Virginia Hemp Coalition

06/03/2026

Today is National Repeat Day—a lighthearted reminder that sometimes the best ideas are worth revisiting.

As we celebrate H**p History Month, it's worth remembering that industrial h**p isn't a new innovation. For thousands of years, civilizations around the world relied on h**p for fiber, food, paper, textiles, rope, building materials, and countless everyday products.

Perhaps the future isn't always about inventing something entirely new. Sometimes it's about rediscovering sustainable solutions that have stood the test of time.

As we face modern challenges related to housing, agriculture, environmental stewardship, and manufacturing, industrial h**p offers an opportunity to revisit a crop that has served humanity for generations.

Some things are worth repeating.

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06/03/2026

June 2 marks American Indian Citizenship Day, commemorating the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924.

As we celebrate H**p History Month, it's also an opportunity to recognize the deep connection many Indigenous cultures have maintained with the land through stewardship, sustainability, and the responsible use of natural resources.

Industrial h**p embodies many of those same principles today—offering renewable fiber, nutritious seed, sustainable building materials, and environmentally responsible products that can help support future generations.

By looking both to history and to innovation, we can continue building a more sustainable future rooted in respect for people, communities, and the land.

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06/02/2026

June marks the beginning of H**p History Month—a time to reflect on the people, events, and milestones that helped shape the story of one of humanity's oldest and most versatile crops.

One of those pivotal moments occurred on June 1, 1996, when actor and h**p advocate Woody Harrelson planted four industrial h**p seeds in Kentucky and intentionally challenged laws that treated industrial h**p the same as ma*****na.

At the time, Kentucky—once America's leading h**p-producing state—had prohibited all cannabis varieties, including non-intoxicating industrial h**p. Woody's peaceful act of civil disobedience led to his arrest and helped ignite a national conversation about h**p's agricultural, environmental, and economic value.

After a four-year legal battle, Harrelson was acquitted, and his efforts became one of many sparks that helped fuel the movement to bring industrial h**p back to American farms. Today, h**p is once again being grown across the United States for fiber, grain, building materials, textiles, paper, bioplastics, animal bedding, and countless other sustainable applications.

As we kick off H**p History Month, we honor the farmers, advocates, researchers, entrepreneurs, and policymakers who never gave up on this remarkable plant and helped pave the way for the h**p industry we continue building today.

Sometimes meaningful change begins with planting a seed.

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05/31/2026

“In this system, they’re very focused on, ‘Oh, we can make a lot of money, we can sell these medicinal cards, we can sell this ganja,’ but what of the people who have been persecuted? What of the people who have been sent to jail, imprisoned, even killed,” said Ras Nyah, a music producer from the U.S. Virgin Islands and a Rastafari Coalition member.
“We must address these things before we get too ahead of ourselves,” said Nyah, who attended the ceremony wearing a tracksuit in the Rastafari colors of red, green and gold.”

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — For Rastafari, the ritualistic smoking of ma*****na brings them closer to the divine. But for decades, many have been incarcerated because of their use of cannabis.

05/30/2026

05/30/2026

His new company, Christian Cannabis, aims to not just sell ma*****na to Christians, but to encourage them to use it to deepen their relationship with God.

“It has a place in your practice of prayer and worship. And that can help you connect to God in a deep and profound way,” says the company’s website, which has a “spiritual” tab on its homepage to go with “recreational” and “medical.”

While Gross maintains his brand is the first to target a religious demographic, ma*****na itself has a long history in religious and spiritual contexts, scholars say.

05/30/2026

“A free society does not require the government to sanitize life of risk. It requires truthful information, personal responsibility, and legal accountability for fraud or concealment.”

Cato's Dr. Singer on why the answer to cannabis risks isn't a new prohibition — it's honesty.
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05/29/2026

CBD is widely used for personal wellness. In the not-so-distant future, it could be used for environmental wellness.

05/29/2026

There’s a new push to regulate the cannabis and h**p industries in Illinois with mere days left in the spring legislative session, and small businesses are very concerned.