Tag: Hemp
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Navigating the Alphabet Soup of Legal Cannabinoids: A Comprehensive Consumer’s Guide To THCO, THCP, THCA, HHC, Delta 8, Delta 9, Delta 10, CBN, CBG, CBC, CBDA and CBD
Navigating the Alphabet Soup of Legal Cannabinoids: The 2024 New Year’s Comprehensive Consumer’s Guide To THCO, THCP, THCA, HHC, Delta 8, Delta 9, Delta 10, CBN, CBG, CBC, CBDA and CBD Follow WeedPress on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/WeedPressWordpress Cannabis cards available at https://www.swiftiemed.com/ Medical cards are still half off, just $50 for your medical cannabis card, apply…
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Just Outside Rochester Minnesota Is A Huge CBD Hemp Field
I gotta stop there sometime and take some pictures. What looks like a few acres of cannabis plants are growing and blowing in the wind, with CBD signs posted along the fence that are tall and easily seen. The field of green is about 30 yards from the highway.
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Brett Favre SIGNED: Legendary NFL Quarterback Endorses Hemp CBD Over Opioids For Pain Recovery
Brett Favre is the latest professional athlete to publicly endorse and advocate for the medicinal use of cannabis for post-game or workout session recovery. Here’s one of Brett Favre’s ads: Green Eagle is the go-to source legendary NFL player Brett Favre uses and endorses for effective, affordable relief from discomfort and soreness as well as…
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Bad News For Hemp: Hemp Markets In Iowa Unlikely To Turn A Profit, Says Iowa State University Crop Expert
The opportunities and challenges with hemp By Chad Hart Integrated Crop Management News, Iowa State University Extension and Outreach The following is an excerpt from this article over at Aberdeen News: To me, the biggest challenge for anyone exploring hemp, either as a producer or as a landowner with a tenant possibly producing hemp, will…
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Small Business Administration Refuses Cannabis Businesses Corona Disaster Relief Business Loans
The reason? Federal prohibition not exempting state laws (yet). State legal businesses cannot get federal access to business relief funding due to federal prohibition. This article from Tom Angell’s excellent as always Marijuana Moment has the details, and is yet another reason why the state’s failure to protect their state legal industries by ducking the…
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Iowa FFA Students Tour Hemp Processing Facility During National Convention
The warehouse Iowa children visited to learn about hemp is in Hoosier land. Hat Tip to Fred Perryman for the post share. 2019 looks fantastic in the rearview for Iowa cannabis reform efforts, and 2020 looks to be anything but disappointing too! Hemp warehouse employee Reina Bannister said on Facebook, “A big day at…
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Iowa farmers one step closer to legally grown hemp
KCCI explains a rule coming out today that brings us closer to finally having CBD legal, and other hemp products, in Iowa. CBD is currently illegal still.
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Hemp Farming In 2019 Quadruples, Says Report
Tom Angell writes at Forbes: d Hemp Farming Quadrupled In The U.S. This Year, New Report Shows U.S. farmers have been licensed to grow 511,442 acres of marijuana’s non-intoxicating cannabis cousin this year—a 455 percent increase over 2018 levels—according to Vote Hemp’s annual survey of state agriculture departments. That’s up from 78,176 acres grown last year, 25,713 acres in 2017 and 9,770 acres in 2016,…
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Can Iowa Farmers Can Grow Hemp Immediately? New Iowa Hemp Industries Association Facebook Page Created May 13 2019 Appears To Say Yes
Click here to follow the new IHIA Facebook page According to the following post, this article from the USDA says Iowa farmers can grow hemp immediately. Pretty sure that’s not true, but I could be wrong. You can read about Iowa’s recent legislation relegalizing hemp here. Update: Misunderstood the post, they were right…
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The Gazette: Why CBD Is Illegal In Iowa And Other States As Of May 2019 (Despite Unapologetic Salesmen Preying On People And Claiming “Legal In All 50 States”)
CBD confusion, lies, and intentional disinformation from CBD salesmen with hidden agendas these past two years is explained quite excellently in today’s Gazette: From The Gazette: CBD is easy to get, but Gov. Reynolds warns Iowans it’s still illegal for most of us In signing hemp bill, governor reminds us one of hemp’s non-toxic derivatives…
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Iowa House Legalizes Hemp — On To Governor’s Desk
Representative Jeff Shipley announced the vote on Facebook an hour ago: The Gazette: Iowa House OKs Hemp Farming, Though Some See Limited Opportunity
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Representative Beth Wessel-Kroeschell Talks Hemp, Federal Law, New Medical Cannabis Bill
