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Hemp at the Winter Solstice

By: Cait Curley, What Daily Life Likely Looked Like in Pre-Christian Europe As the Winter Solstice marked the longest night of the year in pre-Christian Europe, communities across Celtic, Germanic, and northern agrarian cultures gathered not simply to observe a celestial turning point, but to endure one of the most difficult moments in the agricultural calendar. The solstice was less…

Morris BeegleDecember 18, 2025

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Trump orders less dangerous federal classification for marijuana

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Dec. 18 to federally classify marijuana as a less dangerous substance, the biggest change for the drug since 1970 and an opportunity for the industry to operate more easily.

Morris BeegleDecember 18, 2025

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Surviving vs. Thriving in a New-Era Hemp Ban

Jolted by the recent federal hemp ban of intoxicating products, brands are asking many questions, most of which only have speculative answers. The biggest: Now what?

Morris BeegleDecember 18, 2025

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Are THC Beverages the Future of Civilized Intoxication?

For most of human history, beverages have done more than hydrate us. They have organized our social lives, anchored rituals, shaped revolutions and quietly reprogrammed how civilizations gather after dark. Long before bars and breweries, there were fireside brews, crushed fruit mashes, fermented teas, communal cups passed in silence or celebration with juice, tea, coffee, beer or hot chocolate. Every…

Morris BeegleDecember 17, 2025

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Hemp at Year’s End: Holding the Line, Looking Ahead to 2026

By: RootSource Media Staff, As the year winds down and the holidays settle in, the hemp industry finds itself in a familiar place. Somewhere between hope and frustration. Between momentum and uncertainty. Between what this plant can do and what policy continues to get wrong. There’s no sugarcoating it. We’re closing out the year in a confused state. A looming…

Morris BeegleDecember 16, 2025

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Industrial hemp can fill needed niche in crop rotation

The U.S. hemp grain supply chain is really at a critical milestone, given where farming is in general and how far industrial hemp has come in less than a decade after 80 years of prohibition,” Rosen said. Victory straddles a great deal of the value chain relating to genetics, agronomy, processing, policy, marketing and food science.

Morris BeegleDecember 15, 2025

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Trump could reschedule marijuana to Schedule III, promising tax relief but raising new legal and industry concerns

President Donald Trump may announce plans to reschedule marijuana from a Schedule I drug to Schedule III — a shift that would formally recognize cannabis as having accepted medical use under federal law for the first time.

Morris BeegleDecember 15, 2025

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Remembering Michael Sligh, a champion for farmers and food justice

The first time I met Michael Sligh, I was working as an intern for the Center for Food Safety (CFS) in Washington, DC. It was 2002, and he walked past my desk where I was organizing a mailing for a new book that my boss had edited, called Fatal Harvest. I remember his steady gait and stoic face under a Kerry…

Morris BeegleDecember 14, 2025

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The UK Just Banned Two Ancient Functional Mushrooms, Stifling A Growing Industry And Hurting Customers

If you benefit from functional mushrooms, here's a story that'll boil your blood. Bristol Fungarium (a small UK mushroom company doing genuinely good work) just got slapped with a "Novel Food" classification by the Food Standards Agency for Turkey Tail and Cordyceps militaris. You read that right. Novel. Food.

Morris BeegleDecember 13, 2025

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Hemp industry rules loosened in sweeping law change

New Zealand - Seymour said the current licensing rules were heavy-handed and outdated, and would be replaced with new rules. Industrial hemp growers would no longer require a licence if the plants contained less than 1% THC.

Morris BeegleDecember 12, 2025