In an unprecedented effort, thousands of private scientific companies across the world have put business-as-usual on hold and diverted their resources to help manage the Covid-19 crisis. Distilleries are formulating hand sanitizers, car manufacturers are building ventilators, and laboratories from all walks of science have pivoted to producing coronavirus test...
UNITED STATES, August 20, 2019 (HEMP INDUSTRY DAILY)- Hemp businesses should have access to banking services, a top banking regulator reiterated this week amid ongoing complaints about banking and credit challenges in the newly legal industry.
The National Credit Union Association (NCUA), an independent federal agency that oversees and insures banking deposits for...
CANADA, October 17, 2019 (BOTANIQMAG) Today Canada celebrates the one year anniversary of recreational cannabis becoming legal in the country. It also marks the second wave of legalization, welcoming cannabis edibles, topicals and extracts to the legal realm.
The industry is blossoming, and with that has come employment opportunities.
Universities are...
U.S, May 5, 2020 (GREENMARKETREPORT) Gift-giving can be a stressful exercise, particularly when you want your gift to make a statement and even more so when that statement is along the lines of “Thank you for giving me life, keeping me alive, and making my life better.”...
U.S, May 13, 2020 (CANNABISTECH) Social distancing edicts and general consumer anxiety are changing the way consumers obtain their cannabis supplies.
Online ordering platforms are now the retail destinations of choice for individuals who can legally purchase cannabis supplies, whether for...
US, January 1, 2021 (CANNABISNOW) Patent law is a dense subject, but it’s important to understand as cannabis becomes increasingly commercial — and concerns rise that large corporations could claim swatches of the plant as their own.
Amid the quick expansion of...
U.S, April 6, 2020 (ANALYTICALCANNABIS) The number of American adolescents who vape cannabis or use cannabis edibles has increased in recent years, while the number smoking cannabis has declined, say the authors of a new research letter published in JAMA Pediatrics.
The accessibility of...
U.S, October 1, 2019 (CANNABISNOW) - In the past few years, legal cannabis has emerged as a booming global industry, despite the fact that it remains prohibited both by U.S. federal law and the UN Single Convention treaty from 1961. This is a growing contradiction on the world stage, and...
U.S, April 30, 2020 (MERRYJANE) As part of the Golden State’s expungement program to remove low-level, nonviolent weed offenses from residents’ criminal records, Santa Clara County just cleared over 11,000 convictions, affecting more than 9,000 individuals.
Santa Clara County in California...
U.S Jnauary 20, 2021, (HEMPINDUSTRY) Over and over again I meet hemp growers who are not yet aware of a widespread disease that has been appearing more and more across the United States – Hop Latent Viroid (HpLVd).
Viroids are not viruses, but rather...