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Walgreens joins CVS in selling CBD-infused products in select stores
By Jade ScipioniPublished March 28, 2019 Retail FOXBusiness
Walgreens Opens a New Window. is following CVS’ lead Opens a New Window. and will start selling CBD-infused products in select stores across the country as both drug chains slowly begin to dabble in the cannabis retail space.
In a statement to FOX Business, Walgreens Boots Alliances Inc. said that it will sell CBD creams, patches and sprays in nearly 1,500 stores in nine states.
Those states are Oregon, Colorado, New Mexico, Kentucky, Tennessee, Vermont, South Carolina, Illinois and Indiana. CNBC was first to report the news.
While a Walgreens spokesperson declined to comment on the specific brands it will carry, the company said that its move into the cannabis space is to provide a wider range of “accessible health and wellbeing products and services” to best meet the needs of its customers.
The news follows a similar announcement Opens a New Window. from rival drugstore chain CVS, which started selling CBD products, or products with cannabidiol, which is the non-psychoactive component of marijuana, earlier this month in select states.
CVS told FOX Business Opens a New Window. that more than 800 stores in Alabama, California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland and Tennessee will now offer CBD products as part of a distribution deal with marijuana company Curaleaf Holdings Inc.
“These products include topicals such as creams, sprays, roll-ons, lotions and salves. We are not selling any CBD-containing supplements or food additives. We have partnered with CBD product manufacturers that are complying with applicable laws and that meet CVS’s high standards for quality," CVS said in a statement.
Following the news, CVS CEO Larry Merlo said on CNBC Opens a New Window. that the move was prompted by its customers, who have used CBD products in the past and said it helped with pain relief for arthritis and other ailments.
However, Merlo said the company plans to walk "slowly" with the new initiative.
"But we think this is something that customers are going to be looking for as part of the health offering," Merlo added.
The move also comes after President Trump signed the farm bill legalizing hemp-derived CBD. However, the Food and Drug Administration has not approved CBD's use in foods or beverages.
Curaleaf announced its agreement with CVS during an earnings call last week. Curaleaf stock, which is listed in Canada, jumped on the news, giving the company a market value of more than $4 billion.
The company's CEO, Joseph Lusardi, added that it's been in dialogue with several other national retailers for many months now, in addition to CVS, and it's got a number of "potentially exciting partnerships in the pipeline."
Source: https://www.foxbusiness.com/retail/walgreens-joins-cvs-in-selling-cbd-products-in-select-stores
CVS to sell CBD products in 800 stores in 8 states
CBD-infused sprays, roll-ons, creams and salves will be offered as an 'alternative source of relief'.
March 21, 2019, 4:26 PM CDT
By Shamard Charles, M.D.
CVS Pharmacy announced Wednesday that it will begin selling hemp-derived CBD products in eight states. The national drug store chain will be marketing the topical cannabidiol products, such as creams, sprays and roll-ons, as “an alternative source of relief,” CVS said in a statement to NBC News. CVS will also be partnering with a company to test and verify the quality of the CBD topicals sold in its drug stores.
“We are carrying hemp-derived CBD products in select states to help meet consumer demand for alternative care options,” said CVS Health Spokesperson, Mike DeAngelis.
The items will be sold in Alabama, California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland and Tennessee.
CBD, or cannabidiol, comes from the hemp plant, a close relative to another member of the cannabis family, marijuana. Both plants contain abundant types of cannabinoids, but marijuana is high in the psychoactive chemical THC, while hemp is rich in CBD, the non-psychoactive component of cannabis that has generated quite a buzz for its potential medicinal benefits.
CBD has been touted as a treatment for a wide range of conditions — including anxiety, pain, inflammation and even cancer — but little reliable research has been done on CBD's effects on humans, experts say. The only FDA-approved CBD oil is Epidiolex, an oral solution prescribed for the treatment of seizures associated with two rare, severe forms of epilepsy.
“Societies have jumped far far ahead of science,” said Dr. Margaret Haney, a professor of neurobiology at Columbia University Medical Center and director of Columbia’s Marijuana Research Laboratory. “So it’s showing up in lotions and pretty much any form of product one can use. There’s a lot of different ways one could use CBD, but the ways we have studied CBD is much more limited.”
