Retail sales of CBD in the United States are expected to surpass $1 billion in 2019 – a 133% increase over 2018 sales – and might eclipse $10 billion by 2024, according to projections from the newly released 2019 Hemp & CBD Industry Factbook. The recent surge of consumer demand for CBD, coupled with increasingly […]
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CBD manufacturers seek market edge touting absence of common weedkiller
A weedkiller so common in global agriculture that it turns up in rainwater and animal tissue is giving some CBD producers a strategy to stand out in a crowded market – by advertising their CBD doesn’t contain it. Several CBD producers, including RE Botanicals and Bluebird Botanicals, are rolling out product labels promoting the absence of […]
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California’s county-by-county regulatory landscape for hemp production is as varied as its actual scenery.
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Early snow threatens Western hemp, sends farmers scrambling
Hemp farmers in the Western states were frantically harvesting their crops ahead of an early-season storm threatening cold temperatures and severe wind chill, potentially dumping as much as 50 inches of snow on their fields.
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