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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.

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 […]

Texas town authorizes $2.8 million to lure decortication plant

Published July 8, 2020

A north Texas town courting a new hemp decortication facility has authorized $2.8 million worth of incentives to lure Panda Biotech to its town.

How to avoid heavy-metal accumulation in your hemp crop

Published July 8, 2020 | By Derek Du Chesne

How to avoid heavy-metal accumulation in your hemp crop.

Canadian MJ firm settles hemp joint venture in time for 2020 production

Published July 7, 2020

A Canadian MJ company planning to start hemp production, Pac Roots Cannabis Corp., has settled a joint venture in British Columbia in time to grow and sell hemp products in 2020.

Hemp transportation case ends in plea deal on related charges

Published July 6, 2020

Hemp transportation case in South Dakota ends in plea deal on related charges.

Overheard at HIDC: Hemp industry must guard against cutting corners

Published July 1, 2020

Hemp industry must guard against cutting corners, says the CEO of Victory Hemp Foods.

Editor’s Notebook: Why the hemp industry is well positioned for an extended recession

Published July 1, 2020 | By Kristen Nichols

Reading the business-page headlines these days, hemp pioneers can be forgiven for chuckling at how large and esteemed industries have no idea how they’ll survive when faced with the kinds of challenges hemp entrepreneurs have been dealing with for decades.

Oregon hemp producer leverages partnerships, retail presence to get national exposure, expand its footprint

Published June 30, 2020 | By Adrian D. Garcia

East Fork Cultivars is a respected cannabis cultivator in the Pacific Northwest, and in the months ahead, the family behind the company wants to win over the rest of the country.

Overheard at HIDC: Hemp sales jobs are hot, while cultivation sector getting crowded

Published June 29, 2020

The listing economy has job-seekers flooding into the marijuana and hemp sectors looking for work. Savvy operators already in the industry are shifting roles to stay employed and get an edge on the competition.

Overheard at HIDC: Lawyers can bite even if FDA doesn’t

Published June 29, 2020

CBD manufacturers in the U.S. have more to worry about than confusing regulations about how the extract can be legally made and sold.

Hemp Industry Daily Conference Direct keynote speaker Dia Simms calls for cannabis industry to ‘be audacious’

Published June 29, 2020

The Hemp Industry Daily Conference Direct and MJBizConNEXT Direct kicked off today with a virtual keynote speech from Dia Simms, an award-winning entrepreneur and member of BRN Group, a New York-based cannabis tech company. Simms called on the cannabis industry to move in unison to overcome over a century of stigma, to think bigger and […]

Atlanta hemp company taps industry insider to test, validate CBD line

Published June 29, 2020

The president of the Cannabinoid Industry Association is joining an Atlanta-based hemp company, Verde Leaf, to lead testing and product development for a new subsidiary making CBD products. Priscilla Agoncillo will be board chairwoman and president of Medadex Pharma, a new subsidiary of the privately-held hemp grower and processor. Agoncillo will remain president of CBDIA’s […]