Over thousands of years, hemp has a purported 50,000+ beneficial uses. Hemp fibers have been found in ancient burial sites, the Founding Fathers grew hemp, and the plant was utilized to pay colonial ...

Hemp farmers, activists, manufacturers, and retailers are coming together beginning today for Hemp History Week, an opportunity to celebrate the past and future of the crop poised to return to ...

In 2018, the federal government made commercial hemp legal. That set off a frenzy across the country and Tennessee was at the forefront. Almost everyone wanted to grow hemp for CBD. The promised ...

A federal ban on most hemp-derived THC products is expected to go into effect in November. It could eliminate the most ...

This is the first part of a five-part series concerning the modern-day industrial hemp industry. For many years, we’ve seen much confusion, much discussion, and certainly much controversy surrounding ...

Did you know that early drafts of the Declaration of Independence were written on hemp? Or that in the 1700’s all British colonies were required to grow hemp? Hemp originated in central Asia and was ...

The discovery in 1964 of 500 acres of cannabis growing wild along the banks of the Hunter River inspired a new generation of pot smokers in Australia. But the history of the crop is much older, dating ...

MERCER COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18) — July is National Hemp Month and many Kentucky growers are taking advantage of the versatile plant. Throughout the 1800s, shakers at Pleasant Hill used hemp for many ...

LAKE LILLIAN — It was 1943 when a hemp processing plant was built on a flat piece of farmland with a view of the blue waters of Lake Lillian, in southern Kandiyohi County. As part of the war effort, ...