(Editor’s note: This story is part of a recurring series of commentaries from professionals connected to the hemp industry. Larry and Jackie Berg are co-founders of CBD Marketing Hub, a digital-to-door agency focused on CBD and cannabis marketing.) Seismic advancements have dominated the CBD market over the past decade with some of the industry’s largest brands seeing […]
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Report: CBD energy drinks sell quickly in Queen Elizabeth’s farm shop
Hemp-derived CBD energy drinks manufactured by the UK brand Trip have been stocked in Queen Elizabeth II’s Windsor Farm Shop, UK tabloid The Sun reported.
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Oregon hemp farmer to lead Farm Bureau’s young growers committee
Jon Iverson, a 34-year-old grower whose family farm grows industrial hemp and other crops, has been elected to serve as chair of the American Farm Bureau’s Young Farmers & Ranchers Committee.
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Brexit creates CBD regulatory mess for UK market
If the CBD market is any indication of how other sectors will be affected by the United Kingdom’s divorce from the European Union, buckle your seatbelts. Supply-chain slowdowns and lockdowns due to the Covid-19 pandemic have already made doing business in the UK a challenge. Under the latest Brexit trade deal, though, shipping, customs, tariffs […]
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Reports: French energy startup nets €18.8 million to launch hemp-fueled plant
Qairos Energies, a startup with aspirations of using agricultural biomass to produce methane and hydrogen in northwestern France, has raised nearly €18.8 million ($23 million) to build and launch a facility that will use local hemp to make fuel for buses, trains and France’s chief natural gas distributor.
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New industry group in Spain aims to change government’s flower opposition
A new industry group in Spain aims to change the government’s flower opposition.
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California lawsuit over hemp destruction on hold
A California hemp grower is suing a sheriff’s office, alleging the authorities destroyed about 500 acres of their plants, which the company estimates were worth $1 billion, according to the lawsuit.
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Venture capital firm Canopy Rivers sells 49% stake in Italian processor to RAMM Pharma
RAMM Pharma, a cannabis-based pharmaceutical company with products in several Latin American countries, has bought a 49% stake in the Sicilian CBD processing company Canapar.
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Study suggests West Coast hemp growers escaped smoke damage from wildfires
Preliminary data out of Oregon suggests that industrial hemp crops may have been spared major damage from the West Coast wildfires that blazed across California, Oregon and Washington and endangered outdoor cannabis operations last year.
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Bankrupt GenCanna drops suit against MedTerra, calls CBD company ‘long-term partner’
GenCanna, a Kentucky hemp and CBD company that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in February, has dropped a suit against CBD company Medterra for unpaid invoices worth $4.5 million. GenCanna, now known as OGGUSA Inc., had sued Medterra last month, alleging that the latter failed to pay for shipments of CBD extracts and other products […]
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Cannabis firm Canopy Growth sues GW Pharma, claiming patent infringement
(This story originally appeared at Marijuana Business Daily.) Canadian cannabis producer Canopy Growth Corp. is suing UK-based GW Pharmaceuticals in U.S. federal court, alleging that GW is knowingly infringing upon Canopy’s intellectual property. GW used a Canopy-patented method to extract the CBD that’s the active ingredient in its Epidiolex medication, according to a complaint filed […]
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New California cannabis health warning label requirement could trigger swell of industry lawsuits
A version of this story first appeared at Marijuana Business Daily. California’s hemp-derived CBD manufacturers are at risk of legal “whiplash,” one industry attorney says, after a new mandate requiring health warning labels for all cannabis products sold in the state took effect on Sunday. The labels have legal roots dating back more than three […]
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