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The 2018 Farm Bill Has Passed Hemp, hemp, hooray! Congress has officially passed the 2018 Farm Bill, making hemp completely and permanently federally legal for the first time in over 40 years. Earlier this year, Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) proposed including the entire language of The Hemp Farming Act of 2018 in the Senate’s version of the 2018 Farm Bill. This language included amendments...

Throughout Hemp History Week this week, we’ve shared information about the long global history of hemp, why cannabis was made illegal, and how hemp compares to commonly used goods today like tree paper and cotton. Now, we’re going to take a deep dive into the current legal status of cannabis throughout all 50 states. Back in the 1700s in America, cannabis was the hottest...

While the specific locations of the growing operations may be covert, it’s no secret that illicit cannabis grow operations are peppered throughout the great American landscape - including within our national forests. Thankfully, largely in part to the rise of legal cannabis, that’s starting to change. However, it isn’t changing all that quickly. As recently as last year, experts still estimated that legal sales...

We've been hearing a lot of questions about our view on Colorado's Amendment X (the official write-up of the amendment can be seen here on page 6).   This proposal on the November ballot would, if passed, amend the Colorado Constitution to remove the current definition of 'industrial hemp' and defer to the current federal definition of hemp. Bluebird strongly supports this amendment because Colorado...