This week’s near-unanimous vote to expand Iowa’s medical marijuana program continues to be talked about in the media. Our local representative for Iowa State students says she will be introducing an amendment to the hemp bill, House FIle 733. From today’s town hall at Ames City Hall: “One good thing that did happen in…
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Here’s The Imperfect Medical Marijuana Bill Passed At The Statehouse Today After Six Years Of Work
Uploading video to YouTube so you can watch the full discourse for yourself and make up your own mind. Thanks for following WeedPress on Facebook. Today’s vote was nearly unanimous. House File 732 had various amendments offered. Representative Jeff Shipley’s amendment was withdrawn. He spoke about being confused as to why marijuana is controversial, that…
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Developing: Story County Attorney Says CBD Illegal | WeedPress Statement On 10 O’Clock News From Tonight’s Fallout News Found Here
CBD is currently still illegal in Iowa. Now it’s up to the Legislature to free thousands of Iowans from unregulated, contaminated products sold by profiteers as a distraction from whole plant medicine. News Channel 5 has the latest: Jason Karimi is a medical marijuana activist. He is the executive director of Iowa patient’s…
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House File 733 Is Going Places
House File 733 seems to be going places. I’m not formatting this but the link is there and you are mandated to read these bills if you’re going to lobby this year and be respectable and not get discredited. This year’s session at the Legislature is very cooperative. Liking what I’m seeing: https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ga=88&ba=HF733 …
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This Dramatized Video From South Dakota’s Governor Calls CBD An Unregulated Drug That Isn’t About Farmers But Marijuana Industry Profiteers
This video below is just vicious — using polished media talent to make her look like she knows what she’s talking about regarding the reasons hemp just “can’t” be legalized. I wonder which drug cartel she’s protecting as a member of the US government. The fact that she has to say her veto isn’t…
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Did The Wyoming Farm Bureau Just Call Today’s Hemp Bill Passage The “Best Bill of The Session?” [VIDEO]
Video courtesy of Reverend Brandon Baker of Greenfaith Ministries Governor Gordon: Farm Bureau any comments? Off-screen: Best bill of the session. Thank you for signing it! (Laughter) Governor Gordon: Alright. Off-screen: Like Christine said, (unintelligible) Rev Baker: Growing like hemp Governor Gordon: Fantastic. Well I don’t want to shut anybody off but it’s probably…
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Here’s The Newly Updated Marijuana Bills Advancing At Iowa Statehouse To Fix Muddled Marijuana Industry: Senate File 501 And House Study Bill 244
As of March 6th, 2019, our newest incarnation of a bill from our kingly statehouse, Senate File 501, passed full committee yesterday, was previously known as Senate File 256. House Study Bill 244 is not yet up on the Legislative website. You’ll see a link to the bill here shortly.
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US Department of Agriculture Announces Hemp Production Program For Farmers | Rule Making Underway For Program Guidelines Following Passage of 2018 Farm Bill
From the USDA website: Hemp Production Program February 27, 2019 The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill, Section 10113) directs the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to issue regulations and guidance to implement a program for the commercial production of industrial hemp in the United States. USDA has begun the process to gather…
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Iowa’s Neighbor Missouri Votes For Medical Ganja
From NPR: Voters Relax Marijuana Laws In 3 More States: Michigan, Utah, Missouri
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Could Cannabis Replace Traditional Labor Medications? A High Times Report
High Times had an article a couple weeks ago that sounded familiar. Melanie Dreher’s studies in Jamaica on pregnant marijuana patients was instructive decades ago — could Western society be making way for the pregnant Marijuana Mom? From “Could Cannabis Replace Traditional Labor Medications:” Pot Use During Pregnancy People with a spectrum of aches, pains,…
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Legislative Session Underway: Top Cannabis Stories Around the State
I haven’t posted in over a week now as I’ve been spending most of my time on the phone or computer talking with people. This activism thing is a full time job these days, with no pay, little to no thanks, and a lot of headaches. I love this job. Here’s some of my favorite…
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Carl’s Cannabis Corner, January 23, 2011
http://blip.tv/file/4673441 My guest is Jason Karimi, Author of WeedPress Blog .We will discuss efforts to find a sponsor for medical marijuana legislation in Iowa, as well as Jason’s role in co-founding Iowa Patients for Medical Marijuana and the effort to establish a Board of Directors for the organization. We will also discuss: SSB 1016 –…
WeedPress: The Paper Trail 