Media Highlights
The Future of Hemp-Derived Cannabinoids and Isomers
April 18, 2024Originally posted on Analytical Cannabis.In 2018, US lawmakers passed the Agriculture Improvement Act, more commonly known as the Farm Bill. Included in this bill was a provision that legalized the production of industrial hemp as well as “any part of that plant,...
Why Classifying Cannabis Products Is a Debacle Right Now
April 18, 2024Originally posted on Cannabis Equipment News.While the federal government continues to spin its wheels on cannabis legalization, the industry remains fragmented, with individual states doing what they can to create consistent and safe medical and recreational marketplaces.Despite the uncertainty in...
Adopting Automated Cannabis and Hemp Extraction Solutions
April 17, 2024Originally posted on Analytical Cannabis.Thanks to the implementation of automatic packaging and labeling machines and automatic sensors in controlled environment agriculture greenhouses, automation has already helped the cannabis sector to reach peak new levels of efficiency.Until very recently, however, the cannabis extraction...
Is Canada (finally) going to allow CBD to be sold in mainstream retail?
April 17, 2024Originally posted on MJBizDaily.A watershed CBD recommendation expected this summer from Canadian health authorities could resolve one of the oddest differences between the cannabis industries in Canada and the U.S. – their starkly different approaches to hemp extracts.In the United...
FDA takes another look at CBD, but insiders are skeptical much will change
April 17, 2024Originally posted on MJBizDaily.U.S. health regulators are taking their closest look in more than three years at the idea of incorporating cannabinoids into dietary supplements.But hopes are dim that Tuesday’s daylong review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Science Board will...
Building a hemp extraction company for now and the future
April 17, 2024Originally posted on Business of Cannabis.On this BofC Live segment we connect with Deepank Utkhede, one of the Founders of Vantage Hemp Co. based in Greeley, Colorado. We wanted to connect with Utkhede to talk about Vantage’s approach to hemp...
This is how cannabis gets turned into CBD
April 17, 2024Originally posted on WIRED.CANNABIDIOL, OR CBD, as it’s better known, was once only a concern of the most tiresome of stoners. Now you can find it in tampons, face creams, ice creams, hummus, water, and at Tesco. It’s a multibillion-dollar industry:...
Medcan inks ‘multimillion-dollar deal’ with Vantage Hemp Co.
April 17, 2024Originally posted on Cannabiz.Medcan has secured an exclusive agreement with US firm Vantage Hemp Co. to import its pharmaceutical-grade cannabidiol (CBD) into Australia.The firm said the “multimillion-dollar deal” makes it the only Australian supplier of Vantage CBD to local pharmaceutical...
Meet Harvinder Johal | Chief Revenue Officer
April 17, 2024Originally posted on Shoutout Colorado.We had the good fortune of connecting with Harvinder Johal and we’ve shared our conversation below.Hi Harvinder, we’d love for you to start things off by telling us something about your industry that we and others...