The Richard Rose Report

Welcome, I’m Richard Rose.

I focus mainly on Hemp (low-THC and industrial varieties of Cannabis) issues. It is free, all I ask for is your email address for the newsletter. Despite over a thousand posts on Hemp and CBD since 2014, Facebook and Instagram are too nebulous for those of us who write on controversial matters. They can shut down one’s account in an instant over nothing, and I don’t preach Conventional Wisdom.

For 27 years I’ve been a hemp foods pioneer, researcher, author, educator, advocate, speaker, consultant, product developer, brander, marketer, thought leader, Mentor, and entrepreneur.

After pivoting from a successful 14-year soyfoods marketing career, in 1994 I started a movement by being the first to market sophisticated branded perishable foods made from hempseed to the masses, not only proving the viability of a new industry but changing society’s stigmas too. That revolution in food became hemp’s first billion dollar industry, and today is 90% of Canadian hemp. Until CBD it was the leading value-driver for hemp, globally.

For over four decades I’ve been a leading innovator in the natural food industry with such soyfoods as TofuRella, Cottage Tofu Salad, and LeTofu sold around the world. Receiving the first 3 hemp industry awards for food innovation, I was the first food professional in hemp foods in North America, and paved the way for those I inspired to follow.

Since 1980 I invented, produced, and marketed dozens of products based on tofu, and was the only small or natural food company to be named the “Leading Innovators of 1986” by Food and Beverage Marketing magazine. In 1986 TofuRella was introduced, sales of which landed my firm on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies in 1993.

Although I’m a Hemp OG, I’ve actually done more the last 7 years than the first. With the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill, I’m making my almost 50 years of business experience and insight available to you, for free.

Click here to read more on why you should listen to me when it comes to hemp, marijuana, marketing, branding, and business.

My personal brand for two decades has been The Hemp Nut, because, yes, I’m nutty for hemp; after all I named the product category, brand, and company HempNut, and sunk $2.5 million into it. Being nutty about hemp in an insane world is a feature, not a bug. Especially if it’s for over a quarter century of progressive and positive contribution.

Expect to read a unique voice and unusual ideas about strategizing, breeding, growing, processing, branding, and marketing various Hemp products. I’m not selling anything so I give notoriously straight no-BS advice, without sugar-coating. I’ll tell you what you need to hear, not what you want to hear. Expect cognitive dissonance. Again, it’s a feature not a bug.

Richard Rose

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The following is just a small taste of CannaSearch Daily for the last few days. Check back as it changes daily, hundreds of posts weekly.

