Nikki Fried, Florida’s Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services wants to start a hemp revolution here in Florida. We must admit she’s trying to do it the right way. For the past year and a half that our store has been open we have been self-regulated. Meaning...
Colorado CBD Seed, who is a HM Health LLC Company, announces that it has an agreement to donate feminized seeds of their proprietary Abacus Early Bird cultivar to the University of Florida for agricultural hemp research. This cultivar of hemp is known for its early...
Southern Grocers, which owns Winn-Dixie, is now selling CBD. They launched a range of CBD products at approximately 150 retail locations in Florida and South Carolina. Now offering 65 CBD infused items, including topicals, supplements, and pet products from a variety of different brands. We...
A farmer in Franklin County Washington lost tens of thousands of dollars in plants to a thief thinking it was marijuana. The plants that Matthew Morrell grow are like the cannabis plant. They look and smell almost the same. However, the main difference is they contain less than .3%...
Everyone has been trying to get into the CBD business. Bloomberg reported last year that even the beverage giant Coca Cola was looking to get into the mix. They apparently were in serious talks with Aurora Cannabis to develop a CBD infused cannabis drink. 10%...
The number of deadly illnesses linked to vaping appears to be “leveling off or even declining”, says the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). I could be that warnings from health officials of this whole “vaping crisis” have caused actions by authorities on the product supply...
We just legalized hemp! The 2018 Farm Bill made the production of hemp legal in all 50 states, and the USDA is days away from releasing regulations for its cultivation. Not only is CBD derived from hemp, but industrial hemp has a number of uses: from fuel, plastic,...
The 2018 Farm Bill put the job of establishing a regulatory framework for hemp production in the US. In order to do that the USDA has established the US Domestic Hemp Production Program and is developing the rules as we speak. These rules would allow...
The USDA will release today their draft of interim final rules for the regulation of the cultivation of hemp in the United States. These rules have staggering consequences on the US hemp farmer. See their first version of the rules here. The final version...
Farmers across the country will soon be able to grow hemp! The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced yesterday the US Domestic Hemp Production Program. This program is intended to enact the 2018 Farm Bill which classified the difference between hemp and cannabis, hemp is a plant that...
