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Kristen Nichols

Kristen is a Denver-based reporter for Marijuana Business Daily specializing in the hemp and CBD industries. Previously, she worked at the Associated Press for nearly 20 years. She started covering the marijuana legalization movement in 2009 – when medical stores started popping up around Denver – and wrote about the state’s first legal hemp harvest. Kristen also covered agriculture and politics in Maryland and her home state of Georgia.

Epidiolex maker GW Pharma turns in flat second quarter on pandemic impact

Published 14 hours ago

United Kingdom-based GW Pharmaceuticals posted marginal revenue growth in the second quarter over the previous quarter, citing challenges stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Editor’s Notebook: Federal CBD inaction forcing industry to self-regulate to fight illicit competitors

Published August 4, 2020 | By Kristen Nichols

It isn’t just the guys and gals making high-THC products who confront illicit competition. Hemp entrepreneurs see it, too.

FDA approves GW Pharmaceuticals’ CBD drug for new indication

Published August 3, 2020

CBD drug Epidiolex received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat seizures associated with a third medical condition, expanding the range of indications for the cannabis-derived medication.

Fees changing for foreign temporary labor visas

Published August 3, 2020

Hemp businesses using temporary foreign workers are going to see changing fee schedules for visas starting this fall.

Chart: 2020 an ‘extinction event’ for thousands of CBD companies, but industry remains crowded

Published August 3, 2020 | By Kristen Nichols

Thousands of CBD companies in the United States will likely shutter in 2020 – but the CBD market will remain flooded with some 1,500 brands jostling for market share.

EPA funding hemp-pulping research in California

Published July 29, 2020

A project to make the process of extracting cellulose fibers from hemp more sustainable is getting a fresh round of funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Peru opens the door to CBD medicines, with commercialization imminent

Published July 13, 2020 | By Alfredo Pascual

Peru is giving hemp-derived medicines the green light, with commercialization imminent once the respective companies obtain the necessary import permits.

Odor complaints sparking talk of new ordinances in Colorado

Published July 10, 2020

Colorado officials who have long since settled how to zone marijuana cultivation to address odor complaints are starting to turn their sights to the hemp industry.

Indiana smokable hemp ban revived by federal appeals court

Published July 9, 2020 | By Kristen Nichols

Indiana’s law banning smokable hemp has come back to life after a federal appeals court ruled that a lower judge went too far in blocking it. The ruling means that Indiana can enforce its 2019 law banning the manufacture, possession and sale of smokable hemp products – while the case goes back to a lower […]