modern conventional cotton cultivation relies on pesticides and herbicides which are improperly, excessively, and dangerously applied in underdeveloped countries, and might have contributed to the...

If you blaze in Japan and get caught, you could face up to 7 years in prison off a rip from some shitty weed. But Japan wasn't always so incredibly anti-weed, man. In fact, Japan used to be a nation that wore weed proudly on their shoulders – literally. Historically, hemp was the most...

"Hemp is an agricultural commodity and should be treated as such in Wisconsin law," Sen. Kathleen Vinehout, D-Alma, said when commenting on the recent passage of Senate Bill 119 by the Committee on Agriculture, Small Business and Tourism. Vinehout, as a member of the committee, tried to amend...

A Vancouver company that develops and brings to market therapeutic pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals intends to buy another British Columbia company that processes, packages and distributes nutritional organic hemp products. Pivot Pharmaceuticals Inc. executed a letter of intent to acquire...

Uruguay's nascent hemp industry is quietly expanding in the shadow of its more sexy cousin, recreational marijuana, with planting of the crop used in food, pharmaceuticals and textiles set to triple this year. Nine companies, including a subsidiary of publicly traded International Cannabis...

Horowhenua's mayor wants the council to back hemp farming in a bid to increase the district's employment rate. It's far from "wacky backy" and would help keep young people in the district, mayor Michael Feyen says. Hemp had a stigma for its association with marijuana, but hemp has much...

A Wisconsin tribe is set to grow hemp in hopes of extracting oil from the plant that could help treat seizures and other health problems, despite uncertainty over its legality. The St. Croix Chippewa plan to begin production at the end of the month, the Wisconsin State Journal reported ...

An Irish chef who works as a private chef to rock stars and celebrities in the US has spent the last four years cooking with cannabis. Aine McAteer has had a glittering career as a private chef to Hollywood stars like Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, John Cusack and Simpsons creator Matt Groening...

Public and industry support is growing for the regulation and use of cannabis plants, both in terms of marijuana legalization for medical and recreational use and industrial hemp as an agricultural crop. 
 At least 33 states have passed legislation to allow for industrial hemp and 29 states...