North Dakota's Department of Agriculture has put out a call for applications for the state's 2019 industrial hemp pilot program. In the early 1900’s, industrial hemp was grown extensively in North Dakota but then ceased to due draconian laws that lumped the crop in with marijuana. Industrial hemp cultivation was...

Australian Greens leader Dr. Richard Di Natale has written to ALP leader Bill Shorten about collaborating on improving access to medical cannabis in the country. The letter, also addressed to Shadow Minister for Health and Medicare, Catherine King, states: "The current pathway through which Australian access medicinal cannabis, through the...

The battle to reintroduce industrial hemp cultivation to Idaho has gone on for nearly twenty years. It could soon draw to a close, and victory. Idaho is one of the last hemp holdout states in the USA. As we reported in late January, forty-one states have removed some or many barriers to industrial...

Cann Group Limited (ASX:CAN) announced on Tuesday its intention to purchase a site located within the Mildura region in the Australian state of Victoria with view to constructing a large-scale medical cannabis cultivation and production facility. The company has entered into a Heads Of Agreement (basically an agreement about...

An ASX-listed company's subsidiary has been granted an industrial hemp licence - but it's not in Australia. CropLogic Limited (ASX:CLI) says its Oregonian subsidiary LogicalCropping LLC has been provided a registered industrial hemp growers licence by the Oregon Department of Agriculture. The firm states it is one of the...

Pyxus International, Inc. announced last week the opening of its affiliate Criticality LLC's industrial hemp extraction and purification facility, which has been established in Wilson, North Carolina.  The 55,000 square foot  facility will be used to produce Criticality's line of cannabidiol oil (CBD) products, as well as develop new products in...

The most recently available data from Health Canada reveals some interesting information on medical cannabis sales in the country. In October last year, the Canadian Government launched a national Cannabis Tracking System with view to preventing legal cannabis winding up on the illegal market and to keep illegal cannabis out of the...

In just one month, the number of medical cannabis patient applications approved in the U.S. state of Oklahoma has grown by nearly 20,000. Last month we reported the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority (OMMA) had received 57,401 applications, 43,840 of which had been approved as at February 11. There were also...

On Tuesday, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem vetoed House Bill 1191 that would have allowed industrial hemp to be grown and processed in the state. The bill went to the Governor after passing muster in the Senate last week after some confusion, and it then went back to the House...

Hawai‘i's Department of Health recently began accepting and processing registrations from qualified out-of-state patients for its medical cannabis program. Patients whose applications are accepted will be able to legally acquire medical cannabis from any licensed retail dispensaries while visiting the islands. The announcement coincided with the launch of a...