CVS has at least 9,800 stores nationwide and will soon roll out the CBD products in over 800 stores in the eight states. The health care chain says that effectiveness claims will vary from product-to-product, but that the company does not plan to market any of the items as a 'cure-all' product.
“We’re going to walk slowly, but this is something we think our customers will be looking for,” CVS Health CEO Larry Merlo said in an interview Wednesday with CNBC’s Jim Cramer.
The company noted that they would not be selling any CBD-based supplements or food additives. Under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, it is illegal to introduce drug ingredients like CBD into the food supply or to market them as dietary supplements.
“Selling unapproved products with unsubstantiated therapeutic claims is not only a violation of the law, but also can put patients at risk, as these products have not been proven to be safe or effective,” FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said in a statement in December.
For this reason, CVS will market the creams and salves as over-the-counter medicinal products, merchandised in a dedicated display.
To assure accurate labeling and safety for customers, CVS has partnered with Eurofins, a third party laboratory, to test all CBD topicals for THC, CBD content, and other contaminants, DeAngelis said in the statement to NBC News.
“We are working only with CBD product manufacturers that are complying with applicable laws and that meet CVS’s high standards for quality. Only products passing these independent tests are offered for sale in our stores,” the statement said.
Some experts believe the move by CVS to sell CBD over-the-counter may provide more questions than answers, at least initially.
“It’s a way to reduce the stigma for a product that really doesn’t deserve to be stigmatized,” said nutritionist and cannabis practitioner Brooke Alpert. “On the other hand, because of the lack of regulation it raises questions like: do people really know what they’re getting; can other brands get away with selling inferior products; and where can people find more information about these products?”
Another big concern for experts is that patients will avoid proven medications in favor of CBD.
“There have been more dangerous situations where people turn down effective medications to use unproven products, like CBD,” said Haney.
Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cvs-sell-cbd-products-800-stores-8-states-n986016
Suddenly CBD is being seen everywhere throughout America
POSTED 10:02 AM, MARCH 30, 2019, BY CNN WIRE
NEW YORK (CNN) — The CBD gold rush has begun.
CBD, the chemical found in hemp and marijuana plants, is showing up in shampoos, lattes, body oils, gummy bears and dog treats. It’s being sold in coffee shops and farmers markets, mom-and-pops plus high-end department stores and most recently, drugstore chain CVS.
“Literally overnight, you’re seeing CBD all around you and in everything,” said Troy Dayton, CEO of The Arcview Group, an Oakland, California-based cannabis investment and research firm. “This is a product that is going from relative obscurity to being on everyone’s mind: producers, consumers and especially entrepreneurs.”
The CBD floodgates opened after President Donald Trump signed the Farm Bill into law in December. Among other things, the bill legalized the production of hemp, which contains high levels of cannabidiol, or CBD. CBD is non-psychoactive, meaning it won’t get you high. (THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, is the chemical in cannabis that does that.) Instead, CBD is marketed for everything from helping to relieve pain and inflammation to reducing stress and anxiety.
Yet, the Food & Drug Administration still hasn’t decided how to regulate CBD products. In a recent interviewwith Brookings Institution, outgoing FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb said it could take several years before the agency fully legalizes CBD for use in food products and dietary supplements.
So far, little clinical research has been conducted to prove CBD’s effectiveness. Last year, the FDA approved the first drug containing CBD for the treatment of certain forms of epilepsy, but no other drugs have been approved since.
Dayton cautions that there’s also a lack of standardization in terms of recommended doses and quality control.
“As exciting as this is, it gives rise to some challenges,” he says. “Standardization and testing are important. Otherwise, it’s hard to differentiate hype from reality in terms of determining the efficacy of CBD products.”
Source: https://fox17online.com/2019/03/30/suddenly-cbd-is-being-seen-everywhere-throughout-america/
Concrete Made of Hemp Could Get EPA Funding as 'Green' Building Material
Marijuana Moment · March 30, 2019
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is funding a research project looking into the sustainable production of hempcrete, a hemp-based mixture that's better for the environment than traditional concrete.
According to a notice published on the EPA website, the agency awarded a roughly $12,000 grant to a student-led research team at the University of California, Riverside, to support a study on the use of hemp as an “industrially relevant renewable fiber for construction.”
