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RECENT NEWS
2018 Farm Bill
Hemp Legalization about to pass! The language that pertains to hemp is scattered through out the document. We will update this page with a summary of how it pertains to our industry. In the meantime a search of 'hemp' will take you to the relevant sections....
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How to Choose a CBD Payment Processor
How to Choose a CBD Payment Processor Selling Cannabidiol (also known as CBD/CBD oil/Hemp oil) can be a profitable business venture. It can also be a massive financial disaster if you don’t work with the right payment processor.CBD ecommerce is considered...
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"Now that Congress has OK’d the sale of hemp — legally separating the fibrous plant from its more laidback cannabis cousin — Texas farmers are prodding state lawmakers to join the 41 other states allowing cultivation of a crop that’s now more lucrative than corn or cotton.
The 2018 farm bill, a five-year, $867 million agriculture and nutrition-program spending plan that passed the U.S. House in a landslide last week, allows farmers across the nation to legally grow and sell hemp.
“If we have the availability, and everything is in order, I would probably plant (hemp) this coming summer,” said West Texas rancher Jeff Williams, who sits on the board of directors of the U.S. Hemp Roundtable and chairs the newly-formed U.S Hemp Farmers Alliance. “Quite frankly, in Texas, we’re behind the eight ball as we speak, because so any other states have legalized it.”
www.expressnews.com/business/article/Pressure-builds-for-Texas-to-move-on-hemp-13467188.php
Pressure builds for Texas to move on hemp
expressnews.com
2018 farm bill paves the way for nationwide hemp boom"In 1985, legendary cannabis activist Jack Herer published a magnum opus called The Emperor Wears No Clothes, which through painstaking research told the hidden history of hemp—a once-revered crop cultivated for more than 10,000 years that played a vital role in America’s economy from colonial times until the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 made growing it a federal crime.
Herer’s underground bestseller argued that ending hemp’s misguided prohibition, and allowing a commercial crop to flourish once again, would yield incredible benefits, including but not limited to feeding the world, freeing us from fossil fuels, reversing climate change, replacing plastics, ending the housing crisis, and restoring our planet’s depleted soils.
“I don’t know if hemp is going to save the world,” Herer once famously opined, “but it’s the only thing that can.”
The man who came to be known as The Hemperor passed away in 2010, but his legacy lives on in an unlikely place—an amendment to the 2018 Farm Bill, added by US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, that removes industrial hemp from regulation under the Controlled Substances Act, making it a legal agricultural commodity for the first time in more than eighty years.
That bill was passed by the Senate on Tuesday, and found approval in the House on Wednesday, Dec. 12. President Trump is expected to sign it into law later this week.
Jack Herer’s dream has finally come true. Hemp is legal, nationwide."
www.leafly.com/news/politics/hemp-legalization-in-the-farm-bill-of-2018-history-politics
Hemp Is Finally Legal. Let's See if It Can Save the World | Leafly
leafly.com
Jack Herer's dream has come true. Hemp is legal. Now we can finally test its capabilities.
Declassification for decriminalization not legalization for monopoli-zation
Thanks Jack with helping me in my research in the 1990s. Still have his phone number in my "Marijuana in Magic & Religion," which he helped the authors published.
Miss you Jack Herer! Thank you for all you did! You'd be proud to know HEMP is finally going legal 😘💖✨🌱🌎🌞🌠🌈💦
He hasn't signed yet. Wake me when he does, then I'll celebrate.
Now I never let a male plant grow long enough to see a flower but is that what it looks like?
Right on, Dude!!!😎 RIP
Met jack decades ago and got my copy of his book signed. He was really cool to talk to.
"Amid the champagne corks popping and footballs spiking as hemp becomes legalized thanks to the 2018 Farm Bill that sailed through the U.S. Congress this week, questions remain over whether the FDA will maintain its conservative interpretation of statutes and somehow reel in the booming CBD market."
www.naturalproductsinsider.com/ingredients/can-fda-really-shut-down-frothy-cbd-market
Can the FDA really shut down the frothy CBD market?
naturalproductsinsider.com
Not so fast. The Food and Drug Administration is still, in theory, the regulatory boss of CBD. Will they assert that authority?
government ruins everything they touch
If they fuck with the current open CBD market then they best be ready to feel the pressure and the power of the people. We just stop paying your outlandish taxes and watch you slither away!
Sweet, Ill make more selling CBD on the black market...it will be like the 80s with cocaine.
#FDAUSELESS so it would be RIGHTNUP THEIR ALLEY to fuck with CBD.
Cindy Bish
It is very hard to stuff a genie back in a bottle.
Deregulate Cannabis as President Trump want's.
www.newsobserver.com/news/article223053805.html
With OK from Congress, US hemp market set to boom
newsobserver.com
With federal legalization of hemp at hand, the US market is set to boom amid the popularity of CBDs, a non-psychoactive compound found in hemp as a health supplement.
Towana Yepa
We need a quota system to keep prices above the cost of production- cupknoxville.wordpress.com/2018/08/17/hemp-overproduction-in-agriculture-and-how-to-control-it/
It will still be over regulated, taxed, and controlled. Wait for it..........
Why does the law have information relating to the war in Yemen right now?
Farmable land in bend
It's a bad bill
Imagine what could be done now with a source for certified seeds which would allow crop insurance.
Jobs Jobs Jobs
It’s about time!
Yay!!!
Yes!!! Bring it. We need good industry in this country ❤️❤️
Yes!!!
Finally
Arleen Erminia
There is still work to do but good things are happening. We are entering a very exciting time. Yet we know our work is not over.
www.menshealth.com/health/a25559940/farm-bill-legal-hemp-cbd/
Why Legal Hemp Is a Big Step Forward for CBD
menshealth.com
Why legal hemp is actually a really big deal.
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WE SUPPORT
Hemp Education
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. ~Nelson Mandela
Much work still needs to be done with the general public, farmers and our elected officials about the nutritional, industrial, environmental and medicinal benefits of hemp. As laws change, research is conducted and commercialization begins, sharing information will be vital to ensure the hemp industry thrives. NHA is committed to advancing this awareness and knowledge.
Hemp Legislation
NHA’s main priority is the passage of comprehensive hemp legislation on a federal level. We also are here to help individual states with their hemp legislation. Stay tuned for important updates of how you can help pass HR3550, The 2017 Industrial Hemp Act!
Hemp Business
Hemp has the potential to bring prosperity to many segments of our society. Not only will it be a new cash and rotational crop for farmers, the possibilities for manufacturing are virtuously endless. Not only can hemp make thousands of products, hemp can be used to makes thousands of products, better, stronger and more sustainable. Now is the time to start think about how hemp can be incorporated into your business plan. If you have an existing hemp business, an NHA business level membership is a great way to not only support our efforts but to promote your business tp thousands of hemp enthusiasts!
HEMP IS NOT MARIJUANA
One of the biggest misconceptions is believing that industrial hemp is the same thing as marijuana.
The two plants are the same species, but are more like first cousins and NOT identical twins.
“Hemp Can Save The Planet!”
– Jack Herer
Hemp is the most versatile plant on earth.
It can be used for food, medicine, biofuel, compostable plastics, building materials and more.
It is time for the full legalization of industrial hemp at the federal level.
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