Statement on DEA new ‘rule’ on marijuana extract

Friends: This week, the DEA issued a new rule concerning “marihuana extract” (see attached). This has raised deep concerns in the hemp industry, particularly concerning the potential impact on CBD. Despite the increasing popularity of things like cbd vape...

PA Hemp Program – Epic Fail

This certainly isn’t the post we expected to be making after waiting for months for the Department of Agriculture to release the parameters for participation in the PA Hemp Program. To say we are disappointed would be an understatement. It is so restrictive and...

Hemp Means Business

We’ve received several requests to make this presentation from last week’s Women Grow event available online. You have to click to move between the slides and some of the animations are a little slow when viewed online versus downloading it, but here it...

Penn’s Best Mill Company Receives PA Preferred Status

Penn’s Best Mill Company has just been awarded PA Preferred status for their amazing line of cooking oils! PA Preferred is a state-supported agricultural marketing program. The State Department of Agriculture launched the PA Preferred program to identify and...

A note from our President

Thanks to the efforts of many, we’ve passed and Governor Wolf signed act 92, the PA Industrial Hemp Act, into law on July 20, 2016. Since then PAHIC board members and others have been working with PA AG Secretary Redding and his senior staff to discuss and implement...

Removing the Hemp Blindfold: A Marketer’s Emancipation

Our diligent work to persuade legislators to pass pro-industrial hemp legislation paid off this year. With the signing of Act 92, properly registered Pennsylvanians are now able to grow, cultivate, and/or market industrial hemp within the confines of the 2014 Federal...