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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"...

Office Of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment Proposition 65 Evidence On The Developmental Toxicity Of Cannabis (Marijuana) Smoke and Δ9-THC October 2019, 441 pages Click here to download free:https://oehha.ca.gov/media/downloads/proposition-65/chemicals/cannabisdarthid100419.pdf...

☑️ -10% anxiolytic and sedative prescriptions ☑️ -5% anti-psychotic prescriptions ☑️ -1.5% anti-epileptic, anti-depressive, opioid and anti-migraine prescriptions Study: Do-It-Yourself medicine? The impact of light cannabis liberalization on prescription drugs “Abstract This paper provides the first analysis of “Do-it-Yourself Medicine” concerning marijuana consumption by studying the effects of the unintended liberalization of light cannabis [CBD … Continue reading "CBD Smokable Hemp Impact: 10% Fewer Drugs Prescribed"...

If you produce food, Cannabinoid products, or smokable hemp, this should be your bare-minimum quality assurance program: FSMA Human Food Audit ChecklistIowa State University Extension and Outreach Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into law on January 4, 2011. FSMA is the largest change in food … Continue reading "FSMA HACCP Plan for Free Download"...

PODCAST (15 min.) The Richard Rose Report: Episode 3: June 9, 2020 – This week Richard takes us through the latitudinal zones and the potential for industrial hemp in traditional “not hemp” zones. Click for more: https://hemptoday.net/ht-podcast-the-potential-for-developing-hemp-in-not-hemp-zones/amp/...

Two popular Cannabinoids: CBS: Cannabullshitiol. CBSa: Cannabullshitiolic acid. Chemical structure: 3$-9€-OOH. I had Proof of Life but it died. (Yes, this post is humor, or if you’re British, humour.) #Cannabis #Cannabinoid...

I’ve been arguing for 1% max THC for hemp for 5 years. CDA SecAg Duane Sinning even called me for doing so (“‘Free the Farmer 2016’ is counterproductive as it is factually inaccurate and does not reflect reality. A few people are pushing it because they have a personal agenda, but it … Continue reading "The One-Percent Solution"...

Four anti-dietary supplement organizations with zero expertise in Cannabis or Hemp sent an 11-page letter to FDA demanding action on safe, nontoxicating, not-Scheduled CBD from legal hemp. It amounts to “Prohibition v2.0,” a desire to criminalize CBD except for Big Pharma, and for FDA to do something anything so the big boys can monopolize CBD. … Continue reading "Pearl-Clutchers Demand FDA Do Something, Anything, About CBD"...

World's. Worst. Laws. The Hemp Industries Association (HIA) is behind some of the worst hemp laws in the country, designed to block hemp while appearing to legalize it, in California and Hawaii...

Vegan and Soyfoods FirstsVegan restaurant in California (1980)Vegan egg-nog (1981)Tofu merchandised in a box (1985)Tofu frozen dessert powdered mixes (1985)Tofu ice cream exported to Japan (1986)Food & Beverage Marketing “Leading Innovator of 1986” (1986)Organic vegan cream cheese (1994)Introduced 80+ vegan and soyfoods (1980-1994): Brightsong Tofu, Marinated Tofu, Vege-Herb Tofu, Soymilk, Tofu Creamie, Tofu Salad Dressing, … Continue reading "1980-2020: Richard Rose Industry Firsts"...

DEA’s THC Clarification Causes Confusion. Natural Foods Merchandiser, March 2002, p. 18, 20, by Mitchell Clute. On Oct. 9, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration issued a clarification of the Controlled Substances Act of 1972 stating that hemp foods containing any detectable levels of THC, the psychoactive chemical found in marijuana, will henceforth be considered illegal … Continue reading "2002: DEA’s THC Clarification Causes Confusion"...

DEA Threatens Hemp Industry. Vitamin Retailer, December 2001, by Lisa Schofield. The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has issued new interim rules stating that any hemp product that “causes THC to enter the human body” may not be manufactured, sold or consumed in the United States. These rules, which were published in the October 9 issue … Continue reading "2001: DEA Threatens Hemp Industry"...

Hemp As Food. SHARE Guide, Nov/Dec 1995, by Richard Rose. Care, Handling, and Preparation of Hemp Seeds It is taught that Buddha ate one hemp seed a day for three years in his ascetic period. If hemp seed was good enough for Buddha, it should be good enough for us. But how, and in what … Continue reading "1995: Hemp As Food"...

In the early days of hemp foods we had unique issues, from calming consumer fears about THC and drug tests to social legitimization of the emerging segment. Hempsters back then were into fiber, long before CBD, and skeptical that hemp could ever be a commercial food ingredient. So I started the HFA to help other … Continue reading "1998: Hemp Association Guides Budding Industry"...

Hemp Study Off Mark. Natural Foods Merchandiser, March 2000, by Scott Yates. USDA claim of thin market misses point, opponents say. A recent study showing that the future for the hemp trade is “small and thin” misses the point that the modern market is in its infancy and could grow fast because the product is … Continue reading "2000: Hemp Study Off Mark; Natural Foods Merchandiser"...

Shaking its seedy past. Santa Rosa Press Democrat, Jan 29 1996, by Ted Appel. Subhead: Industrial-grade hemp generating business surge It’s no pipe dream: Hemp, the clean-and sober cousin of marijuana, is becoming big business. Again.  Used for centuries to make ropes and paper, hemp is starting to shake its seedy reputation in the United … Continue reading "1996: Shaking its Seedy Past"...

Hemp, Hemp, Hooray. Rolling Stone, April 1995, by Chuck Dean. In grassroots America, the buzz is that products made from hemp, marijuana’s funky fun cousin, are dope — er, we mean hip. “There’s more of a market than can be satisfied right now,” says Mari Kane, editor of Hemp World magazine. Made using imported hemp … Continue reading "1995: Hemp, Hemp, Hooray; Rolling Stone"...

Rose Sees Red, Hemp food is legal, no matter what activists said.. High Times (2001), story and photo by Dan Skye. Although there have been concerns expressed by hempseed companies and consumers about the DEA’s enforcement of the ban on THC in edible hemp products, some businesspeople are shocked at the uproar. “Hemp foods are … Continue reading "2001: Rose Sees Red, Hemp Food is Legal, No Matter What Activists Said"...

In the ’90s Switzerland allowed the open sale of “sachets” of locally-grown outdoor marijuana, and the sky didn’t fall, stoned zombies didn’t roam the streets, and no one become a junkie overnight. They had a definition of hemp defined by end-use, not % THC. Since they were sachets for fragrance in your armoire, they were … Continue reading "1999: Switzerland Allows Sale of Marijuana Labeled As Hemp"...

Can we all agree that every self-regulating scheme in the industry is just a fraud waiting to happen? They are marketing shams, scams, and worse: they endanger patients and consumers. Click here to read this report on one such scheme from the Texas Cannabis Industry Association: https://web.archive.org/web/20201205002645/https://www.texascannabisindustry.org/tciareport...

A HempNut Store and Café franchise prototype was just one of the many casualties of the unfortunate suit by the fiber- and retail-based Hemp Industries Association (HIA) suing DEA for legalizing 96% of the hemp industry (no max THC). That killed the hemp food market for years, and almost took Canadian hemp with it. Flush … Continue reading "2001: From Cheese to Seeds"...