• Germany: Hemp Meat Alternatives
  “The project was called TASTINO, the name was put together from parts of the detailed project title: “SchniTzel, hemp tofu, PASTa & Co from the real hemp laboratory – protein-based foods from regional hemp cultivation”. Project partners are the Institute for Crop Science at the University of Hohenheim, which is responsible for the accompanying research, … Continue reading “Germany: Hemp Meat Alternatives”
• Oregon’s ‘Operation Table Rock’ busts hemp operators growing marijuana
  Oregon’s ‘Operation Table Rock’ busts hemp operators growing marijuana Oregon regulators say more than 110 licensed hemp operations were found to be illegally growing high-THC marijuana after a recent crackdown in Jackson and Josephine… Read More #CBD #Hemp Oregon’s ‘Operation Table Rock’ busts hemp operators growing marijuana September 28, 2021 9:44 am Click to SAVE … Continue reading “Oregon’s ‘Operation Table Rock’ busts hemp operators growing marijuana”
• Hemp Oil Entry Deleted from the EU Feed Materials Catalog
  Hemp Oil Entry Deleted from the EU Feed Materials Catalog Hemp oil entry is deleted from the European catalog of feed materials, while hemp seed oil and hemp silage definitions are included. The Catalogue now also includes an entry for hemp products derived from any part of the plant except the flowering tops. The European … Continue reading “Hemp Oil Entry Deleted from the EU Feed Materials Catalog”
• Hemp Oil Entry Deleted from the EU Feed Materials Catalog
  Hemp Oil Entry Deleted from the EU Feed Materials Catalog Hemp oil entry is deleted from the European catalog of feed materials, while hemp seed oil and hemp silage definitions are included. The Catalogue now also includes an entry for hemp products derived from any part of the plant except the flowering tops. The European … Continue reading “Hemp Oil Entry Deleted from the EU Feed Materials Catalog”
• PubMed: Survey of Patients Employing Cannabigerol-Predominant Cannabis Preparations: Perceived Medical Effects, Adverse Events, and Withdrawal Symptoms
  PubMed: Survey of Patients Employing Cannabigerol-Predominant Cannabis Preparations: Perceived Medical Effects, Adverse Events, and Withdrawal Symptoms Cannabis Cannabinoid Res. 2021 Sep 27. doi: 10.1089/can.2021.0058. Online ahead of print. ABSTRACT Introduction: Cannabigerol (CBG), and its precursor before decarboxylation, cannabigerolic acid is sometimes labeled the “mother of all cannabinoids.” The purpose of the present study was to … Continue reading “PubMed: Survey of Patients Employing Cannabigerol-Predominant Cannabis Preparations: Perceived Medical Effects, Adverse Events, and Withdrawal Symptoms”
• PubMed: A Systematic Review of Fibromyalgia and Recent Advancements in Treatment: Is Medicinal Cannabis a New Hope?
  PubMed: A Systematic Review of Fibromyalgia and Recent Advancements in Treatment: Is Medicinal Cannabis a New Hope? Cureus. 2021 Aug 20;13(8):e17332. doi: 10.7759/cureus.17332. eCollection 2021 Aug. ABSTRACT Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is a pain disorder characterized by chronic widespread pain, fatigue, and sleep disturbance, in the absence of any well-defined underlying organic disease. The exact pathophysiology … Continue reading “PubMed: A Systematic Review of Fibromyalgia and Recent Advancements in Treatment: Is Medicinal Cannabis a New Hope?”
• USA Set Hemp Food THC Standard at 3,000 ppm
  Canada’s 10 ppm should not be EIHA’s goal, rather USA’s 3,000 should be. If the drug-test-crazy, THC-phobic USA can function without problem despite THC levels in foods 300 times higher, then that should be the limit. Read more at:https://businesscann.com/europes-proposed-new-safe-levels-of-thc-in-hemp-cbd-products-are-unacceptable-and-unnecessarily-low/ Click to SAVE as a PDF …… Click to PRINT
• Marijuana policy reading
  Marijuana policy reading Drafting a pamphlet: “What North Carolinians Need To Know About Marijuana Money.” Here’s what I’m thinking for background reading references:   For marijuana issues generally, I don’t know a better place to start than Mark Kleiman’s Marijuana Legalization:  What Everyone Needs to Know (2d ed. 2016, with Caulkins and Kilmer, under $20), which inspired the … Continue reading “Marijuana policy reading”
• PubMed: The Current and Potential Application of Medicinal Cannabis Products in Dentistry
  PubMed: The Current and Potential Application of Medicinal Cannabis Products in Dentistry Dent J (Basel). 2021 Sep 10;9(9):106. doi: 10.3390/dj9090106. ABSTRACT Oral and dental diseases are a major global burden, the most common non-communicable diseases (NCDs), and may even affect an individual’s general quality of life and health. The most prevalent dental and oral health … Continue reading “PubMed: The Current and Potential Application of Medicinal Cannabis Products in Dentistry”
• Hemp Cake As An Alternative Ingredient For Sustainable Meat?
  Hemp Cake As An Alternative Ingredient For Sustainable Meat? The hemp plant is one of the most versatile plants on earth, with humans having made use of the hemp plant for centuries for many purposes. As hemp advocates will be quick to point out, the hemp plant has the ability to clothe, feed, and in … Continue reading “Hemp Cake As An Alternative Ingredient For Sustainable Meat?”
• PubMed: Synthesis, characterization and stress-testing of a robust quillaja saponin stabilized oil-in-water phytocannabinoid nanoemulsion
  PubMed: Synthesis, characterization and stress-testing of a robust quillaja saponin stabilized oil-in-water phytocannabinoid nanoemulsion J Cannabis Res. 2021 Sep 23;3(1):43. doi: 10.1186/s42238-021-00094-w. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: This study describes the design, optimization, and stress-testing of a novel phytocannabinoid nanoemulsion generated using high-pressure homogenization. [Formula: see text], a plant-derived commercial emulsifier containing quillaja saponin, was used to stabilize … Continue reading “PubMed: Synthesis, characterization and stress-testing of a robust quillaja saponin stabilized oil-in-water phytocannabinoid nanoemulsion”
• Animal feed association says hemp needs more research
  Animal feed association says hemp needs more research The Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) has warned against bringing hemp feed and pet food to market through a state-by-state patchwork of laws… Read More #CBD #Hemp Animal feed association says hemp needs more research September 24, 2021 6:33 am Click to SAVE as a … Continue reading “Animal feed association says hemp needs more research”