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By Dr Maggie Davidson MAIOH, Senior Lecturer, Environmental Health & Occupation Hygiene, School of Science, Western Sydney University. “Farming is one of the most hazardous jobs. Farmers often live where they work, so there’s little time for rest — especially for their lungs. While accidents are common, long-term health risks from dust, noise, and chemicals … Continue reading...

“Warren Buffett Points Out 1 Sign to Quickly Spot Someone With Bad Leadership Skills Warren Buffett has always relied on capable and trustworthy managers to run his Berkshire Hathaway-owned businesses. However, it can be challenging to judge who’s trustworthy and who’s not since Berkshire has experienced its fair share of disappointments. In his 1989 annual … Continue reading...

RR Recommends: Originally meeting him at Positronics in Amsterdam, Todd McCormick has been a friend for over 30 years and I’ve watched him do outstanding and ambitious work in Cannabis over that time. The result is his Authentic Genetics Seed Co., home of legendary genetics such as Skunk #1, Haze, and Northern Lights, direct from … Continue reading "Authentic Genetics Seed Company"...

Scientific Data volume 12, Article number: 905 (2025): “Comparing bioconcentration factor between plant species and components Besides uptake of an element, which tissue and location the plant moves the element to (i.e., translocation) is an important part of how the plant removes the element from the soil. Differences in elemental levels between different plant components are reported in...

First “Hemp” was medicine, then bast fiber, then grain, then hurd, then whatever was in trichomes such as terpenes and CBD. Next “Hemp” was CBD from U.S. biomass converted to THC and Frankenoids then CBD from cheaper foreign CBD, then a non-tobacco tobacco replacement. Then it was acid-form marijuana, proving the joke that is Prohibition. … Continue reading "Hemp is...

For years social media platforms shadow-ban our Posts, and sometimes outright ban us altogether. But so does “our” side. With everyone in their own little siloes, hemp’s right hand doesn’t know what the left is doing, and rarely even acknowledges its existence. With a 95% drop in U.S. acres over 5 years, there appears to … Continue reading "Shadow Bans Aren’t...

Twenty-six years after I introduced shelled hempseed to millions of people on CBS-TV by making hemp potato salad with Roseanne Barr on her talk show, the product HempNut inspired ends up on comedy show “Hacks” in a cooking segment. Tip: lightly roast the shelled seed in a dry pan for more crunch. But guess what? … Continue reading "Hemp on “Hacks”"...

Remember the days of the “26-year-old yoga instructor in LA never before in business tasked with sourcing $6 billion worth of CBD annually for a big client” a decade ago? I still say it was at least in part the Chinese doing market research. They now supply most of the “U.S. Hemp” market via CBD … Continue reading "MA-rket Research?"...

When two textile scientists travel the world sourcing handmade products, the result is this: “We are researchers who are passionate about plants, heritage textiles and cultures. During our field journeys, we have collected a number of traditional manually produced textiles which we have studied, analyzed and also shown in exhibitions. Our goal is to share … Continue reading "Traditional...

2024 USDA Hemp Data are in. Most of US hemp’s value is in growing hemp flowers for CBD/CBG extraction, Type 3 buds for smoking like Nobacco, Type 3 buds for spraying “Hempnoids” on like delta-8, and straight-up Type 1s and 2s regulated as “hemp” in that state...

This is your tax dollars at work, but will they survive the Trump slash-and-burn rampage?  “The National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) funded dozens of projects, in various competitive and noncompetitive programs, aimed at creating knowledge that will help make hemp a viable and lucrative crop in the U.S. In fiscal years 2021 and … Continue reading "USDA/NIFA Hemp Grants"...

The The Richard Rose ReportThis Week newsletter, a free weekly service that replaced CannaSearch Daily, has ceased for now.   It featured dozens of posts on the latest news, studies, analysis, context, history, products, and policy on all aspects of hemp (low-THC Cannabis), including seed, fiber, and phytocannabinoids, delivered direct by email. MailChimp has a bug that prevents … Continue...

2024 USDA Hemp Data are in. Most of US hemp’s value last year was in growing hemp flowers for CBD/CBG extraction, Type 3 buds for smoking like Nobacco, Type 3 buds for spraying “Hempnoids” on like delta-8, and straight-up Type 1s and 2s regulated as “hemp” in that state...