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A Green Chemistry Approach to Pulping Hemp as an Industrially Relevant Renewable Fiber for Construction
EPA Grant Number: SU839468
Title: A Green Chemistry Approach to Pulping Hemp as an IndustriallyRelevantRenewable Fiber for Construction
Investigators: Cai, Dr.Charles
Institution: University of California - Riverside
EPA Project Officer: Page, Angela
Phase: I
Project Period: December 1, 2018 through November 30, 2019
Project Amount: $12,198
RFA: P3 Awards: A National Student Design Competition Focusing on People, Prosperity and the Planet (2018) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: P3 Awards , P3 Challenge Area - Sustainable and Healthy Communities
Objective:
Hemp fibers are an extremely strong material, boasting high lateral tensile strength, durability, and strength-to-weight ratio with studies already proving its potential as an effective renewable construction material for future buildings. Hemp fiber is an exceptional material for its sustainability as well as its useful properties and is a rotational crop that grows without the use of pesticides, requiring substantially less water than most crops. The current commercialized mechanism for producing industrial fibers from hemp is by the Kraft pulping process, a procedure matured by the paper pulp industry. This chemical pulping process involves the delignification of hemp fibers by treating hemp stalks with hot water, sodium hydroxide, and sodium sulfide across several steps. This mixture breaks the bonds that link lignin, hemicellulose, and cellulose- all of which make up the chemical composition of hemp. The Kraft pulping method provides sufficient delignification of hemp; however, the process requires many additional energy and cost intensive steps to reduce hazardous waste emissions, such as black liquor, that negatively impact the environment. In fact, 7 tons of black liquor is produced for every ton of pulp, containing concentrated sulfides required for the pulping process. In order to reuse these chemicals, pulping plants spend large amounts of energy into boiling the liquor into solids containing lignin and sulfides. Once boiled, the remaining residue is burned. This step releases organic sulfides, H2S, SO2, VOCs, NOx, and other pollutants into the atmosphere. Combustion of lignin also emits large quantities of CO2 due to lignin's 80% carbon weight ratio.
Approach:
Our proposed hemp pulping process uses Co-solvent Enhanced Lignocellulosic Fractionation (CELF) technology to allow for much cleaner and faster pulping of hemp fibers without the production of black liquor. CELF is a one-step process that fractionates lignin from plant biomass at low temperatures using renewable tetrahydrofuran (THF) in combination with very dilute sulfuric acid to aid in delignification of hemp fibers. CELF delignification performance is comparable to that of the Kraft pulping process while also producing a useful fermentable sugar solution as a byproduct, thus allowing more of the original hemp to be used before waste treatment. After the CELF reaction, dilute acid is neutralized with calcium carbonate to produce gypsum and THF can be recovered by room temperature vacuum distillation. The lignin from CELF is also a much purer more refined product than lignin recovered from Kraft pulping. Once pretreated, the hemp fibers can be added to cement as a reinforcing agent or used on its own in production of drywall or structural reinforcements, the hemp CELF lignin can be used as resin binders and concrete additive.
Expected Results:
Our project goal is to produce, hempcrete, as a lighter, stronger, and more environmentally friendly alternative to conventional fossil-based concrete.
Contribution to Pollution Prevention or Control: Our proposed process promises to reduce energy consumption and hazardous emissions associated with the conventional Kraft pulping process.
Supplemental Keywords:
green chemistry, green engineering, reinforcement, construction materials, materials and chemicals, renewable feedstock, hemp, hemp stalk, hemp fiber, hazardous waste, pulping, pretreatment, CELF
Source: https://cfpub.epa.gov/ncer_abstracts/index.cfm/fuseaction/display.abstractDetail/abstract/10943/report/0
A 2nd #EPAp3 student team @UCRiverside will study hemp fiber properties and ultimately produce hempcrete as a lighter, stronger, and more environmentally friendly alternative to conventional fossil-based concrete. https://t.co/tmt8uLX66i #STEM
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STRAINS... strains.
Strains on strains... on strains. Strains on strains on strains.
If not for strains, where for art thou? STRAINS?
Ask not what strains can do for you, but what strains can do for your country!.
Um, excuse me sir, we were told
Fins would be out in March...
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Maybe bad info? What do you think?
