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High anxiety: Proposed U.S. hemp rules worry industry
Hemp growers and entrepreneurs who were joyous a year ago after U.S. lawmakers reclassified the plant as a legal agricultural crop now are worried their businesses could be crippled if federal policymakers move ahead with draft regulations. Licenses for hemp cultivation topped a half-million acres last year, more than 450% above 2018 levels, so there’s […]
High anxiety: Proposed U.S. hemp rules worry industry
Hemp growers and entrepreneurs who were joyous a year ago after U.S. lawmakers reclassified the plant as a legal agricultural crop now are worried their businesses could be crippled if federal policymakers move ahead with draft regulations. Licenses for hemp cultivation topped a half-million acres last year, more than 450% above 2018 levels, so there’s […]
Legal hemp, CBD stir more farmers to grow unfamiliar crop
Dave Crabill and two business partners started small for their first foray into farming hemp, growing two strains of the now-legal cousin of marijuana on an acre along a dirt road outside the industrial city of Flint. The endeavor wasn’t easy. Flooding from record rain stunted some plants. Crabill and others had to carefully walk […]
Legal hemp, CBD stir more farmers to grow unfamiliar crop
Dave Crabill and two business partners started small for their first foray into farming hemp, growing two strains of the now-legal cousin of marijuana on an acre along a dirt road outside the industrial city of Flint. The endeavor wasn’t easy. Flooding from record rain stunted some plants. Crabill and others had to carefully walk […]
Drug charges dropped against Lawrence CBD store owner
Prosecutors have dropped felony drug charges against the owners of a Kansas CBD store for selling hemp flower, which looks and smells like marijuana but contains only trace amounts of THC, the compound that gives pot its high. Douglas County District Attorney Charles Branson’s office said in a brief statement Thursday that charges against Annie […]
Drug charges dropped against Lawrence CBD store owner
Prosecutors have dropped felony drug charges against the owners of a Kansas CBD store for selling hemp flower, which looks and smells like marijuana but contains only trace amounts of THC, the compound that gives pot its high. Douglas County District Attorney Charles Branson’s office said in a brief statement Thursday that charges against Annie […]
Vape pioneer peddled street drugs that sickened dozens
Some of the people rushing to emergency rooms thought the CBD vape they inhaled would help like a gentle medicine. Others puffed it for fun. What the vapors delivered instead was a jolt of synthetic marijuana, and with it an intense high of hallucinations and even seizures. More than 50 people around Salt Lake City […]
Vape pioneer peddled street drugs that sickened dozens
Some of the people rushing to emergency rooms thought the CBD vape they inhaled would help like a gentle medicine. Others puffed it for fun. What the vapors delivered instead was a jolt of synthetic marijuana, and with it an intense high of hallucinations and even seizures. More than 50 people around Salt Lake City […]
US probe of vaping illnesses focuses on THC from marijuana
U.S. health officials said their investigation into an outbreak of severe vaping-related illnesses is increasingly focused on products that contain the marijuana compound THC. Most of the 800 people who got sick vaped THC, the ingredient in marijuana that causes a high, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But officials said they […]
US probe of vaping illnesses focuses on THC from marijuana
U.S. health officials said their investigation into an outbreak of severe vaping-related illnesses is increasingly focused on products that contain the marijuana compound THC. Most of the 800 people who got sick vaped THC, the ingredient in marijuana that causes a high, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But officials said they […]
Missouri AG silent on legality of sale of CBD products
Missouri tax officials are raising questions about the legality of stores selling largely unregulated CBD-infused products. Neither the tax officials nor the state’s attorney general has been willing to release the attorney general’s legal opinion on the question. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch obtained documents in which former Missouri Department of Revenue Director Joel Walters asked [[...]
Missouri AG silent on legality of sale of CBD products
Missouri tax officials are raising questions about the legality of stores selling largely unregulated CBD-infused products. Neither the tax officials nor the state’s attorney general has been willing to release the attorney general’s legal opinion on the question. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch obtained documents in which former Missouri Department of Revenue Director Joel Walters asked [[...]
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