Archaic regulations threaten Canada’s hemp industry

Archaic regulations threaten Canada’s hemp industry

Hemp is not marijuana, yet its regulators still treat it with suspicion

Canada has been a leader in hemp production and its utilization since production was legalized in 1997, but now it risks being supplanted by the United States because of archaic Canadian laws, Kim Shukla, executive director of the Canadian Hemp Trade Alliance (CHTA) says. “We have a world-leading industry here in so far as the

(HempTrade.ca)

Prairie hemp acres reaching plateau

CNS Canada — Hemp continues to draw interest as an alternative cropping option in Western Canada, but its slow pace in moving toward deregulation may be limiting the upside acreage potential. Early expectations are for planted area of about 100,000 acres this year, which would be slightly above what was seeded in 2014 and a