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New Hemp Testing Guidelines Make Meeting 0.3% THC Limit Difficult

Medicinal Genomics

This change shouldn’t affect most hemp farmers who have no interest in cultivating psychoactive plants; however, it does remove a safety net. Another potential headache for farmers is that analytical laboratories must be registered with the DEA in order to perform compliance testing. What does this mean for hemp farmers? THC threshold.

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Press Release: LegitScript Announces New CBD e-Commerce Certification Program to Ensure Accountability, Regulatory Compliance

Cannabis Law Report

Starting today, US manufacturers and merchants can apply through LegitScript to certify CBD products and websites that are in compliance with USDA, FDA, FTC, and DEA regulations, as well as state-specific laws. LegitScript’s CEO, John Horton, said the program will bring transparency and structure to the CBD industry.

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Frost Brown Todd: Take Heed: FDA & CDC Release Health Alerts About Delta-8 THC

Cannabis Law Report

With increased state and federal attention on these products, there is also an increased risk to industry participants beyond that of criminal liability, such as FDA/FTC enforcement, banking and insurance obstacles, and civil liability claims. We recently discussed some of these on our Hemp Legally Speaking podcast episodes.

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US Hemp Roundtable: Statement On The Status of Hemp Derived CBD Under Federal Law

Cannabis Law Report

Accordingly, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) no longer has any claim to interfere with the interstate commerce of hemp products, so as long as the THC level is at or below 0.3%. While the DEA is now officially out of the hemp regulation business, the U.S. The FDA’s position on CBD is unsettled and unsupported by law.

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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. A wildly popular nutritional supplement and food additive, oil based hemp derived products like CBD racked up $1.1 Farm Bill’s Impact and Rise of the FDA. Beyond removing plant cannabis sativa L. Budgeted at $6.1

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Cannacurio Podcast Episode 21 with Mark Diener of JULABO

SpeedWeed

Because back then, at the start, banking was a big issue and it was a whole cash only thing, and our finance people were like, how are we going to handle this?And Is it cost savings, increased sales, less waste, safety, all the above? ‍ Mark Diener : Yeah, that’s a good point, Ed. At first, there was a lot of skepticism.

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CBD Chaos in Spain

Sensi Seeds

All of these companies, the seeds banks, cultivators, manufacturers, grow shops, distributors, and online vendors operate in a grey market that permits them to sell their products as long as they follow some rules. In August 2018, reports of shops being raided and CBD product confiscated began to circulate on Twitter.

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