A Minnesota hemp farmer facing felony drug charges over a 2018 crop that went hot still has the right to challenge the loss of his hemp license, a federal judge ruled Thursday. Luis Hummel, who owns 5th

Relative hemp newcomers Louisiana, New Jersey and Ohio have leapfrogged states with more established hemp programs in winning first approval for their 2020 regulations. The U.S. Department of Agriculture

Federal agriculture authorities on Monday unveiled a new pilot crop insurance program for hemp producers. The Risk Management Agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is offering a new option

A $1.4 trillion federal spending bill that passed both houses of Congress and was expected to be signed Friday by President Donald Trump reportedly includes provisions that would benefit hemp and CBD

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The global industrial hemp market is projected to grow from USD 4.6 billion in 2019 to USD 26.6 billion by 2025, recording a CAGR of 34%. Increasing legalization in the cultivation of industrial hemp and

Canadian marijuana giant Aurora Cannabis has sold its remaining stake in a Toronto company that has a hemp subsidiary in Poland. Aurora sold its shares in The Green Organic Dutchman (TGOD) for 86.5 million

A federal appeals court ruled against a Colorado hemp company trying to force Idaho authorities to release hemp seized in a January traffic stop. Big Sky Scientific of Aurora, Colorado, asked the 9th Circuit

California’s long-awaited legislation to legalize hemp-derived CBD in foods, beverages, and cosmetics has been put on hold, rendering it dead on arrival for this legislative session. The Senate Appropriations

Canada has a 20-year head start on the United States is growing and processing hemp. But Canada’s acreage shrank in 2018 as the nation lagged behind its southern neighbor in developing a market for hemp

An agriculture biotech company that markets high-fiber wheat said it is expanding its hemp subsidiary with a $10 million stock offering. Arcadia Biosciences of Davis, California, plans to use the money

(This is an abridged version of a column that appears in the August issue of Marijuana Business Magazine.) Kristen Nichols is the editor of Hemp Industry Daily. Smokable hemp has taken hold with consumers.

(This story has been updated with more details and reactions from hemp farmers.) Federal crop insurance is finally coming to some hemp farmers as the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) takes more steps

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A Columbus, Ohio-based cannabis retailer that distributes CBD products at big-box retail stores and malls across America has completed its initial equity raise through a bought deal offering for 50.2 million

More than six months after hemp was made legal in the United States, federal drug authorities have updated their guidance to remind law enforcement that hemp is no longer a controlled substance. A notice

A Kentucky company planning to develop hemp-derived wood products has begun production even as it appeals a 25% tariff on some equipment from China. Fibonacci opened its $5.8 million facilities in Murray,

Have you ever wondered about the applications and economics for industrial hemp? Here, Rob Kuvinka, manager of New Frontier Data, explores this further. Used in Europe for more than 3,200 years, hemp today

A court in Florida has ruled that the medical cannabis rules put in place by lawmakers created an “oligopoly” inconsistent with the constitutional amendment that a huge majority of voters approved in 2016.

The FBI says it is seeking information about cannabis companies who may have obtained a permit through illegal means, such as by bribing a corrupt public official. On the most recent episode of its weekly