The United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) will explore “Human Rights and the Drug Control System” during a conference March 13-15 in Vienna. CND assists the UN’s Economic and […]
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American Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Democrat from the U.S. State of Vermont, got the topic of CBD into the confirmation hearings for federal Attorney General designee Jeff Sessions (Republican Senator of
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We hear that talks held earlier this month between hemp industry representatives and the UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) were “constructive.” The meeting was arranged in the
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Missouri State Sen. Rob Schaaf has prefiled a Senate Bill (SB120) for the 2017 legislative session which would remove industrial hemp from the state’s list of controlled substances and set
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More than half of all Americans have access to medical marijuana; and almost everyone else lives in a state that permits CBD. How will the anti-marijuana attitude of U.S. Attorney
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And meanwhile hamstrings hemp growers By Richard Rose • The recent Proposition 64 in California, aka Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), made genetically-engineered cannabis by universities a near certainty, while
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Pressure from the Canadian Hemp Trade Alliance (CHTA) has finally paid off for the country’s domestic industry as government officials this week removed a key requirement that hemp grain and
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An impending change in EU regulations could open the door to alternative subsidies for hemp farmers following the discontinuation of other EU hemp fiber cash-back programs, sources have suggested to
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Twenty-four leading hemp professionals from all over the world gathered in Poland Friday and Saturday, Oct. 21-22, 2016 for the Hemp2020 Investment Summit. Most rolled in on Thursday for the
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The European Industrial Hemp Association (EIHA) this week criticized “a few pharmaceutical companies” for leading a fight for legislation that would make CBD a prescription-only drug, on the heels of
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