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By: RootSource Media Staff, Approximately 100 companies, groups, and industry-leading speakers from Japan and abroad will be present, covering the past and future of cannabinoids and hemp Tokyo, Japan, October 2025 – Japan’s rapidly evolving hemp and cannabinoid industry is entering a new era. The Japan International Hemp Expo 2025 (JIHE 2025) will take place November 14–15, 2025, at LUMINE…

From November 5 to 7, 2025, the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center (QSNCC) in Bangkok, Thailand, will once again host the Asia International Hemp Expo & Forum (AIHEF 2025), one of the most comprehensive business platforms for the hemp industry in Asia, which expects around 10,000 visitors.

The relationship with cannabis in Japan is one of deep history, cultural caution, and modern transformation. Once a sacred agricultural crop and symbol of purity, hemp (asa) was integral to Japanese tradition for thousands of years. Today, cannabis sits at the center of one of Asia’s most conservative drug policies. While many countries are decriminalizing or legalizing cannabis, Japan remains…

You could be forgiven for thinking Ryland Engelhart is religious. “This is very me,” the 45-year-old says as he maneuvers his golf cart past a massive, three-dimensional heart he carved out of wood using a chainsaw. Like his forearms, the heart is emblazoned with two words: be love. Across from it sits a wooden cross Engelhart says his family erected on a…

We have to admit it. Fungi are downright fun. They can be beautiful, spooky, downright gory, help fake plumbers grow, and play a crucial part in our planet’s ecosystem. We are also not alone in our enthusiasm for fungi, and these unique creatures are now being celebrated in the new book Planet Fungi: A Photographer’s Foray.

A "beautiful experience" isn't a term often used for a trip to an outhouse, but researchers at the University of British Columbia say the description fits for their mushroom-powered waterless toilet. The toilet turns human waste into compost using mycelia, the root network of mushrooms. The MycoToilet, inside the small cedar-sided building, has been dropped in among the trees at the university's Botanical…

Adding hemp seeds to beer during the brewing process may enhance the alcoholic beverage’s nutritional value, scientists reported in a new government funded study. “The final product—beer or a barley wort-based beverage enriched with hemp seeds—is characterized by a unique sensory profile and the presence of biologically active compounds,” the paper says. “It combines the traditional qualities of barley beer…

leading marijuana reform advocacy organization is circulating an open letter to the cannabis industry, stressing that the two pillars of the community “need each other” at a time when a “resurgent and well-funded neo-prohibitionist movement” is on the rise. “Neither industry nor advocacy will succeed alone,” the letter from Marijuana Policy Project (MPP) Executive Director Adam Smith says.