Accused of stealing two $1,000 hemp plants from Bay County farm takes plea
Two of three men accused of stealing a pair of valuable, though THC-lacking, hemp plants from a Bay County farm have had...
Importation of Hemp Seeds
April 18, 2019
The passing of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill, Section 10113) removed hemp...
Major motor car company is interested to grow hemp in Jamaica
MONTEGO BAY, St James — Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Audley Shaw has disclosed that Government is zealously seeking to facilitate a...
US FARM BILL SIGNED INTO LAW WHICH LEGALIZES HEMP
On Thursday, December 20, 2018 President Trump signed the US Farm Bill into law which legalizes hemp a key source of highly touted...
What is Phytoremediation
Phytoremediation (‘phyto’ means plant) is a generic term for the group of technologies that use plants for remediating soils, sludges, sediments and water contaminated...
USDA Accepting Applications For Hemp Intellectual Property Protection
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that the Plant Variety Protection Office (PVPO) will start accepting applications of seed-propagated hemp for plant variety protection.
Phytoremediation with Hemp – Cleaning Up Environmental Contaminants
Phytoremediation
Phytoremediation is the use of plants to assist in cleaning up contaminated soils. The contaminants are taken up and stored by the plant, which...
Hemp farmers and the CBD rush
The market for CBD, a supplemental health product from the cannabis plant that does not provide the THC psychoactive high from marijuana,...
Attorney General Jeff Sessions re-criminalizes cannabis
Attorney General Jeff Sessions re-criminalizes cannabis
01/04/2018
You may have or not... heard that U.S. DOJ head Jeff Sessions just “re-criminalized” all cannabis nationwide, regardless of the...
MICHIGAN OFFICIALS DEAL WITH CBD OIL REGULATION
CBD -- cannabidiol -- is a component in marijuana and hemp that does not produce the psychoactive effects of THC but can relieve stress, anxiety and pain. It's one of the reasons interest is high in Michigan in hemp farming.