Pacific Biodiesel Technologies (PBT) announced the development of the first state-licensed industrial hemp farm in Maui, Hawai'i earlier this week. Maui is part of the Hawaiian archipelago and covers an area of 1,884 km². PBT founders Bob and Kelly King said the Maui hemp facility will operate under the King's...

A bill to expand Texas's medical cannabis program made it through a House Committee with unanimous support yesterday. House Bill 1365 would see more qualifying conditions added and importantly strikes the word "low-THC" from laws, replacing it with "medical".  Medical cannabis is defined in the Bill as: "..the plant Cannabis sativa L., and any...

Alabama's Department of Agriculture and Industries (ADAI) has big hopes for the state's first industrial hemp season - and plenty of participants. Commissioner Rick Pate said last week the state had licensed 152 growers, 59 processors and 5 universities to grow, cultivate, process, and research industrial hemp this year. Commissioner Pate stated...

Michigan's Governor and the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) have launched the state's Industrial Hemp Ag Pilot Program for the 2019 planting season. The call has gone out to farmers, processors and institutions of higher learning to get involved.  “This emerging crop not only cultivates new opportunity for our farming community,...

A bill signed by Georgia Governor Brian Kemp provides for the production, manufacturing, and dispensing of low THC cannabis oil in the state. Up to this point, while Georgia law authorized the legal possession of up to 20 fluid ounces of low THC (no more than 5% tetrahydrocannabinol) cannabis oil...

A survey of New Zealand medical professionals’ views on medicinal cannabis shows an increasing interest from patients and the willingness of GPs to prescribe products. The survey of 1,091 medical professionals, carried out by Horizon Research on behalf of Helius Therapeutics, found 63% of all GPs and...

The Governor of Kansas, Laura Kelly, yesterday signed the Senate Substitute for House Bill 2167, which establishes the state's Commercial Industrial Hemp Program. Last year, legislation for a hemp pilot program was signed into law. House Bill 2167 takes thing further. It requires the Kansas Department of Agriculture (KDA), after...

It's tragic and frustrating that Australia's hemp industry is threatened by idiots - it's not as though farmers don't have enough in the way of challenges. An article in the Victor Harbor Times (South Australia) details the plight of a couple of hemp farmers who have spent a big chunk...

A bill to expand Oklahoma's currently quite limited industrial hemp program has gained the green light from the House and Senate and has headed to Governor Stitt for his signature. House Bill 2913, which sought to establish the Oklahoma Industrial Hemp Agricultural Pilot Program, was signed off just under a year ago....

Transporting hemp through the U.S. state of Idaho would have been made possible if new legislation had made it across the line - but unfortunately it hasn't. While the 2018 Farm Bill removes a many restrictions related to industrial hemp at a federal level, states still have final say...