Drug laws are the only reason crack, fentanyl, and “intoxicating hemp derivatives” exist in place of the safer, cleaner natural substances they replace. Since an appeals court long ago ruled that Scheduling is a political not scientific process, DEA is just the hired muscle working to protect cartel profits. According to Nobel-winning conservative economist Milton … Continue...

Apply this carbon life-cycle analysis to hemp grain as food replacing high-carbon-impact CAFO meat and the impact is at least 3-times larger. This study compares the carbon impact of hempcrete to 3 conventional insulations. But once a wall is built it will never need hemp again, whereas grain as food is already consumed by millions … Continue reading "Carbon Life-cycle Analysis for Hemp"...

Get your free copy of HempToday® Magazine’s Q1 2025 edition: “As Ukraine confronts the monumental challenge of rebuilding from the devastation wrought by its war with Russia, the need for innovative and sustainable construction solutions has never been more urgent. And industrial hemp can emerge as a key component in this effort.“ Click here for … Continue reading "Free:...

SYSTEMATIC REVIEW article, Front. Oncol., 14 April 2025; Sec. Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, Volume 15 – 2025, https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2025.1490621 Meta-analysis of medical cannabis outcomes and associations with cancer “This work constitutes a data-driven sentiment analysis and comprehensive correlational calculations through two separate methodologies, reviewing the text...

There is no assurance whatsoever that hemp will once again be legalized via the next Farm Bill. None. Zero. Zip. Nada. Niente. A profoundly dysfunctional Congress already kicked the can down the road for a year, and by then any opposition to hemp will be well-formed. If not in the Farm Bill, industrial hemp even … Continue reading "No More U.S. Hemp?"...

Here’s a photo by Malcolm MacKinnon of the members of the Hemp Industries Association at its 1994 conference in Arizona. I labelled those whom I could see and recognize. Note how few of us are still active (or alive) 31 years later...

We’re now in the Age of the Criminal where all traditions, manners, etiquette, policies, routines, rituals, protocols, customs, mores, norms, standards, ethics, and rules of law and civility are out the window, #nocrimesmatter and #anythinggoes. For a generation raised on Participation Trophies, being half-assed at President by pretending to not know how anything works is … Continue...

When Georgia Meloni was elected Prime Minister of Italy in 2022, someone on LinkedIn asked me what I thought. I replied that electing a Fascist never turns out well, and someone chimed in “she’s just a little bit fascist, not to worry.” Well, she just unconstitutionally banned industrial hemp in Italy, all of it. Thousands … Continue reading "Italy Illegally Bans Hemp"...

Premiered Mar 28, 2025 In this special episode, we sit down with hemp pioneer Richard Rose, a trailblazer in the industry with decades of experience in hemp-based food, policy advocacy, and innovation. We dive into key topics, including: Join us for an insightful discussion as we bridge history, advocacy, and the future of hemp and … Continue reading "VAC Roundtable #88: Richard Rose...

If legality is defined by enforcement, then Type 1 Cannabis, Marijuana, is legal. Since one can now buy online from many different vendors Type I 15-30% THCa flowers from Colorado and 67% delta-9 THC artisanal hash from Oregon, all with legit COAs, marijuana appears to now be legal. The THC in all raw Cannabis is … Continue reading "Type 1 Now Legal"...

Download free Canada’s “National Industrial Hemp Strategy” from 2008, 358 pages. Includes settings for harvesting equipment. Executive Summary Growth of the Canadian Industrial Hemp Sector The history of hemp cultivation is as old as the history of civilization. In North America, hemp was a crucial crop during the colonial period, and it continued to be … Continue reading...

If small-town local cops will arrest for a Schedule 4 federally-controlled substance like Viagra®, they’ll arrest for a more-restrictive Schedule 3 federally-controlled substance like Cannabis (Marijuana, aka drug cannabis). Especially Cannabis, with Schedule 3 it gives local cops a way to bypass state and local laws legalizing and regulating it, bypassing the Tenth Amendment which …...

While there was a hemp bill introduced in Congress every session since 2005, only because of CBD was hemp finally legalized federally in 2018. But since then, FDA’s recalcitrance at regulating CBD has crashed the industry and hurt patients. The unintended consequence of it was the emergence of new psychoactive THC products originally made from … Continue reading "Regulatory Entourage Effect"...

The Hemprentice is a workshop to educate new “hempreneurs” on all aspects of industrial hemp products business, by those who have actually done it before. Not THC and CBD, but industrial hemp such as grain (seed) and fiber products. And it’s not a competition or a reality TV show, just sharing of experience and wisdom … Continue reading "The Hemprentice"...