Nutraceuticals maker Creso Pharma Ltd. said it signed an agreement to acquire Colorado-based consumer packaged goods company Sierra Sage Herbs (SSH) in an all-stock deal worth $21 million. Australia-based Creso
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A bill being proposed in the Oregon legislature would authorize state agriculture officials to limit industrial hemp licenses as one way to crack down on illegal marijuana growers that plague
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HEMPALTA, a newly formed Canadian hemp company, said it has purchased key assets from Canadian Greenfield Technologies Corp (CGT), Calgary, for an undisclosed sum. Included in the deal is a
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Costa Rica looks poised to ban the home growing of marijuana for medical patients but provisions proposed to govern industrial hemp will remain in place, according to changes requested by
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Thailand appears to be clearing the way for industrial hemp as the Narcotics Control Committee (NCC) agreed to remove cannabis from the country’s list of controlled substances but said plant
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Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA) say they have developed a hemp‐based rebar reinforcing technology for cement construction. Alexandros Tsamis, assistant professor of architecture and associate director of the Center
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Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado appears unlikely to sign a proposed bill that would legalize medical cannabis and industrial hemp, but said he will release a counterproposal this week. Almost
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CBD stakeholders in the UK are anticipating the release of a list of compliant products from food safety authorities expected any day as they look to gain footholds in the
CBD list in UK to crack open legal market pegged at nearly $1 billion Read More »
A French judge has temporarily lifted a ban on smokable hemp flowers, suggesting such products “would not present a degree of harmfulness to health justifying a total and absolute prohibition
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The UK’s Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) has recommended a maximum level of .05 parts per million (ppm) per unit of consumption for THC in CBD products,
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