New UK Cannabinoid Vehicle Unveils Its Global Ambitions Following US CBD Acquisition April 8, 2021 Peter McCusker Hemp Industry News, Mergers & Acquisitions 0 Comments An ambitious London-headquartered private-equity acquisition vehicle has debuted with the purchase of a US CBD firm – as it sets out its global ‘buy-and-build’ ambitions. Tenacious Labs says the acquisition of Denver-based CBD brand Press Pause in a cash-and-shares deal… Read More→
Heavy Metal: GreenBroz Founder and CEO Cullen Raichart Loves to Disrupt April 7, 2021 Tom Hymes Ancillary Businesses, Company Stories, Cultivation, Hemp Industry News 0 Comments CBE last profiled Las Vegas, Nevada-based GreenBroz Inc. in 2015, when the producer of automated solutions for cannabis growers was shipping 20 trimmers a month to outfits in dire need of faster production output. Fast forward six years, and the… Read More→
Brothers build Shenandoah hemp empire March 31, 2021 AggregatedNews Hemp Industry News, Virginia 0 Comments Tanner Johnson, CEO of Pure Shenandoah LLC, says that his Elkton-based company is trying to bring hemp back to its Shenandoah Valley roots. After all, he explains, “back in the 1600s, this area was used heavily for hemp production and… Read More→
Human Trial Showing CBD Safe A Boost For Industry In Battles With Regulators March 26, 2021 Peter McCusker Hemp Business Executive, Hemp Industry News 0 Comments RESULTS from a major US trial over 800 people over the past seven months found CBD use has zero impact on the liver. In March, last year the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requested specific data on liver toxicity… Read More→
Taylor Mammon Founder Heralds GenCanna Deal As ‘Watershed Moment’ For Europe’s CBD Industry March 24, 2021 Peter McCusker Hemp Industry News, Mergers & Acquisitions 0 Comments ONE of the founders of Taylor Mammon says its purchase by major US player GenCanna may be the first of many similar transatlantic transactions – as it prepares for a period of rapid growth. Managing Director Nathan Wogman founded the… Read More→
UK Novel Food Deadline Slips As Over One-Third Of The 400-Plus CBD Applications Fall At First Hurdle March 4, 2021 Peter McCusker Hemp Industry News, United Kingdom 0 Comments AS the UK’s new regulated CBD market beckons BusinessCann has learnt that less than 25% of applications have so far been passed on to the Validation phase. The FSA has confirmed that by the end of February it had received… Read More→
Tobacco Giant Enters CBD space As It looks To Move Beyond Nicotine February 23, 2021 Peter McCusker Hemp Industry News 0 Comments A SECOND UK tobacco firm has turned its attention to cannabis with British American Tobacco launching a new CBD vaping device – Vuse CBD Zone. BAT, which sells Dunhill, Lucky Strike and Benson & Hedges, disclosed its interest in developing… Read More→
Clinical Study On 200 People Aims To Establish ‘Safe’ THC Level In Full-Spectrum Hemp Extracts February 17, 2021 Peter McCusker Europe, Hemp Industry News 0 Comments THE largest ever study into the toxicological impacts of humans ingesting trace levels of THC in food will get underway in the next few weeks. The European Industrial Hemp Association (EIHA) is spending over €1.6m on the trial featuring 200… Read More→
CBD Brands Entering Exercise Recovery February 16, 2021 Mike Luce Hemp Industry News 0 Comments The health and wellness industry continues to boom in the US which is reported to have the most health and wellness clubs in the world. Industry revenue is currently valued at some US$35 billion and enjoying growth of more than… Read More→
Dozens of CBD Brands In A State of ‘Absolute Panic’ With UK Novel Food Deadline Weeks Away January 18, 2021 Peter McCusker Hemp Industry News, United Kingdom 0 Comments THE New Year has brought a realisation that the Novel Food deadline is less than three months away leading to ‘absolute panic’ for many CBD brands, say leading industry figures. Gavin Ogilvie is founder and Managing Director of Manchester-based Always… Read More→
Bold Move To Free CBD From The Shackles Of Novel Food Features A Cannabis Soup Served To A Medieval Pope January 15, 2021 Peter McCusker Europe, Hemp Industry News 0 Comments EUROPE’S leading hemp trade group is set to make a significant move which could free much of the continent’s CBD industry from the shackles of the Novel Food regime. The European Industrial Hemp Association (EIHA) has spent many months scouring centuries-old historical… Read More→
Hemp Banking for Credit Unions: Five Key Questions January 6, 2021 AggregatedNews Banking, Finance & Real Estate, Hemp Industry News 0 Comments By Vince Sliwoski, Attorney at Harris Bricken One of the coolest things we’ve done here at Harris Bricken was work with the National Credit Union Association on its June 2020 guidance for servicing hemp-related businesses. Back when we first started… Read More→
CBD’s Differing Effects on Women and Men Under FDA Scrutiny November 23, 2020 AggregatedNews Hemp Industry News, Science and Technology 0 Comments CBD affects men and women differently, and that could have an impact on how the U.S. regulates the buzzy new substance. Women may be more likely to use it to alleviate pain, sleep difficulties, anxiety and other health issues, according… Read More→
Pandemic sees 9 million new users join the US CBD market November 17, 2020 Alexandra Curley Hemp Industry News, Marketing 0 Comments The latest consumer research from High Yield Insights has found that almost one in four CBD users entered the category in the last 6 months. This is equivalent to 9 million new users. In addition, more than one in three… Read More→
Willy Wonka Would Be Proud November 4, 2020 Ron Silver Hemp Business Executive, Hemp Industry News, Processing 0 Comments With the passing of the 2018 Farm Bill and the removal of industrial hemp and its derivatives from the Schedule I list of the Controlled Substances Act, cannabidiol (CBD) became a mainstream sensation. Hemp-derived CBD is the non-psychoactive cousin to… Read More→