Category: Hemp
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Virginia Lawmakers Approve ‘Opaque’ Budget Deal Creating New Cannabis Crimes
Virginia lawmakers on Wednesday approved a budget package for the state’s upcoming fiscal year that includes last-minute amendments to create new crimes for cannabis possession and impose tougher restrictions on hemp products like CBD. The amendments would make possessing more than four ounces of weed in the commonwealth a misdemeanor punishable by a $500 fine…
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Virginia Lawmakers Drop Bill To Create New Weed Crimes, Crack Down On Delta-8
The Virginia Senate on Wednesday voted to shelve a bill that would have created new crimes for possessing weed while imposing stricter restrictions on the commonwealth’s hemp industry. S.B. 591, introduced in January by Sen. Emmett Hanger, a Republican representing Mount Solon, initially sought to prohibit the sale of weed edibles shaped like candy in…
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How A Tick Bite Turned This Maryland Native Into A Hemp Farmer
After a few weeks on antibiotics to treat a tick bite she received in 2002, Dawn Gordon assumed she would be fine. But by 2007, her Lyme disease symptoms were at times so debilitating that she was bed-bound, and eventually had to abandon her 35-year career in commercial real estate. Gordon, 59, sought a new…
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How Youngkin Turned A Simple Bill Into A ‘Monster’ For Virginia’s Hemp Industry
When first introduced by Virginia Senator Emmett Hanger, S.B. 591 wasn’t the apocalyptic measure that some in the hemp industry now see it as. The bill didn’t include anything about Delta-8 and hardly mentioned hemp. Initially, it mostly dealt with regulating the commonwealth’s medical cannabis industry by prohibiting the sale of weed products in candy-like…
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Ask A Stoner: What’s Delta-8 And Is It Worth It?
You’ve heard of it. You’ve read about it. Maybe you’ve even tried it. But what is Delta-8 THC? To me, it sounds like a screwed-up science experiment, as if the CIA was genetically engineering THC and one control group was called Delta-8. Maybe that’s just my sci-fi nerd brain, but you have to admit it…
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Cannabis Science Conference Returns to Baltimore With Goal To Make Pot Science ‘Accessible’
The sixth annual Cannabis Science Conference (CSC) is slated to return to the Baltimore Convention Center on Sept. 14 and 15 to showcase the latest scientific developments and innovation in the world of medical pot. The event will host more than 120 vendors with the goal of “advancing cannabis science.” Exhibitions will span four sectors…
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A New Socialist Coalition Wants To Localize The Fight For Cannabis Equity In Virginia
Cannabis advocates scored a huge win this year when Virginia passed a sweeping set of reforms legalizing the possession, home cultivation, and recreational sales of the plant. But for some, the work is only getting started. A new activist group is gearing up to take the fight for cannabis justice beyond Virginia’s state legislature, and…
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The Outlaw Report Podcast: Diabetes, Potography, and Hemp Underwear
The Outlaw Report Podcast host Scott Cecil is joined by Samuel McBee the creator of Potography Media and the founder and CEO of Custom Hemp. They discuss Sam’s experiences as a Type 1 diabetes patient and his experiences as a medical cannabis patient beginning in his youth. They also discuss Sam’s media project, Potography and…
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Will the U.S. Botanic Garden Display Hemp?
From the notoriously pungent corpse flower to the bright-red torch lily, the U.S. Botanic Garden has long dazzled visitors with an expansive display of exotic flora and rare plants. But the hemp plant—a more common species—has always been conspicuously absent from the garden, which sits just steps away from the Capitol Building in Washington. Now,…
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District Hemp Owner Talks CBD in D.C. Amid COVID and People and Pets’ Needs
Last week’s episode of The Outlaw Report podcast was a conversation with Barbara Biddle, the owner of District Hemp Botanicals, located in the DuPont Circle neighborhood of Washington D.C. Biddle also owns two other hemp CBD boutiques in Virginia. We discussed the hemp industry in D.C., and how her business has been affected by the…
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The Outlaw Report Podcast: District Hemp
After reviewing the top headlines, The Outlaw Report podcast host Scott Cecil is joined by Barbara Bittle, the founder and owner of District Hemp, a hemp & CBD boutique in the Dupont neighborhood of DC. Barb shares with Scott some of the challenges facing the local hemp industry during the Covid-19 pandemic even as a…
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Cannabis in the South: Advocates Talk Racial Justice and Reform Strategies
On 4/20, a Zoom panel about cannabis intersected with the imminent reading of the Derek Chauvin verdict, which highlighted the importance of racial justice in legalizing weed in the South. Five cannabis experts participated in the conversation that ran through the 4:20 hour and purposefully closed just before Judge Peter Cahill read the verdict, announcing…