You think CBD from hemp is worthless? Mostly that worthless crappy CBD extracted from hemp. Derived from hemp, marijuana’s non-intoxicating cousin, CBD provides medicinal benefits without the high that comes from THC. Hemp CBD is one of the fastest-growing markets in a generation with sales projected to reach into the billions. The Hemp Business Journal has predicted that the market for CBD will grow from $390 million in 2018 to approximately $1.3 billion by 2022.
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Features Five on 5 March 28, 2019
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TRIAL WITHOUT EVIDENCE.
When is the trial date?
What are you talking about?
Mostly that worthless crappy CBD extracted from hemp.
Yeah, did they ever find evidence?
Weird, they didn't bring enough evidence when charges were pressed, and now it's been almost three years....
What's up with that?
You'd think they'd convict or settle by now. Maybe the SEC is using as much time as possible... still looking...?
Some are saying a trial is set, but I haven't been able to find a date. You?
Pretty much CBD anywhere you can find ibuprofen, and thats only one potential place CBD will be positioned on shelves.
Beverage coolers, beauty salons, and bars...
Get ready...
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Sealed With a Curse: Uproar Over USHA Certification Prompts a Do-Over
March 27, 2019
Posted by Chris Hudock
By William Sumner, Hemp Business Journal Contributor
Earlier this month, the U.S. Hemp Authority (USHA) announced 13 companies among the first to receive the organization’s quality-assurance certification seal. Claiming to ascertain high standards and promote best practices, USHA’s Certification Program aims to provide hemp farmers, processors, customers and regulators with the confidence that the products bearing the organization’s seal are safe, legal, and made according to good agricultural and manufacturing practices as established by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Yet, while the program was warmly received by the media at large, others in the hemp industry have raised concerns over what they consider to be a “pay-to-play” system that does not necessarily establish standards so high as what the USHA would profess.
In an open letter signed by 18 industry stakeholders, opposition to the program was expressed with regard to three critical issues.
Their first contention was that the program is prohibitively expensive. As described in the USHA’s three-page FAQ, participation fees require hemp companies to pay a $1,395 audit fee plus travel expenses for the auditor. Additionally, participating companies must also pay licensing fees ranging between $500-$2,500 depending on the type of business.
Though the USHA offered scholarships for auditing fees, opponents contend that they are insufficient, and that associated fees for certification discourage small farmers from participating.
Another objection raised in the letter is the USHA certification program’s lack of certain standards which opponents deem vital to quality-driven industries in the United States.
“Having been going through the USDA organic certification process, third-party audits for cGMP compliance, as well as GAP certification, I found real issues with the Hemp Authority certification,” said Janel Ralph, CEO of Palmetto Harmony and one of the 18 opposing signatories. “It was lacking in any basic standard that would be required to be called a ‘certification.’”
For example, the program does not distinguish between imported hemp versus that cultivated domestically in the United States. The program also does not explicitly ban synthetic, or non-hemp-derived CBD from receiving a certification seal. It also excludes ISO 17025 requirements, which govern the general requirements for the competence to carry out laboratory tests and calibrations.
The final issue raised in the letter is that the USHA failed to consult industry experts when crafting the program. Though the USHA invited public commentary, critics allege that its requests for input were primarily circulated within the organization itself and that guidance from the USHA’s board of directors formed the basis of the program.
Responding to the issues raised, the USHA asserts that it is new, revised Guidance Plan 2.0 “will take into account input from farmers and certified companies to further improve the certification.” The USHA added that it is including participation from many of the opponents who spoke out against the original program.
“I have been asked to be part of the technical review committee for the 2.0 version, and am hopeful that this program will become something the industry can be proud of and [that] Palmetto Harmony will participate in once fixed,” said Ralph. “In its current form, we will not pursue this certification.”
Source: https://newfrontierdata.com/marijuana-insights/sealed-with-a-curse-uproar-over-usha-certification-prompts-a-do-over/
NC Industrial Hemp Commission Meeting via Conference Call is April 2
March 27, 2019
The North Carolina Industrial Hemp Commission will hold a public meeting “to review and approve research pilot program applications.” The conference call may be joined Tuesday, April 2, 2019, 9am.
Access the conference call at go.ncsu.edu/industrialhemp or by phone at either of these US toll numbers:
1.929.205.6099
1.669.900.6833
The meeting ID is 934-641-989. Participants will be prompted to enter their name and email address to enter the meeting via the website, or prompted for a unique participant ID for the call. Press # to access the call.
