BY GARY MICHAEL SMITH, ESQ. Hemp is returning to America’s farms after decades of prohibition, and CBD (THC’s less fun non-psychoactive cousin) is all the rage. These new hemp and CBD industries seek clarity out of the schizophrenic alphabet soup of federal agencies and regulations. Small wonder there is confusion, because through the end of …
BY DR. LLOYD COVENS, publisher of West420 News Weekly As millions and millions of dollars in merger-and-acquisition deals continue, the serious US-based makers of CBD products are poised to flood the market, building brands, and beginning to produce new innovative delivery and formulation strategies. Over 1000 CBD firms may be active with such a low …
BY DR. LLOYD COVENS Banking Reform Gets Historic Win Tue., March 25 was a red-letter day for cannabis reform in Congress. For the first time ever, a cannabis reform bill passed out of committee in the House Financial Services Committee. A solution for the dreaded IRS 280E cannabis problem may be gaining ground at last. …
BY ACM STAFF Friday morning March 29, on the last possible day it could be heard in committee, Sen. David Gowan’s SB1494 decidedly passed out of the House Health and Human Services Committee, 8-0. A string of expert witnesses provided testimony on the importance of creating state-mandated testing for medical marijuana products sold in the …
BY MIKEL WEISSER The March meeting of AZDA’s Industrial Hemp Program public hearings most definitely came in like a lion. This month’s three-hour extravaganza featured bad news, great news, and even had a celebrity speaker, Dept of Agriculture Director, Mark Killian. The spacious ADOT auditorium where the group met last month was unavailable, so the …
