Hemp

Several Kentucky Congressmen called on U.S. House leadership to block budget language that would ban certain hemp-derived products, joining hemp farmers.

A Kentucky company says a new Tennessee law regulating hemp discriminates against out-of-state businesses.

Community leaders joined HempWood’s founder and employees Tuesday to celebrate the company’s addition of a second factory on its Murray campus – capitalizing on a growth in the hemp industry in the Bluegrass State and nationwide.

McConnell says the bill would close an unintended loophole from his 2018 bill to legalize hemp, but industry leaders fear a ban could decimate the hemp industry.

The bill passed earlier in the week with a late amendment to ban the sale of all hemp-derived beverages in Kentucky, but lawmakers dropped that provision on the Senate floor.

A newly amended bill would temporarily ban the sale of low-THC hemp beverages in Kentucky.

A new Kentucky law will limit which nicotine vapes businesses can sell. But a lawsuit claims it’s unconstitutional because it will restrict hemp-derived and cannabis vapes, too.

Tennessee lawmakers passed legislation to begin regulating hemp-derived cannabinoid products last year, banning the selling of them to those under the age of 21.

Murray State University's Center for Agricultural Hemp is receiving $247,500 through a Department of Agriculture grant that will fund two projects.

Legislation calling for state regulation of hemp-derived delta-8 THC products won overwhelming passage in the Kentucky House on Thursday.