With meeting questions, contact Beth Farrell at 919.707.3014.
The NC General Assembly passed Senate Bill 313 in 2015, allowing the creation of the Industrial Hemp Commission to develop the rules and licensing structure necessary to stay within federal laws. The Industrial Hemp Commission adopted temporary rules in February 2017, setting up the application requirements and process.
Speaking of his home state of North Carolina, Bruce Perlowin, CEO of Hemp, Inc., told me how his team has repurposed tobacco transplanters to drop little hemp plants or clones, 12 rows wide that are capable of planting 10 acres in 45 minutes.
Tobacco farm infrastructure can be easily repurposed, as well. Perlowin explained, "You know why a lot of American farmers fell on their face when trying to grow hemp? Because let's say five acres of hemp, you need thousands of square feet just to dry it." To use a hops dryer for hemp would be destroying the terpenes and the CBD within the plant.
"There's no other choice to get a high-quality product and that your hand dry just sang and dry for a week, cure it, and burp it every day for two weeks and the right humidity and the right temperature, and all the old North Carolina tobacco drying barns can, and are being converted to do that," Perlowin revealed, "Because in North Carolina, tobacco is no longer king, hemp is king."
Tenn. hemp production applications jump tenfold in a single year
By MIKE OSBORNE
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (OSBORNE) -- The number of Tennessee farmers seeking a license to grow hemp is exploding.
The state Department of Agriculture reports it’s ssued nearly 2800 hemp production permits this year, with still more applications in the pipeline. That’s ten times the number of licenses issued in 2018.
Hemp’s introduction hasn’t been without complications. There have been persistent reports of police mistaking hemp products for marijuana. There have also been reports of hemp supplement users failing workplace drug tests.
A lawsuit is pending against several Rutherford County agencies over a 2018 police raid targeting hemp products for personal consumption. Officials padlocked 19 convenience stores wrongly assuming hemp items they sold were illegal.
In spite of those hiccups, Middle Tennessee State Center for Botanical Medicine Research Director Elliot Altman says Tennessee leads the country on hemp adoption.
“I think Tennessee is one of the top two states in the nation as far as getting it right in having all the required parts and places to truly make us a hemp state.”
“The panels, the dashes, the headliners all that stuff in their cars that require a petroleum based plastic, well you can get the same thing out of industrial hemp. We could fulfill that need.”
Lawmakers approve bill allowing Florida farmers to grow hemp
SB 1020 would create framework for Florida's emerging hemp industry.
JIM SAUNDERS NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA MAR 26, 2019 12 PM
Looking at a potentially lucrative new industry, lawmakers are working on rules for farmers and businesses to grow and sell industrial hemp in Florida.
The Senate Agriculture Committee on Monday approved a bill (SB 1020) that would create a regulatory framework for the industry, which is emerging after a federal law last year legalized industrial hemp as an agricultural product. In doing so, Congress effectively separated industrial hemp, a type of cannabis, from marijuana that can get users high.
Supporters say hemp can be used in a variety of products such as rope, animal feed, building materials and clothing —- and could be a boon as a new crop for farmers. For example, some Northwest Florida lawmakers have started touting hemp as a crop that could help farmers and timber operators who sustained massive damage in October’s Hurricane Michael.
The House Agriculture & Natural Resources Subcommittee is scheduled to take up a similar bill (HB 333) on Tuesday. “The intent here is to get this emerging industry to be viable in the state of Florida and for us to be as cutting edge as possible while also respecting the guiderails … that the federal government has provided in this situation,” Senate sponsor Rob Bradley, R-Fleming Island, said. “We’re going to push it. We’re going to keep pushing it.”
The bill would give regulatory oversight to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, which is headed by Commissioner Nikki Fried, a major supporter of cannabis. In part, the bill would require people or businesses to register with the department if they want to grow, process or sell hemp and would require background checks every two years.
Also, they would have to agree to allow department representatives and law-enforcement officials to enter their premises to conduct inspections and to make sure requirements are followed. The bill also would require a program involving the certification of hemp seeds and create an industrial hemp advisory board.
In addition, it would set the stage for submitting a required plan to the federal government for the state to regulate hemp production. Sen. Doug Broxson, a Gulf Breeze Republican who serves on the Agriculture Committee, praised the approach the bill would take. “I think we’re all in a kind of a new era in Florida, and we need to do it right,” he said.
