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CannLib is a curated private library of >8,200 documents on all aspects of Cannabis, Hemp, and Marijuana. It is available for searching for a fee, that’s a service called CannLib Search. It’s for anyone studying or researching cannabis/hemp/marijuana, cannabinoids, medicine, or cannabis science. Breeding, cultivating, processing, history, research, botany. All cannabinoids, marijuana, primary hemp products, … Continue reading "CannLib Search" ...

Thus, in a right and just world, Biden and Harris are THE perfect people to finally legalize federally (give it to the states). ...

Download here FDA's "Cannabis and Cannabis-Derived Compounds: Quality Considerations for Clinical Research; Draft Guidance for Industry." ...

What could one do to leverage the Novel Food decision on CBD by EFSA for the good of society? This issue has many natural allies: fiscal conservatives, social liberals, law and order right-wingers, black lives matter lefties, social equity, appropriate criminal justice, harm reduction, patients’ rights and access, affordable medicine, reducing burden on the state … Continue reading "How to Push Back on EFSA CBD Decision" ...

Why Nixon really wanted drug laws (hint: it was totally political and it was totally racist). ...

CBD in Europe has been handed a unique situation. We have the history (12.000 years of use, Europeans smoked hemp before tobacco), the science (35.353 studies on PubMed alone), economics (read: JOBS!), disintermediation of mafia (state or private), huge potential improvement in public health, and massive public support behind us. This opening gambit by E.U. … Continue reading "E.U. CBD: Crisis = Opportunity" ...

FDA’s single-molecule fetish for drugs is on a collision course with the CBD industry’s full- and broad-spectrum, multi-molecule ethos. This is the agency’s second open public comment period on CBD and Cannabis. FDA wants to hear from you regarding its recent report to Congress on CBD. Submit your comments by clicking on: Submit Comments Online … Continue reading "FDA: Comment on CBD by Sept. 20" ...

This appears to torpedo EIHA’s multi-million Euro project to obtain Novel Food (NF) status for some members, and highlights the need for a better approach than blind compliance with every whim of every bureaucrat in Brussels. Meanwhile, the UK considers minimally-processed (non-selective) CBD extracts to not be a NF: CBD extracts can be derived from … Continue reading "E.U. Stalls Novel Food Applications" ...

In 2000, hemp food was still in its infancy. It later became 90% of Canadian hemp thanks in part to conferences like this. Extracts of Vancouver Hemp 2000 conference report on Hemp Food : Don Wirtshafter of the Ohio Hempery spoke on market development and selling hemp food products in the United States. … Continue reading "Vancouver Hemp 2000 Report" ...

How bad are things at HIA? So bad, they are turning to Koch Industries to bail them out. They are hiring the Development Director at Marijuana Policy Project to be Executive Director. From a reporter: “Soros doesn’t bankroll Marijuana Policy Project. I’ve dug through 15 years of finances. First it was the late Peter Lewis, … Continue reading "HIA Turns to Koch" ...

Here’s a recent picture of a fly found in an eight of adult-use marijuana bought from a state-regulated dispensary in Los Angeles. Many are under the mistaken impression state-regulated retailers are automatically better than legacy market retailers. State marijuana “legalization” is little more than an old school shakedown racket. Pay the Governor’s Goons lots of … Continue reading "R U Paying 40% Tax 4 Flies 2?" ...

Of all the states, Hawaii has the most difficulty with hemp and the laws of botany, being at 20° latitude north. Cannabis at that latitude increases THC and doesn’t flower when you want it to, compared to the north. If a state wanted to protect downwind medical grows, they would mandate growing hemp female-only. Hawaii … Continue reading "Hawaii Passes Bad Hemp Law. Again." ...

On this episode of the NutraCast we were joined by Richard Rose, who has worked with hemp for decades and is a self-described ‘Hemp OG.” He created the first “open-source” hemp brands Nobacco and Not-Pot. He has also created CannaSearch, which has opened consumer access to research of Cannabis for dozens of medical conditions. Additionally, … Continue reading "NutraCast Podcast: Hemp pioneer Richard Rose on CBD, FDA" ...

Teen marijuana use is dropping significantly because of legalization. In “Adolescent Treatment Admissions for Marijuana Following Recreational Legalization in Colorado and Washington” is: “Results: Over all states in the analysis, the rate of adolescent treatment admissions for marijuana use declined significantly over the study period, with the mean rate falling nearly in half. The decline … Continue reading "How to Get Teens to Not Smoke Pot? Legalize." ...

