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New Hemp Testing Guidelines Make Meeting 0.3% THC Limit Difficult

Medicinal Genomics

The language in the 2014 Farm Bill classified hemp as cannabis with less than 0.3% This change shouldn’t affect most hemp farmers who have no interest in cultivating psychoactive plants; however, it does remove a safety net. The USDA said they will provide a list of DEA-registered labs on their website, but nothing has been posted yet.

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Industry Trembles After FDA Cracks The Whip

Cannabis Law Report

Seq (1970) and Drug Enforcement Administration’s (“DEA”) clutches, 2019 hemp production and sales exploded. Agricultural Act of 2014, 7 U.S. A wildly popular nutritional supplement and food additive, oil based hemp derived products like CBD racked up $1.1 containing less than 0.3% Code §5940. Budgeted at $6.1

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Cannacurio Podcast Episode 21 with Mark Diener of JULABO

SpeedWeed

And then, as those western states matured a little bit and then some events started happening for exhibits and the like, we sent a couple of people to scope it out back in around 2014 and 2015. Is it cost savings, increased sales, less waste, safety, all the above? ‍ Mark Diener : Yeah, that’s a good point, Ed.

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CPA Journal Article: “Providing Services to the Marijuana Industry”

Cannabis Law Report

1595 [the Secure And Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act of 2019] was introduced to increase public safety by expanding financial services to marijuana-related legitimate businesses and service providers and reducing the amount of cash at such businesses. To date, this audit requirement is still in effect. Cost of goods sold.

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Further Consideration of the STATES Act

Cannabis Law Report

The DEA has made previous requests–in 2001 and 2006–to the FDA for an evaluation of marijuana. But DEA regulators determined after both of those reviews that marijuana should remain a Schedule I substance. ii] See How to reschedule marijuana, and why it’s unlikely anytime soon , The Brookings Institution [2015].

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Schumer Introduces Legislation “Cannabis Administration & Opportunity Act” … Everybody Has An Opinion

Cannabis Law Report

“Closing the door on broadly supported incremental reforms like the SAFE Banking Act while the Senate seeks compromise on farther-reaching bills hurts the possibilities for consensus and ignores the very real needs of small business operators who have repeatedly said that access to banking services and traditional lending is an existential issue.