4 Jan 2019

Here Comes Hemp: Congress Votes to Unchain a Billion-Dollar Industry

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Here Comes Hemp: Congress Votes to Unchain a Billion-Dollar Industry | Phillip Smith

WASHINGTON, DC — The Senate on Tuesday and the House on Wednesday gave final approval to the massive 2018 Farm Bill, including a provision that will end an eight-decade ban on industrial hemp, that non-psychoactive but extremely useful member of the cannabis family. President Trump is expected to sign the bill into law. Even though you […]

Here Comes Hemp: Congress Votes to Unchain a Billion-Dollar Industry | The Daily Chronic

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26 May 2015

Marijuana incorporated: cannabis eases into a billion-dollar business high

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Marijuana incorporated: cannabis eases into a billion-dollar business high
Stuart Tomc, vice-president of Human Nutrition at CannaVest, which develops and sells hemp-based products, offers a sample at the Expo at the Hilton Chicago. Photograph: …. “It means we need to grow it, and produce it and package it all inside each …
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Stevia Corp. Discusses Partnership Plans While Continuing to Implement a …
Although it is legal to import and sell industrial hemp products in the U.S., it is not yet legal to commercially grow industrial hemp in the U.S. The 2013 farm bill was signed into law in February 2014 and contained a hemp amendment, Sec. 7606 …
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Why can't Texans grow hemp?
Shouldn't Texas farmers be allowed to grow and sell hemp? Farmers in Colorado, and university researchers in both Kentucky and Colorado, recently harvested their first legal hemp crops, just months after Congress voted to allow hemp cultivation where …
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