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Apocynum cannabinum (dogbane, amy root, hemp dogbane, prairie dogbane, Indian hemp, rheumatism root, or wild cotton) [4] is a perennial herbaceous plant that grows throughout much of North America—in the southern half of Canada and throughout the United States. It is poisonous to humans, dogs, cats, and horses. All parts of the plant are ...
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While hemp and cannabis as plants are closely related cousins to one another in the same botanical family, California and the U.S. have tried to regulate them quite differently.
Hemp has been grown for millennia in Asia and the Middle East for its fiber. Commercial production of hemp in the West took off in the eighteenth century, but was grown in the sixteenth century in eastern England. [188] Because of colonial and naval expansion of the era, economies needed large quantities of hemp for rope and oakum. In the early ...
After banning hemp products that contain THC and other intoxicating compounds, California regulators are starting to crack down, catching retailers by surprise.
Reg Wydeven is a partner with the Appleton-based law firm of McCarty Law LLP. He writes a weekly column for The Post-Crescent.
Spreading harvested hemp in Kentucky, 1898. Hemp is a legal crop in the United States. It was legal in the 18th and 19th centuries, then production was effectively banned in the mid-20th century, and it returned as a legal crop in the 21st century. By 2019, the United States had become the world's third largest producer of hemp, behind China ...
California’s leading Democrats are letting the state’s hemp industry go to pot, killing legislation that would have banned hemp products available in stores that can leave buyers just as ...