CannaMD

JULY 19, 2020

Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) made far fewer cannabis-related arrests in 2019 than in previous years. Let’s take a closer look at what DEA data reveals. Per the DEA’s Domestic Cannabis Eradication/Suppression Program (DCESP) , a whopping 4,003,194 cannabis plants were seized and destroyed in 2019.

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Canna Law Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

I’ve been representing clients in California’s cannabis industry since 2018. Our firm has been representing businesses in the space for many years before that, in states with more mature licensing programs. I say “apparently” because HHS’s letter to DEA is redacted to the point of uselessness.

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Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

You might think it’s California,but actually it is …… According to recently published DEA data about illegal grows it is Kentucky, where both recreational and medical marijuana are still illegal. The DEA confiscated over 1.8 Across the United States, the DEA seized 2.82 million plants in 2017.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 16, 2022

According to figures published in the DEA’s Domestic Cannabis Eradication/Suppression Program Statistical Report, agents and their partners confiscated approximately 5.53 million plants via its domestic eradication program. Federal law enforcement agents and their partners seized over 5.5 million plants were confiscated).

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Cannabis Law Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Domestic Hemp Production Program, which was established by Congress as part of the 2018 Farm Bill. USDA’s interim final rules requires that hemp plant testing must be conducted by a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)-registered laboratory, but Virginia has only a small number of DEA-registered labs.

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Freedom Leaf

OCTOBER 15, 2018

On September 28, the DEA designated Epidiolex —a plant-based CBD pharmaceutical manufactured by the UK-based GW Pharmaceuticals—a Schedule V drug in the government’s list of controlled substances. schedules were created by the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) in 1970 and are interpreted and enforced by the DEA. More CBD Coverage.

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Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

With the recent passage of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 — the 2018 Farm Bill — these are exciting times for many in the cannabis industry. The 2018 Farm Bill means that hemp will be regulated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), not the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). PUBLISHER: CANNABIS LAW REPORT.

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Canna Law Blog

JULY 26, 2023

Before the 2018 Farm Bill, only a few states ran limited “research” pilot programs for hemp. Before the 2018 Farm Bill, hardly anything happened with the crop; and even then it was fits and starts. After the 2018 Farm Bill passed, though, the gold rush commenced. The 2018 Farm Bill was supposed to reverse that.

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Canna Law Blog

APRIL 25, 2019

Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) released a statement, in which the agency clarified that the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill rendered the importation of hemp seeds legal. As we previously explained , the 2018 Farm Bill legalized hemp, hemp seeds, and other derivatives by removing them from the Controlled Substance Act.

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The Cannigma

AUGUST 16, 2022

Indiana does not have a legal medical or adult-use cannabis program. It started up again under the 2014 Farm Bill that allowed farms with DEA approval to grow hemp for research and expanded after the 2018 Farm Bill passed. Does Indiana have a medical cannabis program? Medical: No Recreational: No Reciprocity: N/A.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 7, 2021

Pennington, who focuses on federal appeals and regulatory issues, is co-counsel on several high-profile cases against the DEA regarding cannabis research, hemp, and psychedelics. Circuit), a pending petition for review of DEA’s August 2020 Interim Final Rule purportedly implementing the 2018 Farm Bill’s amendments to the CSA.

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Canna Law Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2020

Nathalie Bougenies recently wrote about a lawsuit filed against the DEA by the Hemp-CBD industry and we have written several times about the problems with the DEA’s rule: Watch Out! The DEA Just Passed a BAD Interim Rule Impacting Hemp CBD and Other Cannabinoids. The DEA Does Not Want You To Worry About Its New Hemp Rule.

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Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Cannabinoid Hemp Program Regulations (Finally) Finalized. While much attention is focused on New York’s adult-use cannabis market, the CCB and Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) are also responsible for overseeing both the Medical Marijuana and Cannabinoid Hemp Programs. CBD products).

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 9, 2021

Hemp growers and processors are required to register annually with DATCP as part of the state’s Hemp Research Program, which will continue through the 2021 growing season. “There’s been some constant change with the federal government, how they’ve taken that program and then states have had to adjust.

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SpeedWeed

DECEMBER 28, 2018

In my defense, 2018 has been a wild ride in the world of weed, a 12-month timespan which truly could be called “the best of times and the worst of times,” or perhaps just the highest and lowest of times. The Top 10 Cannabis Stories of 2018. But until then, here are the buzzes and bummers 2018 had to offer.

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SMPL

MAY 6, 2020

A 2018 secret memo, released as part of the lawsuit settled, reveals the Trump Administration believes the nearly 50-year-old program in Mississippi has always been illegal. The National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) manages the University of Mississippi program while Obama’s plan would run through the DEA.

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Greenspoon Marder Cannabis Law Group Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The 2018 Farm Bill directed USDA to establish a national regulatory framework for hemp production in the United States. Domestic Hemp Production Program through an interim final rule which was made available yesterday and will be published in the Federal Register on October 31. Obtaining a Hemp License. State Hemp Program Contacts.

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Canna Law Blog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Until recently, CBD resided in a legal penumbra where hemp was still scheduled on the federal Controlled Substances Act and could not be cultivated without a permit from the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”). 2018 Farm Bill. The 2018 Farm Bill didn’t regulate CBD though. States do their own thing.

