The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has now advanced a total 2,847 CBD products to the second stage of its three-stage approval process for new (or “novel”) foods. In the …
Nearly 3,000 products advance in UK’s $800 million CBD sweepstakes Read More »
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has agreed to amend a hemp bill awaiting his signature, but hemp stakeholders say the changes don’t go far enough. Youngkin ordered changes to a provision …
Virginia hemp stakeholders say THC rules in amended bill don’t go far enough Read More »
As Zimbabwe continues to shape rules and laws for the hemp industry, the country needs to simultaneously build out infrastructure and expand research while spreading risk by moving beyond CBD …
Zimbabwe’s hemp fortunes hinge on diversification into fiber, foods Read More »
French authorities have approved temporary guidelines which allow CBD products to be declared as food supplements and remain on the market pending authorization under the EU’s food safety program. The …
France sets temporary rules to keep $300 million market for CBD open Read More »
U.S. lawmakers re-introduced two bills that would establish a legal framework for hemp-derived cannabinoids, hoping to revive a rulemaking process that has been slow to unfold. The measures would mandate …
U.S. lawmakers re-introduce bills that would set framework for CBD Read More »
A batch of applications for CBD products submitted by a UK trade group has been advanced by food safety authorities. The Association for the Cannabinoid Industry (ACI), which formed a …
CBD applications from 7 companies advanced by UK food safety authorities Read More »
Indiana farmers appear to have all but given up on industrial hemp, and stakeholders say the state government is to blame. Now down to just 40 licensees after hitting a …
Failure to set legal framework in Indiana means ‘hemp program is dying’ Read More »
A bill introduced in the U.S. Congress would allow convicted drug felons to own or serve in principal roles in hemp companies, striking down restrictions in the 2018 Farm Bill. …
U.S. lawmakers float bill that would give ‘second chance’ to drug felons Read More »
It started with a meeting at the police station followed by a smelly bus trip, as the late Dr. Raphael Mechoulam recalled years later. The future “father of cannabis research” …
Mechoulam’s studies in cannabis started with police, and a smelly bus trip Read More »
More state governments are joining the growing chorus that would ban synthetic, hemp-derived delta-8 THC, with Arkansas, West Virginia and Texas the most recent to take such measures under consideration. …
Clouds darken over CBD as more states consider banning delta-8 Read More »
