BISMARCK, ND — The first in the nation to do so, North Dakota’s Agriculture Commissioner Roger Johnson will hold a public hearing on Thursday, June 15 about rulesexpected to be finalized later this year that would license farmers in his state...
BISMARCK, ND — In a trailblazing move, North Dakota’s Agriculture Commissioner Roger Johnson formally proposed rules yesterday to license farmers in his state to grow industrial hemp under existing state law. With the backdrop of farmers across Canada planting over 50,000...
WASHINGTON, DC — Vote Hemp, a non-profit organization dedicated to the acceptance of industrial hemp, is excited by recent advances made in four state legislaturesconsidering hemp legislation this year that would allow farmers and researchers to grow industrial hemp. In California,...
WASHINGTON, DC — Agriculture commissioners from four states met with Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officials last week to explore acceptable rules on industrial hemp farming. The official meeting marked a turning point in the federal government’s relations with hemp-friendly policymakers...
BISMARCK, ND — North Dakota and three other states made their case Friday with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to allow the cultivation of industrial hemp. “The DEA people were very cordial, but they told us that the process...
SACRAMENTO, CA — California business leaders and farmers are celebrating today’s passage of AB 1147, which clarifies that the cultivation of industrial hemp is legal on the condition it contains no more than three tenths of one percent (0.3%) tetrahydro-cannabinol...
ST. LOUIS, MO — On Monday, Dec. 12 lawyers Bruce Ellison and David Frankel, representing Alex White Plume and his family of the Lakota Nation who live on the Pine Ridge Reservation, made oral arguments in the Eighth Circuit U.S....
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — As scores of leading American companies that make and sell a wide variety of consumer and manufacturing components made from hemp seed, oil and fiber meet in San Francisco on November 3-4, new market research shows...
SAN FRANCISCO, CA — Members of the Hemp Industries Association (HIA) from across North America will hold their annual meeting at the Ramada Plaza Hotel located at Market & 8th St. in San Francisco, November 3-4. During the conference experts...
WASHINGTON, DC — New market research obtained by Vote Hemp confirms that in the year since the Hemp Industries Association (HIA) successfully beat the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) attempt to ban nutritious hemp foods, sales of hemp foods have increased...