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Canna Law Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

Unlike hemp licensees and other businesses, they aren’t allowed to take advantage of the truck-sized, intoxicating loopholes that were created by the 2018 Farm Bill. Both Oregon and California (and now Washington) have THC program export bills, but those laws are anticipatory and mostly symbolic. That would change here.

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TheAnswerPage

APRIL 14, 2020

Epidiolex, a CBD product derived from the cannabis plant, received FDA approval for the treatment of Lenox Gastaut syndrome and Dravet syndrome in November 2018. Since Epidiolex is no longer a controlled substance, physicians are not required to notify the DEA when prescribing the medication. Is Epidiolex a controlled substance?

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The Blunt Truth

MAY 15, 2020

Maine made changes to their marijuana program. We reported last week on the DOJ’s memo finding that the Drug Enforcement Administration’s cannabis research program is non-compliant with international drug laws. This move comes amidst an investigation into the medical marijuana program. SBA funds, however, are not.

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Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

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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CannaMD

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

In Canada, recreational marijuana use was legalized in October 2018. As such, universities such as McMaster University and McGill University , among others, have built dedicated and comprehensive research programs. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) announced that it will evaluate 37 additional grower applications.

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Canna Law Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The hemp industry is up in arms over the USDA’s interim rules establishing a domestic hemp program. Most of us in the hemp industry are well-aware of the major issues in the interim rules: 15-day pre-harvest testing requirements, total THC, DEA laboratories, and crop insurance to name a few. 3% Total THC. 3% Total THC.

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Otherside Farms

JANUARY 10, 2021

Hemp Before 2018. This was part of their “Hemp for Victory Program.” However, in 2004, there was a lawsuit against the Hemp Industries Association and the DEA. Then in 2014, Obama signed the Farm Bill, which would then allow pilot programs for growing hemp, but it still wasn’t supposed to be used commercially.

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Veriheal

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

According to the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Schedule One drugs are “drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.” 3409), the VA Medicinal Cannabis Research Act of 2018 (H.R. Other substances like heroin and lysergic acid diethylamide also fall under this category.

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Canna Law Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (“ 2018 Farm Bill ”) legalized hemp by removing the crop and its derivatives from the definition of marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) and by providing a detailed framework for the cultivation of hemp. Apparently, that’s how the state wants to continue to operate.

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SpeedWeed

AUGUST 12, 2021

In 2018, the FDA approved GW Pharmaceuticals’ epilepsy drug, Epidiolex, which contained CBD as an active ingredient. The Drug Enforcement Administration [DEA] later followed that move with its own approval of Epidiolex, as well.). “CBD is the active ingredient in the approved drug product, Epidiolex.

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Otherside Farms

JANUARY 7, 2021

Before 2018. This was part of their “Hemp for Victory Program.” However, in 2004, there was a lawsuit against the Hemp Industries Association and the DEA. Then in 2014, Obama signed the Farm Bill, which would then allow pilot programs for growing hemp, but it still wasn’t supposed to be used commercially.

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Canna Law Blog

AUGUST 30, 2020

When the 2018 Farm Bill was inked, one of the biggest perceived wins was a provision prohibiting states from interfering with interstate transport or shipment of hemp. Many hemp transporters today face just as much risk when transporting hemp as they did before the 2018 Farm Bill was signed—and in some cases, even more risk.

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Project CBD

AUGUST 23, 2023

But today’s “hemp” market has moved way beyond CBD, as noted by several commentators who expressed concerns about the unregulated proliferation of high-dose THC consumables and novel synthetic intoxicants thanks to loopholes in the 2018 Farm Bill, which is up for revision and renewal in the coming months.

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 10, 2019

While other states have moved more aggressively to encourage commercial hemp, Washington’s total hemp crop in 2018 was less than 150 acres, all grown by the Confederated Colville tribes northwest of Spokane. Legislative changes have been proposed to harmonize Washington’s hemp laws with the federal government’s 2018 Farm Bill.

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CannaMD

AUGUST 8, 2020

Drugs, substances, and certain chemicals used to make drugs are classified into five categories (known as schedules ) depending on the Department of Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)’s definition of the drug’s acceptable medical use and abuse/dependency potential. More recently, the 2018 Farm Bill expanded hemp legislation.

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Cannabis Law Report

APRIL 8, 2022

Later that year, Doblin sued the DEA for the first time. submitted his first DEA application to manufacture marijuana for use in medical research. The MDMA Therapy Training Program was created to train the next generation of psychedelic therapists. Lyle Craker, Ph.D., Reddit awarded $82,765.95

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Cannabis Law Report

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The illicit extraction operation was detected by OLCC inspectors at an out-of-compliance Oregon Medical Marijuana Program (OMMP) medical grow site. Inspectors from the OLCC OMMP Marijuana Tracking Program were making a proactive check on the Lane County location which had been registered as an OMMP (GSA) grow site.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 28, 2021

Prior to December of 2018, hemp and all hemp-derived substances (including cannabidiol or CBD) were considered to be a form of “marijuana,” subject to the federal government’s most restrictive regulation under Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 (CSA). Where Things Stand Federally. ” See 7 U.S.C.

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Nature's Way Medicine

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The DEA would be mandated to approve applications for manufacturers to produce marijuana-derived, FDA-approved drugs. The program has 160,000 registered patients and about 700 doctors certified to recommend marijuana. Despite this growth, there is concern that the marijuana program in Ohio is not growing as rapidly as it could.

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