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Coronavirus Continues to Redefine the Cannabis Supply Chain

Coronavirus Continues to Redefine the Cannabis Supply Chain Jonathan Katz | March 20, 2020 Consumers across the U.S. are stocking up on the essentials: toilet paper, food and cannabis. That Read More

Coronavirus Guidelines for the Cannabis Industry

Coronavirus Guidelines for the Cannabis Industry Aaron Green | March 15, 2020 The World Health Organization (WHO) recently recognized COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, a pandemic. What Read More

USDA drops DEA hemp testing requirement for 2020, while FDA acknowledges demand for CBD

USDA drops DEA hemp testing requirement for 2020, while FDA acknowledges demand for CBD February 26, 2020 | Laura Drotleff Federal agriculture officials will delay the requirement that all THC Read More

Murky Waters: How “Nano” CBD Misleads Consumers

Murky Waters: How “Nano” CBD Misleads Consumers Jan 6th | Cara Wietstock The CBD industry is both exceedingly popular and exceptionally under-regulated. This combination has led to a surge of products Read More

Cannabis giant Harvest Health plans $87.5 million purchase

Cannabis giant Harvest Health plans $87.5 million purchase January 6, 2020 Harvest Health & Recreation, an Arizona-based multistate cannabis company, said Monday it is negotiating to pay $87.5 million in Read More

Congress Silently Killed Several Cannabis Reforms This Month Despite Mounting Public Support

Congress Silently Killed Several Cannabis Reforms This Month Despite Mounting Public Support Blake Dodge | 12/24/19 The House of Representatives attempted to pass cannabis reforms this month by attaching riders Read More

Cannabis industry concerned about unknowns of current flavored vape ban

Cannabis industry concerned about unknowns of current flavored vape ban Dec. 17, 2019 | Renee Sande Introduce a sleek, stylish gadget that delivers nicotine or THC, but in a smoke-Read More

Cannabis farmers scramble to protect heirloom seeds from Big Ag

Cannabis farmers scramble to protect heirloom seeds from Big Ag David Bienenstock | December 12, 2019 Every June, the cannabis software company Meadow hosts a multi-day conference in a California redwood Read More

One man’s crusade to open-source cannabis DNA

One man’s crusade to open-source cannabis DNA David Bienenstock | December 11, 2019 In the late 1990s, Kevin McKernan worked as a research and development manager on the Human Genome Read More

This company filed the first cannabis DNA patent—and nobody knows who they are

This company filed the first cannabis DNA patent—and nobody knows who they are David Bienenstock | December 10, 2019 The world first learned about Biotech Institute LLC two years ago in Read More