INTERVIEW: Daniel Kruse is Chief Executive Officer of SYNBIOTIC SE, a publicly listed European holding company based in Düsseldorf, Germany. A serial entrepreneur, Kruse has founded several cannabis and hemp […]
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A proposed federal crackdown on intoxicating hemp-derived products has triggered a political standoff between Kentucky’s two Republican senators, with Sen. Rand Paul blocking an agriculture spending bill that includes language
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The Canadian Seed Growers’ Association (CSGA) is moving to rewrite the rulebook for industrial hemp, launching a major effort to enable hybrid hemp seed certification and re-evaluate isolation distance requirements
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The potential of Australia and New Zealand to be serious players in the emerging global hemp economy will be featured in a special report on the two countries due out
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A top Italian farm organization is exploring an industrial hemp project in Kazakhstan as the Central Asian country accelerates its move into legal cultivation and processing. Officials from the Unione
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Ukraine’s top internal security agency has arrested a senior anti-corruption official for allegedly helping his father export hemp seed to Russia in violation of wartime economic bans. According to the
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The Indian state of Himachal Pradesh is moving ahead with plans to regulate farming for industrial and medicinal cannabis, with rules for licensing expected soon and a phased rollout planned,
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Helped by an EU-funded initiative, stakeholders in France are working to strengthen the hemp textiles supply chain, engaging farmers, processors, and textile producers from north to south in a regionally
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