Bradley also has been a key player in recent years in developing Florida’s medical-marijuana laws. While the medical-marijuana industry is growing quickly after passage of a 2016 constitutional amendment that legalized medical cannabis, the state has faced numerous regulatory and legal challenges in recent years.
Bradley tried Monday to clearly separate medical marijuana from industrial hemp. “These (proposed hemp regulations) are not meant to be onerous. This is not a reflection of the medical-marijuana system. That is a medicine, a controlled substance, and this is different,” Bradley said. “But it’s also not the same as growing apples or oranges, either, until we evolve this industry and get to a point where perhaps it will be that one day.”
Source: https://www.cltampa.com/news-views/florida-news/article/21061463/lawmakers-approve-bill-allowing-florida-farmers-to-grow-hemp
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How Hemp Is Giving Renewed Life To America's Tobacco Farmers
Andre Bourque
Mar 25, 2019, 02:58pm
In the whirlwind end to 2018, United States Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made two fateful pushes—in opposite directions—for the burgeoning cannabis industry.
On the one hand, in a shock to no one, McConnell blocked the States Act, a banking reform amendment that would have abolished the barriers to interstate marijuana commerce, including restrictions on the banks providing services to the marijuana industry. In 2014, the last time the Speaker of the House was up for re-election, McConnell informed reporters that legalizing marijuana at the federal level would be “giving up,” with the justification that the end of prohibition would “completely transform your society in a way that I think certainly most Kentuckians would not agree with.”
Five years is a long time in politics, though, and in some regards, McConnell and the rest of the Senate are starting to change their tune about parts of the cannabis industry—namely, hemp.
Speaking last year before the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill, Mitch McConnell justified his position on new position hemp, which for decades was a Schedule I drug along with its cousin, marijuana: “At a time when farm income is down and growers are struggling, industrial hemp is a bright spot of agriculture’s future. My provision in the farm bill will not only legalize domestic hemp, but it will also allow state departments of agriculture to be responsible for its oversight.”
McConnell became personally involved in the creation of the 2018 Farm Bill in part because his home state of Kentucky is feeling the pinch of President Trump’s trade wars. Kentucky has a strong agricultural economy, with over 76,000 farms that grow corn, soybeans, and support thousands of pigs, horses, and cows. Last year, according to the Kentucky Soybean Association, Kentucky’s soybean farmers stood to lose up to $200 million.
Perhaps its most famous crops are its burley and fire-cured tobacco products—Kentucky tops the nation for these types of tobacco. For the thousands of tobacco farmers in the state, though, the allure is tobacco as a cash crop is starting to wane. These days, fewer people are smoking than ever. In 2017, according to the CDC, 14% of American adults smoked cigarettes, which is a sharp decrease from the 20.9% of American adults who smoked in 2005. As a result, the number of Kentucky tobacco farms over the last century have declined nearly 90%.
Even though many Kentucky tobacco farmers have been harvesting the plant for generations, they’re willing to give it up for, hemp, the newest crop on the block, courtesy of their state’s Senator.
How hemp got to Kentucky
Hemp was first grown in Kentucky in 1775, and up through the early twentieth century, it was a staple of the state’s economy and culture. With a large slave population, Kentuckians were able to harvest massive amounts of labor-intensive crops like hemp, tobacco, and cotton. In fact, according to historian James Hopkins, “Without hemp, slavery might have not flourished in Kentucky, since other agricultural products of the state were not conducive to the extensive use of bondsmen.”
Now, hemp is making a comeback, thanks to high demand for hemp-derived CBD oil, and big profits farmers can’t find with crops affected by the tariff wars. The global industrial hemp market is expected to explode to over $10 billion dollars by 2025, while the market for CBD will jump from nearly $600 million in 2018 to $22 billion by 2022.
For farmers like Tennessean Kyle Owen, tobacco stopped paying the bills, so he quickly turned to industrial hemp cultivation as soon as it was available. Kentucky farmer Will Brownlow started with 10 acres of hemp in 2016, but ramped up to 60-80 acres this year, comprising nearly a quarter of his farmable land.
With the Farm Bill passed, the Kentucky Department of Agriculture is betting big of hemp cultivation in 2019. The KDA approved over a thousand applications, and those farmers will put down over 42,000 acres and 2.9 million square feet of greenhouse space for hemp cultivation.
