Purdue starts online hemp course
Purdue University is offering a non-credit “Hemp Essentials” online course covering industrial hemp as a crop and potential end uses. The new course will be…
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Thai FDA sets hemp training seminar
The Thai Food and Drug Administration will offer a training seminar in hemp production, import, export and distribution at Maejo University in Mae Cho on…
Hemp needs wide range of research, say U.S. stakeholders
While enthusiasm is high among U.S. hemp producers, the industry suffers critical bottlenecks and wide gaps in knowledge that require broad-based research initiatives, according to…
Advisor named to Colorado project
The Colorado Department of Agriculture (CDA) officially named Denver-based Marijuana Policy Group (MPG Consulting to help develop a state Hemp Center of Excellence. A strategic…
U.S. school grooms CBD professionals
Rhode Island-based Johnson & Wales University has started a Cannabis Entrepreneurship academic program focused on CBD. The B.S. curriculum embraces science, business, economics and entrepreneurship,…
Cannabis academy starts in S. Africa
A South African company has started an online cannabis academy offering short courses on various aspects of marijuana and hemp. Cheeba Cannabis Academy has enlisted…
Colorado school adds hemp degree
Colorado State University at Pueblo will offer a hemp agriculture degree program beginning fall 2021 with funding support from the United States Department of Agriculture…
New Mexico school starts hemp program
New Mexico Highlands University (USA) officials approved a program in industrial hemp under its Emerging Business Markets Entrepreneurship initiative. One track will be offered for…
Australian philanthropists back hemp initiatives in USA
A new fund launched by Australian philanthropists Barry and Joy Lambert will provide a $2 million boost to the U.S. state of Pennsylvania’s hemp industry…
Landscape is promising for Latin American hemp’s takeoff
INTERVIEW: Gerónimo Caro Díaz & Romina Fernández, Cannabis & Hemp Studies Center, Uruguay HempToday: What was the impetus behind the startup of CECC? Romina Fernández:…