Last Week’s Hemp Commentary

Litigation Amidst a Regulatory Vacuum

The hemp industry is undergoing rapid change.  This isn’t news to Hemp Bulletin readers, many of whom are “living it”. There really is no parallel in recent history, though there are similarities to the dot-com boom of the nineties.  Investors were flooding into the hemp space in 2018/2019, unaware of the volatility that would characterize the upstart sector in its first year as a legal crop, with accompanying collapse of CBD hemp prices.

That volatility was one factor in the precipitous losses seen with publicly traded companies, some of which are shedding hemp assets while simultaneously acquiring them, as seen with Aurora’s acquisition of US CBD…