Category: Hemp

At the tail end of this week it’s Texas, California & Georgia in the news

Oklahoma, Georgia & Iowa latest news

This story makes a great change from the usual market price and regulation stuff. We wish those seeds the best of luck.

Another week passes, which means another week of hemp progress.  Check out the latest, write the US Hemp Roundtable

We’re not holding out hope looking at the endless back and forth over the years, on medical & recreational. We can’t believe a consensus will actually be reached. But , as they say, you never know………Conferees at the Hawaii Legislature on Friday struck agreement on establishing a permanent industrial hemp program in the state’s Department of Agriculture.

The hemp and CBD industry wants the European Union to change its Common Agricultural Policy, which governs food rules, and its definition of hemp, which caps THC at 0.2%. That level is lower than the 0.3% THC limit used in Asia and North America. The continent’s dominant industry group, the European Industrial Hemp Association (EIHA), predicts that European regulators are about to agree. Reports Hemp Industry Daily

Ministry of Hemp provides an interesting top six list..

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) clarified on Friday that hemp seeds can be imported into the U.S., and that the Justice Department no longer has a role in that process.

“We have had a significant interest in the Alabama Industrial Hemp Pilot Program from potential growers and processors since the availability of applications was announced in January,” Commissioner Rick Pate said.

All the latest that’s fit to print.

KSNT reports… “This bill today doesn’t mean farmers can grow commercial hemp yet, but regualtors can begin planning for that. “

Hemp Today reports. “AECOSAN this week issued a declaration that says only edibles derived from hemp seeds “have a clear and meaningful history of consumption within the EU.” That way of thinking makes extracts, derived from the hemp plant’s leaves and flowers, a “novel” food under EU rules.”

“Some glitches remain to be worked out, and some of it may require legislation … I’m prepared to do my job … all the way into the end zone if it requires additional legislation.” — McConnell to the AP.

With regard to a timeline for when USDA will release its rules and regulations for manufacturing and marketing hemp and hemp-derived products, Perdue told has told the house committee on appropriations the agency is “not expediting this” and is “taking this slow.”

The report says, amongst other things, that the U.S. may soon face an oversupply of hemp grown for CBD extraction, which could result in major losses for farmers once prices adjust.

The county is banning hemp cultivation, citing need for tighter regulation. The ban will expire on April 30, 2020. At least 20 other Californian counties are looking to take the same path.

We come across these articles rarely so they are worth highlighting as and when we see them. “Huaren Pharmaceutical, based in Qingdao, East China’s Shandong Province, said Wednesday that it has teamed up with a biotechnology company in Southwest China’s Yunnan Province to produce industrial cannabis in greenhouses, which could be the first such base in China for cannabis cultivation.”

The FDA has published in the Federal Register that it will be holding a public hearing on products containing cannabis or cannabis-derived products on May 31, 2019, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. 

“Drive, Exchange and Development” is the theme of the conference. As far as CLR is aware this is first hemp conference promoted internationally and for that very reason worth keeping an eye on.