Tag: hemp
Senate Committee Approves Farming Bill That Includes Hemp Legislation
WASHINGTON D.C. – It’s a happy day for hemp advocates like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), as the Senate Agricultural Committee voted 20-1...
U.S. Surgeon General Takes No Position on CBD Oil
INDIANAPOLIS–News channel WTHR 13 on Monday reported that U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams told them that neither Health and Human Services or the...
Hickenlooper Throws Cannabis Advocates for a Loop
DENVER–In what turned out to be a big week for cannabis, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper (D-CO) drew the criticism of medical marijuana and cannabis...
Elizabeth Warren, Cory Gardner Introduce The STATES Act
Washington D.C.–U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) and U.S. Representatives David Joyce (R-Ohio) and Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) today introduced the Strengthening...
Senate Inches Closer to Hemp Farming Act
WASHINGTON D.C.–Senate legislators this week unanimously adopted a resolution recognizing June 4-10 as Hemp History Week nationally, and lauded the economic potential of the...
Study Finds Oral CBD May Lessen Impulse for Cigarettes
LONDON – Results published on May 1st in the journal Addiction said that an 800mg dose of oral CBD (cannabidiol) lessened attentional bias to cigarette...
First-Ever Public Ad in Japan for CBD Brand Elixinol
TOKYO–Tokyo's Omotesando train station is the site of the first-ever public advertising for a CBD product in Japan, from Australian-based manufacturer Elixinol.
CBD (cannabidiol) products...
DEA says it Won’t Prohibit Cannabis Stems, Seeds for Product Use, Sale
WASHINGTON D.C. –The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) on May 22 issued an internal directive that apparently acknowledges some cannabis products are not currently prohibited...
Oregon Cannabis Growers Shifting Toward Hemp Production
Springfield, Oregon-When it comes to cannabis production, there can actually be too much of a good thing. Because of a drastic oversupply, prices have been...
CBD Products in Michigan Will Now be Regulated Under Medicinal Cannabis Rules
Lansing, Mich.-- Officials have been overhauling Michigan's medicinal cannabis program. Cannabidiol (CBD) will now be covered under the state's medicinal cannabis laws.
The Department of Licensing...
