Regulations

By William Sumner, Hemp Business Journal Contributor Last week, millions of Americans took to the polls to cast their vote in the 2018 midterm elections. Though the implications for the Democratic Party majority's retaking the House of Representatives are still taking shape, one consequence of...

The 2018 midterm elections left the U.S. with a Republican Senate, a Democratic House and three states with legalized cannabis. Michigan voted to legalize recreational marijuana, becoming the first state in the Midwest to do so, while Missouri and Utah passed ballot measures to allow the use of...

Thailand might soon join the list of countries where medical marijuana is legal. The country's legislature has proposed some changes to the law that would include marijuana and a locally-popular plant into a legal category that would allow possession and distribution under certain conditions....

Investors got some good news Tuesday night, but perhaps none got better news than marijuana stock investors. In addition to a Democratic House win and legalization measures passing in Michigan and Missouri, the cannabis industry lost one of its biggest opponents in Washington on Wednesday afternoon...

Marijuana stocks and the ETFMG Alternative Harvest ETF (NYSE: MJ) rallied Wednesday following encouraging results on cannabis legalization from Tuesday's midterm elections and after U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced his resignation. Data suggest traders nibbled at MJ ahead of the...

Democrats took control of the House and Republicans maintained their grip on the Senate, but another winner of the 2018 U.S. midterm elections is the cannabis industry. Aside from electing political candidates, citizens in six states states had measures related to the legalization of cannabis....

The U.S. is targeting Iran’s energy, banking and shipping industries with the restoration of all sanctions previously lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday. The campaign is meant to accelerate Iran’s economic decline as part of the American...

President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping are set to meet later this month in Argentina, but investors hoping for a swift resolution to the trade dispute may want to reconsider, according to Nobel Prize winner Michael Spence. Talks Will Continue 'For Some Time' Spence, a...

The global cannabis industry took two big steps forward this week. On Oct. 31, Mexico’s Supreme Court said the laws that ban recreational weed are unconstitutional, essentially opening the door for a potential legalization of pot in the future. The second major development took place across...

While Mexico began Día de Muertos celebrations, the country's Supreme Court offered a gift of epic proportions. The court ruled an absolute ban on the adult use of cannabis is unconstitutional. This doesn’t mean cannabis users south of the border can start lighting up in the...

By Sean Murphy, Director of Hemp Analytics, New Frontier Data Investors are waking up to the hemp industry. Hemp is proving its opportunity for financial returns, and potential for social and environmental impact. While the first five years of the cannabis stock "green rush" was dominated...

The leaders of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration like to boast they held five listening sessions to get feedback on their Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for possible changes in the Hours of Service rule. On Sunday at the American Trucking Association's Management...

FMCSA Administrator Ray Martinez (Photo: Jay Kan) But lead agency for commercial vehicle safety says autonomous trucking will serve drivers well and make industry better. The head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration says autonomous trucks may prompt more flexibility in hours of...

By Larry Mishkin, Hoban Law Group, Litigation Practice Group Counsel Last month, Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner signed into law Senate Bill 2298, the Illinois Industrial Hemp Act, which became effective immediately. The act allows Illinois farmers, in conjunction with a university or other recognized...

Every quarter, Brad Jacobs, XPO Logistics, Inc.'s chairman and CEO, rings up a cluster of journalists to discuss the company's financial results and to field as many queries from each as time allows.  If the New York Times had been on Jacobs' list of outlets, by now it has...