That much hemp will require a lot of hard work to keep away weeds (pesticides and herbicides aren’t allowed) and to harvest. Since hemp cultivation has been largely outlawed for the last 80 years, farmers haven’t developed the same level of sophisticated machinery for hemp as they use to harvest other crops. Kentucky farmers have a small head start, thanks to the state’s many tightly controlled pilot programs for growing industrial hemp since 2014.
Repurposing tobacco farming equipment
Now, as farmers move en masse to hemp, they’re adapting the tools of tobacco cultivation to suit their new crop.
Depending on what the hemp is being used for—fibers, seeds, etc.—the manner of harvesting changes. According to the National Hemp Association, when harvesting for fibers, a sickle-bar mower or hay swather may be used to cut the stalks, and a baler can be used to collect the stalks in the field. On the other hand, when harvesting seeds, a combine can be used, but the tough stalks of the plant can quickly wear down the machine.
The original KIRPY tobacco harvester offered by Triminator, for example, has been re-engineered and strengthened to meet the unique demands of the hemp plant. The result is the KIRPY CBD hemp harvester that can be raised and lowered to adapt to field and crop conditions.
Speaking of his home state of North Carolina, Bruce Perlowin, CEO of Hemp, Inc., told me how his team has repurposed tobacco transplanters to drop little hemp plants or clones, 12 rows wide that are capable of planting 10 acres in 45 minutes.
Tobacco farm infrastructure can be easily repurposed, as well. Perlowin explained, "You know why a lot of American farmers fell on their face when trying to grow hemp? Because let's say five acres of hemp, you need thousands of square feet just to dry it." To use a hops dryer for hemp would be destroying the terpenes and the CBD within the plant.
"There's no other choice to get a high-quality product and that your hand dry just sang and dry for a week, cure it, and burp it every day for two weeks and the right humidity and the right temperature, and all the old North Carolina tobacco drying barns can, and are being converted to do that," Perlowin revealed, "Because in North Carolina, tobacco is no longer king, hemp is king."
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrebourque/2019/03/25/how-hemp-is-giving-renewed-life-to-americas-tobacco-farmers/#434da3f84726
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How many cents should HEMP be?
Infinity cents? Zero cents?
You decide.
They have been shipping products to multiple locations for months.
You see the fins? 50% quarterly rev growth, and it's from SECONDARY products. Some say there are 20,000 products to choose from, or maybe more!
Now that industrial hemp finally crawled out from under pilot programs and will be going mainstream rapidos, Hemp Inc is in prime position in MULTIPLE states, with a lot of relationships, hard work, and harvests. Hemp Inc's farmers network can scale-up very fast.
Let's keep in mind, the industrial hemp industry was just approved on the federal level just a couple of months ago, and they still have a few things to sort out.
Fear not, the industry is coming full steam. Keep in mind, Hemp Inc has several harvests to tally, and I kinda get the feeling that organic certs might be right around the corner, on top of a good chunk of a projected MULTI BA-BA-BA-BA-BILLION DOLLAR industry.
We've all been waiting...
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All paper.
Toilet paper, tissue paper, paper plates, paper towels, napkins, envelopes, books, newspapers, on and on and on the list never ends.
Thats not all; diapers.
Everyones gotta poop, maybe the most important thing we do as humans, besides procration.
"What else", you ask?
Wrapping paper. Thats right, all the wrapping paper for all the gifts you could ever imagine. Jolly me, you could even place your hemp wrapped gifts under the artificial xmas tree, made with hemp.
Oh, you ordered from Amazon? Great, your package will arrive in a hemp box.
Maybe companies should be printing paper shares made with hemp. Would do the earth a lot of good. Why stop there? Cash money, made from hemp.
20,000 uses might be on the low end, wouldn't you say?
Research shows farmers could make up to $60,000 per acre in this business.
NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS SEE HEMP AS NEXT BIG CASH CROP
By WWAY News - March 22, 2019 5:30 PM
BRUNSWICK COUNTY, NC (WWAY) — The 2018 Farm Bill, passed in December, removed hemp from the list of controlled substances.
Since then, hundreds of North Carolina farmers are looking into growing the plant. So will this be the new cash crop of the future?
