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Kansas opens first industrial hemp academy to promote alternative crop - Cannabis News

“We actually teach our students how to plant the seed properly, how to cultivate the seed properly, how to harvest the crop properly and then what to do with the crop after it’s harvest,” said America’s Hemp Academy founder Joe Bisogno, Founder.

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Trump officially legalizes industrial hemp - Cannabis News

President Trump legalized the cultivation of industrial hemp Thursday when he signed a widespread, bipartisan farm bill aimed at boosting the agriculture industry.

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Hemp, a form of cannabis, to become legal with Trump's signature on Farm Bill - Cannabis News

Hemp advocates held a news conference Thursday in Denver to tout the expected legalization and thank Trump in advance for signing the bill. The president is expected to sign the bill next week.

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Favoring female flowers in hemp horticulture - Cannabis News

A UConn plant science professor working with hemp plants has developed a way to maximize the production of female flowers, which produce significantly higher quantities of cannabinoids than male flowers.

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Hemp on Wheels - Cannabis News

Hemp holds a lot of promise as a material for the auto industry. It’s very strong and has a high tensile modulus, which is the ratio of stress to elastic strain in a material.

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Can Legal Hemp Save Agriculture? - Cannabis News

“In the U.S., we do everything with hemp -- we eat it, we wear it -- yet we haven’t been able to grow it. So we import approximately $60 million worth of hemp from overseas."

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Hemp is being touted as the Midwest’s next big cash crop. What would that mean for the environment? - Cannabis News

Congress could substantially help the industry by legalizing it nationwide, an idea approved in the GOP-led U.S. Senate this year, but one that hasn’t made it to the president’s desk.

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Hemp Comes Home to the Bluegrass State - Cannabis News

Legal hemp has returned to Kentucky. Will the Feds step aside and let the industry flourish?

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Medical marijuana insurance in Florida? Lawmakers, agriculture commissioner pushing for it - Cannabis News

On 14 plots scattered across Pennsylvania this year, farmers reintroduced what was once a dominant cash crop to the state: industrial hemp, the straight-laced, non-psychoactive cannabis cousin of marijuana.

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Oregon officials say psilocybin may be an effective treatment for some psychiatric illnesses

Hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD) is projected to be a billion dollar market in just three years in a new report by the data company Brightfield Group.

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Democratic Senate candidate smokes marijuana in new ad highlighting disparity and reform

Last weekend brought Seattle Hempfest—AKA the biggest annual cannabis event on the planet—to the Seattle waterfront, for three days of pro-cannabis outreach, activism, music, mingling, marketing, and glorious sunshine.

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First public hemp building in the U.S. opens in Idaho - Cannabis News

KETCHUM, Idaho (KBOI) — It began when 26-year-old Mattie Mead discovered that hemp could be used as a building material his senior year of college.

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The Industrial Hemp Farming Act is back — is this the year Congress legalizes the crop? - Cannabis News

A bipartisan group of lawmakers are again calling for industrial hemp to be legally separated from marijuana in the Controlled Substances Act, and advocates believe they might just have the political momentum to succeed.

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Solemnizing hemp's nutritional properties on World Vegan Month

BISMARCK, N.D. - North Dakota's first crop of industrial hemp is showing promise, with returns better than a lot of other commodities.

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Australia: Patients to get easier access to medicinal cannabis under Greens bill

For now, the Boring Hemp Co. is focusing on producing hemp seeds, which have been in short supply as the nascent industry finds its legs in the state.

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Five reasons to smoke Cannabis during the holidays

EATON, N.Y. — For the first time in 80 years, a farm in New York State is legally growing cannabis.

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