Are Feds Trying To Run Down Clock On Kentucky Hemp Seeds?
KENTUCKY: With just about two weeks until the end of planting season, Kentucky’s Agriculture Department agreed Friday to jump through a federal agency’s hoops so it can get hemp seeds that already are...
View ArticleHemp Crop Takes Root In Kentucky
KENTUCKY: A month after the seeds for Kentucky’s first legal hemp crop were released to the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, hundreds of leafy plants are growing in research fields across Kentucky....
View ArticleKentucky’s Hemp Crops Flourish After Troubled Start
KENTUCKY: It took a legal fight just to get the seeds in the ground, but two months later, Kentucky’s first legal hemp crops in decades are flourishing. The hemp plants have grown from 6 to 16 feet in...
View ArticleUniversity Of Kentucky Researchers Harvest Hemp Crop
KENTUCKY: University of Kentucky researchers have harvested the university’s first hemp crop in decades. “It was a good growing season for many crops, not just hemp,” said David Williams, UK College...
View ArticleOhio Residents Join Legal Hemp Harvest In Kentucky, Touting Jobs Creation,...
OHIO: For the first time in two generations, the Industrial Hemp crop has been legally harvested in Kentucky. The hemp plots were grown in compliance with Kentucky state law and in accordance with...
View ArticleMarijuana A Savior, And A Stigma, For Revived Hemp Crop
KENTUCKY: Jim Barton is finally harvesting a crop of hemp, the cannabis variety used in colonial times to make rope, sailcloth and other goods. But the 80-year-old Kentucky farmer isn’t celebrating...
View ArticleKentucky Department of Agriculture Looking For Hemp Growers For 2015
KENTUCKY: The Kentucky Department of Agriculture is taking applications for next year’s industrial hemp pilot projects. Potential growers must apply by Jan. 1; farmers who are chosen will be notified...
View ArticleMitch McConnell’s Love Affair with Hemp
KENTUCKY: Last May, a shipment of 250 pounds of hemp seeds left Italy destined for Kentucky as part of a pilot project made legal by the 2014 federal farm bill. Kentucky farmers had long hoped for a...
View ArticleKentucky Industrial Hemp Production Starting Second Planting
KENTUCKY: From THC levels to plant shape and uses, industrial hemp is worlds apart from its cannabis cousin marijuana, Maysville Rotary Club members learned on Tuesday. Speaking at its meeting was Adam...
View ArticleMcConnell Inserts Hemp Provision Into Senate Farm Appropriations Bill
KENTUCKY: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has inserted into the Senate farm appropriations bill a provision aimed at making it easier to process legally grown industrial hemp. The measure...
View ArticleThe States That Don’t Want To Legalize Marijuana
Public Service Announcement: 7 states are the party poopers of America. Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Wisconsin, New Mexico and Idaho are the only states—of those where residents were...
View ArticleThe Daily 202: Kentucky Is Latest Battleground In The Marijuana Wars
KENTUCKY: Happy Monday morning from Richmond, Ky., where the governor’s race, just one week from tomorrow, is a true toss-up. I’m crisscrossing the state talking to voters and trailing the candidates....
View ArticleCV Sciences Sponsors Murray State University’s Hemp Field Day August 4, 2016
Open To Public, The Event Marks a Year of Exceptional Strides in Research and Gives Attendees the Rare Opportunity to View Hemp Research Plots First Hand KENTUCKY: Murray State University is just one...
View ArticleIndustrial Hemp Research Pilot Program Now Taking Applications For 2017
KENTUCKY: Kentuckians interested in participating in the industrial hemp research pilot program in 2017 are invited to submit an application with the Kentucky Department of Agriculture. “The pilot...
View ArticleHIA 24th Annual Conference Is Sept 9-11 In Lexington, KY
KENTUCKY: The Hemp Industries Association (HIA), a non-profit trade association consisting of hundreds of hemp businesses, will host its annual conference Saturday, September 9, 2017, through Monday,...
View ArticleTour Legal Hemp Farm In Kentucky Saturday, September 30, RSVP By September 29
KENTUCKY: Ananda Hemp is inviting the media to tour their 500-acre hemp farm and production facility on Saturday, September 30 from 12-3 at 2155 Grays Run in Cynthiana, KY. A Farm Bill passed by...
View ArticleSenator McConnell and Commissioner Quarles Announce Hemp Legislation
KENTUCKY: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture Ryan Quarles (R-KY) announced today the impending introduction of legislation in the United States...
View ArticleMarijuana Legalization Could Come To These 12 States This Year
By Eric Weisbrot Despite strong efforts to maintain the criminalization of marijuana use in the United States, many individuals and lawmakers have taken a step in the direction of legalization over the...
View ArticleMcConnell Signs Farm Bill Conference Report With Kentucky Hemp Pen
KENTUCKY: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced today that his language to legalize industrial hemp is officially included in the finalized Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018...
View ArticleMcConnell Signs Farm Bill Conference Report With Kentucky Hemp Pen
KENTUCKY: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced today that his language to legalize industrial hemp is officially included in the finalized Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018...
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