North Carolina allows farmers to grow hemp with an industrial research purpose, but research is ongoing about the safety of this plant and studies show this could cost a pretty penny for those trying to get started.
NC State University, the Industrial Hemp Commission, and the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services are leading the state’s pilot program.
Any farmers wishing to grow hemp must follow strict guidelines including having all plantings subject to THC sampling at any time with no prior warning.
“I’m currently doing construction work but we have a bunch of farm land that has been in the family for quite some time and my father-in-law he’s a former tobacco farmer, so we figured we’d kind of just explore the economic benefits of growing hemp,” Hemp Farmer Moses Frazier said.
Research shows farmers could make up to $60,000 per acre in this business.
Hemp can be used for more than 20,000 possible applications related to seed, fiber or floral material.
Source: https://www.wwaytv3.com/2019/03/22/north-carolina-farmers-see-hemp-as-next-big-cash-crop/
CVS Ignores DEA, Says It’s Already Selling CBD Products
BRUCE BARCOTT
March 22, 2019
The US Drug Enforcement Administration may still consider CBD an illegal, Schedule I drug, but the national drugstore chain CVS apparently disagrees.
America’s largest drugstore retailer confirmed earlier this week that it’s selling CBD products in at least eight states and will soon carry CBD products from Curaleaf. Those states include Alabama, California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, and Tennessee. Curaleaf is a national brand that operates state-licensed, full-THC cannabis dispensaries in 11 states.
Marketwatch’s Max A. Cherney reported:
“We have partnered with CBD product manufacturers that are complying with applicable laws and that meet CVS’s high standards for quality,” a spokesman said in the email.
Independent health food and supplement stores have long carried hemp-derived CBD products, but this week’s news marks the first time a high-profile national chain has come out and acknowledged carrying CBD products on store shelves. (Amazon, meanwhile, has long sold CBD oil through its online marketplace.)
The news comes at a time when the legal status of CBD, a medically potent cannabinoid derived from the cannabis plant, remains murky under both state and federal law.
Amy Wazwaz, who owns the stores with her husband, said police seized more than $50,000 worth of CBD products.
“They took everything that was remotely related to CBD,” Wazwaz said, adding that she would have allowed the police to test anything in her stores, if they’d simply asked.
Police have made no arrests, but noted in a statement that the investigation is still ongoing and evidence is being processed.
Interesting movement here EOW...
News?
FAKE NEWS
Perdue’s comments follow last week’s hemp program and 2018 Farm Bill webinar, in which hemp industry leaders including Prof. Gailm Rutland, VT. told the USDA what is needed in hemp regulation.
Zero product. Zero sales. Canadian.
Maybe next year they can win an award.
Keeping up... lol.
There are several companies in NV with ties to industrial hemp. You don't need the actual list, just pick the one you think is doing the best job for the industry in the state.
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Who in Nevada, besides Bruce, should have won?
Was it a surprise that Bruce is well connected and well recognized in a state he has been involved with for years?
I don't see the problem. Whalen is also there to help support and promote the industry in his local area, and heads the local association. He is sourcing hemp through Hemp Inc, and working in tandem to promote the industry through the association, obviously with Hemp Inc the one that has had the most impact for him, his organization, and the local industry.
And that's why Bruce won, and no one else.
I'll ask again: who in Nevada, besides Bruce, should have won instead?
Buyer? As in customer? Buying what? Anything available which shows Whalen purchasing anything from Bruce or Hemp Inc?
What are you talking about?
I think we all know how awards work.
You put in the most effort and you gain the most exposure in your arena, you're bound to get recognized.
Who was runner-up to Bruce? Or, you saying someone else in NV was more deserving, like who?
I know, not everyone can win 1st place, so maybe others will win next year.
I agree, Vermont could use more reputable hemp associations. It's why most people are publicly demanding Hemp, Inc to open its doors in VT.
One thing is for sure, seeds go in the ground in a couple of weeks, and revenues to follow. LEGAL, NATIONAL revenues. 50% quarterly growth so far, with the secondary goods. Hemp is next.
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Awards lately?
Ay, Bruce, when we gonna start winning awards in Vermont? Lol
Hemp Inc should sponsor and use as company plane.
Only contingency is plane has to run on hemp bio-diesel and Schmitt has to pilot.
Think how easy it would be to get from Oregon to Vermont! LMAO!
Do planes even fly in Vermont?
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