When it comes to cannabis, there is a lot of information and misinformation circling the internet. With growing support for marijuana legalization (61% in 2018 vs. 57% in 2017), America is running into the desperate need for readily available information on the plant responsible for so much controversy. One of the biggest misconceptions is that all cannabis […]
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Senate Agriculture Panel Passes Farm Bill With Hemp Legalization
The Senate Agriculture Committee on Wednesday passed the massive farm bill by a 20-1 vote and overcame an attempt to tighten subsidy payments to farmers. The draft farm bill, officially known as the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, contains more than 1,000 pages and covers everything from farm subsidies and food stamps to trade and rural […]
Industrial Hemp: Legalized Marijuana’s More Lucrative Sibling
Derived from the identical plants, much easier to cultivate, and profoundly more profitable, industrial hemp lacks legalized marijuana’s glamour and intrigue. Derived from the identical plants, much easier to cultivate, and profoundly more profitable, industrial hemp lacks legalized marijuana’s glamour and intrigue. However, industrial hemp’s staggering growth and application has eclipsed that of marijuana and […]
US Senate Unanimously Approves Hemp Measure
The U.S. Senate, without objection from any lawmaker of either party, adopted legislation on Tuesday recognizing “the growing economic potential of industrial hemp” as well as its “historical relevance.” The resolution, which was passed to commemorate “Hemp History Week,” also decries the fact that “ the United States is the largest consumer of hemp products in the world, but the […]
For Michigan Farmers, Growing Hemp Is No Laughing Matter
For going on a century, Americans spoke of hemp in the same breath as marijuana. Both were for joking, smoking and getting arrested. And both were made illegal by the U.S. Congress in 1937. Yet, although marijuana and hemp come from the same plant — called cannabis sativa— they’re not the same. Traditional hemp can’t intoxicate […]
Could Hemp Be A Savior For Kansas Agriculture?
Clark Kelman raises corn and soybeans just like his father and grandfather did on the High Plains of Kansas. There isn’t anything wrong with that, the fifth-generation Haskell County farmer said. But with water levels declining on their southwest Kansas farm and the downturn in the farm economy, he envisions growing something different. Kelman wants […]
Can Industrial Hemp Make A Comeback In Iowa?
The momentum for legalizing industrial hemp in America is building. Iowa supporters of the once-prevalent crop, though, have moved on from being eager about its possibilities to anxious to get growing. Hemp got lumped in with its infamous sibling cannabis crop, marijuana, when it was made illegal to grow in the U.S. without a permit in 1970. But hemp […]
New York Farmers Eyeing Big Benefits From Growing Hemp That Doesn’t Get You High
When 22-year-old Owen Martinetti and a partner moved from Queens to a farm in Rensselear County, his neighbors were certain the pair were growing “weed.” They are — but not in the sense most people have in mind. To the surprise of many, they will join about 100 farmers legally planting more than 3,000 acres of cannabis across New York […]
Oklahoma Department of Agriculture’s Industrial Hemp Program Is Taking Applications
Colleges and universities can now apply to participate in a new industrial hemp program that will oversee the research of the crop as a possible addition to Oklahoma’s agricultural landscape. Lawmakers this year approved the pilot program. Individuals cannot hold a license, but they can contract with colleges and universities to produce hemp for industrial […]
Texas Backs Off Changes That Could’ve Led to CBD Confiscation, for Now
The Texas Department of State Health Services has tapped the brakes on a proposed protocol that could’ve seen all food and supplements containing cannabidiol oil removed from Texas store shelves, thanks to a deluge of comments sent to the agency last month in support of the products. “The protocol that was proposed had only addressed hemp […]
