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10/05/2016 / By hempscience

This Colorado hemp firm is overhauling its operations to achieve ‘extraordinary growth’

Colorado hemp firm CBDRx LLC, now under new executive leadership, is selling its small hemp farm in Longmont and building out a new production facility as part of a broader restructuring of its operations. Article by Alicia Wallace “We’re launching what I call CBDRx 2.0,” said Tim Gordon, who was named CEO earlier this month […]

10/04/2016 / By hempscience

Industrial hemp gets its start in West Virginia

A handful of hemp farmers in West Virginia are seeding the future for the next generation, if and when industrial hemp becomes legal again. It’s the first time West Virginians have grown hemp since World War II. Article by Drew Tanner Hemp was declared illegal in 1937 because of its kinship with marijuana, which was declared […]

09/13/2016 / By hempscience

Trading on a future in industrial hemp

A pair of twentysomethings made their way to Chicago this year to start a trading platform for industrial hemp, a market they say traditional exchanges have overlooked. Article by Lynne Marek The two Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduates, Edward Woodford and Brian Liston, have raised $4.5 million for their company, Seed CX Ltd., including […]

08/30/2016 / By hempscience

Saskatchewan scientists discover key to drug-free hemp

Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan have identified the process that marijuana plants use to create tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) — the active ingredient in pot that gets smokers high —and say it could help breeders create pot plants that contain no traces of the drug and can be freely used in fibres or pharmaceuticals. Article by CBC News It turns […]

08/17/2016 / By hempscience

8 Products Made from Industrial Hemp

Hemp — the base material for the unattractive but amazingly sturdy jewelry one might see at a Phish concert — might be on the verge of an industrial breakthrough. (Article by Jim Craigmyle) Last week, a California Senate committee passed the Industrial Hemp Farming Act, which reclassifies hemp as separate from marijuana, thereby allowing farmers […]

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