A monumental and historic piece of legislation seeks to change the Controlled Substances Act by removing hemp and “hemp tetrahydrocannabinols” from the most restrictive Schedule I classification was passed by the Senate on Thursday, June 28, 2018. The 1,000-page piece of legislation known as the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, or just Farm Bill for short, contains U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) Hemp Farming Act language normalizing hemp as an agricultural commodity....

The Hemp Industries Association (HIA) and Vote Hemp launched the 8th annual, nationwide Hemp History Week, June 5-11, 2017. Missouri hemp and cannabis activists don't have much to celebrate during the 2017 Hemp History Week. The Missouri Senate failed to pass Paul Curtman's HB 170 hemp bill in the 2017 session which would have allowed the Show-Me state to start industrial hemp cultivation. This marks the third year in a row Paul Curtman (R) from District 109 has sponsored an industrial...