FDA recently tested Hemp products, and found 82% disclosed CBD within tolerances or higher. They showed good results: little adulteration, and only 1 had a heavy metal, lead. They even tested products silent on or claiming no CBD. Oddly, FDA over-stated THC by 13% (“THCa + THC”), and referred to the LOQ but never revealed … Continue reading "FDA: 82% of CBD Products Contain What They Say, Or More" ...

6-15% CBD foods legalized in Virginia ...

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We let CBD usurp what should have been about FDA’s 50-year lie called Schedule 1 for marijuana. That has to end now, especially in a post-Covid world. Now is the time for a full-court press to deschedule marijuana. We can have an impact as the comment period is open for an indefinite time. ...

A new Chinese study conducted in hospitals in Wuhan found that elevated levels of C-reactive protein, a standard marker of inflammation that has been linked to poor diet, “correlated with disease severity and tended to be a good predictor of adverse outcomes.”” A longitudinal study found cannabis use in early adulthood lead to low CRP … Continue reading "Cannabinoids FTW Against COVID-19" ...

CBD is effective at reducing airway inflammation and fibrosis, common symptoms of the Covid-19 virus. ...

Why do they want to regulate the world's safest medicine like HazMat, for the benefit of only a few? ...

Few know my history helping turn the Hemp Industries Association (HIA) into a credible trade group. I hold it accountable today because I feel a responsibility to keep it on the straight and narrow, like I did years ago. My work driving the interest in food was the first for it, skeptical from the start … Continue reading "Richard Rose’s Years at Hemp Industries Association (HIA)" ...

Like every other “legal marijuana” state, California never actually descheduled Cannabis in the state: In California Code, Health and Safety Code – HSC § 11054 is:“(a) The controlled substances listed in this section are included in Schedule I.(d)(13): Cannabis (d)(20) Tetrahydrocannabinols. Synthetic equivalents of the substances contained in the plant, or in the resinous … Continue reading "Pot, Hemp Still Schedule 1 in California" ...

Can we legalize now? 33,535 studies just in federal government-run PubMed. First was in 1840, 66 years before FDA started: “On the Preparations of the Indian Hemp, or Gunjah (Cannabis Indica), Their Effects on the Animal System in Health, and Their Utility in the Treatment of Tetanus and Other Convulsive Diseases.” Br Foreign Med Rev. … Continue reading "U.S. Gov’t Has 33,535 Studies on Marijuana Going Back 180 Years" ...

The first police agency which needs to have resources re-allocated is DEA. Re-deploy to USDA a portion of DEA’s $1.6 billion domestic enforcement budget, say 1/3. It’s only right, as for years DEA‘s marijuana eradication program was composed 98% of feral hemp (ditchweed). And with 47 states recognizing Cannabis is medicinal, DEA’s Cannabis focus should … Continue reading "Defund DEA" ...

2000: Tofu Tsar. Northern California Bohemian, Nov 22, by Paula Harris. OUR OWN LOCAL tofu tsar, Richard Rose, is a guy we can thank for popularizing tofu, somehow making the bland pallid gunk suitable (hey, even desirable) for the American palate. He’s also founder and president of the Rella Good Cheese Co. and HempNut Inc. … Continue reading "2000: Tofu Tsar" ...

One requirement for a substance to be listed as Schedule 1 is “no medical value.” Every chance I get I point out that Schedule 1 for marijuana is unconstitutional 47 times over. Why 47? That’s how many states have found medical value in it, and the federal can not over-ride or undo that. Each state … Continue reading "Exception to Descheduling; DEA Still Offending Constitution" ...

After a Generation of "Manufacturing Dissent," is HIA's War on U.S. Hemp Finally Ending in Insolvency? ...

Many counties in California are banning marijuana grows up-wind from wineries, over fear of “Terpene Taint,” the smell of the aromatic compounds in the plant contaminating their wines. Yes, it’s a stretch of logic and science, but  the mono-culture grape industry owned mostly by foreign corporations rules those counties. However, it appears that the first … Continue reading "Hemp Terpenes for Improved Terroir" ...

Why won’t the Feds legalize? The US could save $500,000,000 annually just in prescription drug costs if medical marijuana was legal, and that’s just the Medicare Part D costs. Extrapolated to all US prescription costs not just Part D (disabled and retired), the annual savings is almost $4 billion, 1.1% of prescription drug expenditures. With … Continue reading "$4 B, 1.1% Savings in Rx Drug Costs from Legal Marijuana" ...