View from Bogotá: ‘The hemp opportunity goes way beyond CBD’
INTERVIEW: Manuel Baselga is a public affairs executive and social entrepreneur with 15+ years’ operational experience in over 25 emerging countries, mainly across Latin America…
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Funny money, hemp’s first $billion product, and GW’s Big Pharma model
The Richard Rose Report: Episode 1: May 26, 2020 – The CBD Market: What’s ahead for the sector and a look at 4 key players:…
HempFlax buys German insulation maker, launches new division
Holland-based HempFlax has purchased Thermo-Natur, a German company that makes insulation from natural fibers, and has launched a building supplies division, the company announced this…
U.S. firm rolls out multi-crop harvester compatible with Deere combines
Nebraska, USA-based farmers and equipment developers FarmMax have debuted the Interceptor, multi-cropping hemp harvesting technology for flowers, seed and stalks. Designed to attach to the…
‘Vast majority’ of stakeholders in USA will focus on CBD in 2020
A “vast majority” of American hemp farmers and processors will focus on CBD in 2020 according to a report by Hemp Benchmarks, which monitors the…
Research in U.S. will look at single vs. whole-plant extracts
Leading researchers in the USA will check the effectiveness of whole-plant versus single-extract CBD under a $9 million project aimed at enlightening consumers and doctors….
European association’s 17th hemp conference is online only
The annual European Industrial Hemp Association (EIHA) conference will be an online only affair this June due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, organizer nova-Institute GmbH…
China agrees to buy U.S. hemp fiber; Can anyone supply it?
While China has agreed to purchase an unspecified amount of hemp fiber from the United States in a recently signed agriculture trade deal, it seems…
Updated rules in Iceland put industrial hemp under drug authority
Iceland’s Ministry of Health announced changes in the country’s narcotics laws that gives the government’s Icelandic Medicines Agency (IMA) rights to import industrial hemp seeds…
Death penalty, chewing gum, a property in Jamaica: Lawsuits run the gamut
Back in autumn 2018, investors began piling into U.S.-based India Globalization Capital, Inc., (IGC) which had announced in September of that year the startup of…