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RIP Steve Levine: Once Arrested for Planting Hemp Seeds on DEA Lawn

Cannabis Law Report

Longtime hemp activist Steve Levine has passed away. Levine was former president of the Hemp Industries Association (HIA) and a board member of Vote Hemp. In 2011, Levine was arrested along with five others after they planted hemp seeds on the lawn at the DEA headquarters in Arlington, VA.

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Is Cannabis/Hemp Legal in the United States?

Otherside Farms

Marijuana and Hemp have been around for about 8,000 years when it was first discovered in Turkey. But where is it legal to grow cannabis or hemp? There are actually a few places in the United States, where it’s legal, but keep reading to find out everything you need to know about how to legally grow cannabis and hemp!

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Is It Legal to Grow Hemp in All 50 States?

Otherside Farms

Hemp has been around for about 8,000 years when it was first discovered in Turkey. But where is it legal to grow hemp? There are actually a few places in the United States, where it’s legal, but keep reading to find out everything you need to know about how to legally grow hemp! Before 2018. The 2018 Farming Bill.

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AIMS v. Garland: A Disappointment for Psilocybin Advocates, but Progressive Policy May Still be on the Horizon

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Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit dismissed a petition for review of a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) response to an attorney’s letter seeking advice and guidance on how a physician could administer psilocybin to a terminally ill patient without incurring liability under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). By Allison Campbell.

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Will HHC Show On A Drug Test?

Otherside Farms

Like delta 8 THC and delta 10 THC, commercial HHC is made from hemp-derived CBD. Japanese researchers published a paper in 2007 describing HHC’s impressive pain-blocking capability in mice. Commercial production of HHC is only being discovered and is still not widely known. How is HHC Produced? Is HHC Legal? percent.

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Report: “Key pharmacological differences between side effects of refined, pharmaceutical CBD formulations and whole plant extracts:”

Cannabis Law Report

It is extracted from hemp grown using conventional agricultural methods like pesticides and fertilizers and extracted using supercritical carbon dioxide, crystallized, and put into a formulation with sesame oil, strawberry flavoring, alcohol, and sucralose, to be used alongside existing anti-seizure medications like clobazam. 30 (2): 187–96.(1998).

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CBD, THC, AND CANCER

Weedistry

Backed by grants from the National Institute of Health (and with a license from the DEA ), McAllister discovered that cannabidiol ( CBD ), a nonpsychoactive component of the marijuana plant, is a potent inhibitor of breast cancer cell proliferation, metastasis, and tumor growth.

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