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Newsletter September 2, 2020,
Love In the Time of 0.3% THC
By Doug Fine, Author, American Hemp Farmer
I just waved goodbye to our state hemp inspector, a delightful, overworked woman in a successful program. I’d call our New Mexico hemp effort top-tier, with everyone at the New Mexico Department of Agriculture wanting farmers to succeed. More than two thousand acres are sequestering carbon as we speak in the Land of Enchantment. In terms of stress, the worst part of having a hemp inspection, for me, is having to shave and put on clean clothes. OK, clothes at all.
On Campfires, Hemp and Cooling the Globe
By Ron Alcalay, Ph.D., Founder and CEO, Vital Hemp
I went camping with my nine-year-old daughter about a month ago, up the California coast to Big Sur. We enjoyed my favorite trail up a river gorge to a large swimming hole, and in the evening ate s’mores around the campfire. For a few days, we almost forgot the worries of the world, that would intrude, like the asthma attacks I suffered inexplicably every night.
Hemp Legislative Language Stalled in California
By Steven Hoffman
After intense negotiations in late August with California Governor Gavin Newsom’s team, hemp industry leaders were feeling bullish that they had struck an eleventh-hour deal to prevent undue restrictions on the sale of hemp and CBD products in the state of California.
They also were hopeful that proposed legislative language favorable to the industry would be passed before the state legislature took its final recess for the year on August 31.
However, despite much effort by industry leaders and lobbyists, the proposed language failed to pass “for the time being” that “would explicitly permit the retail sale of hemp-derived CBD as a dietary supplement, cosmetic and food and beverage additive,” the U.S. Hemp Roundtable announced on September 1.
NEWS ROUNDUP
Virginia Congressman Introduces Hemp Opportunity Zone Act in U.S. House of Representatives
By WSET13 TV, ABC News
Republican Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado Calls on USDA to Protect Hemp Industry
By Western Ag Network
Senator Jon Tester Joins Groundbreaking Ceremony for IND HEMP Fiber Decortication Facility in Fort Benton, MT
By Great Falls Tribune
Big Sur Scientific Develops Roadside Test for Law Enforcement to Distinguish between Hemp and Marijuana
By Cannabis Science and Technology
Panda Biotech Chooses Wichita Falls, TX, for $110 Million Industrial Hemp Processing Facility
By Times New Record News, Wichita Falls, TX
KYHIA Rebranding to Create Statewide Kentucky Hemp Organization
By Kentucky Hemp Industries Association
National Hemp Association Presents Positive Future at Annual Meeting
By National Hemp Association
KUNC Broadcasts Four-part Series on Colorado’s Hemp Industry
By KUNC, Greeley, CO
Are America’s Farmers Being Unfairly Penalized Because of Government’s Worries Over THC?
By Leafreport
Podcast: Hemp Can Build Back a Better Economy, Ecology and Society
By Natural Products Insider
Hemp Traders Announces New Line of American Made Hemp Fabrics
By Hemp Traders
Germany’s Hempro International Sues City of Düsseldorf Over CBD Ban
By Hemp Today
EVENTS
Emerge Virtual Cannabis Conference and Expo, Sept 8-10, 2020, Plus 90-day Expo
Hempstory VII – Connections for a Successful Harvest!, Sept. 10, 2020, 1:00 pm – 3:30pm PDT
Advancing Industrial Hemp 2020 Virtual Event, Presented by Acres, USA, Oct. 5, 2020
NoCo Hemp Expo – NoCo7, March 25-27, 2021, National Western Complex, Denver, CO
Southern Hemp Expo, Aug. 20-21, 2021, Nashville, TN
Read the Let’s Talk Hemp Summer Solstice 2020 Digital Magazine
The hemp industry proves that, even in a world beset by pandemics and racial injustice, human and planetary healing can and will triumph. Read all about it in the Let’s Talk Hemp Summer Solstice 2020 Digital Magazine, produced in conjunction with the Experience Hemp Summer Solstice Virtual Conference & Trade Show, Let’s Talk Hemp Media, and NoCo Hemp Expo, in partnership with Honeysuckle Magazine.
Featuring testimony from industry experts across diverse disciplines, Let’s Talk Hemp’s Summer Solstice edition dives into the pressing questions of the day. What is the future of hemp in a post-COVID world? What does Black representation in hemp look like, and how can we create opportunities for social equity? How can we take the next steps toward a regenerative society and integrative medicine? The answers may surprise you.
Read the Let’s Talk Hemp Summer Solstice 2020 Digital Magazine Here.
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