Canna Law Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Expect to see additional analysis of these rules on this blog in the coming days. Remember that a felony conviction, at either the state or federal level, results in a 10-year ban from participating in the legal hemp industry, unless a person was lawfully growing hemp under the 2014 Farm Bill before December 20, 2018.

Hemp

Canna Law Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2019

As the 2018 Farm Bill states, and as the USDA rules reiterate, the 2014 Farm Bill will remain in effect until October 31, 2020. Will hemp processing facilities (extraction) be required to have a DEA registration? Therefore, it is unclear at this time whether states will mandate that processing facilities be DEA registered.

Hemp

The Joint Blog

JULY 12, 2019

Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to order the DEA to process the applications. “We We are still working through the process and those applications remain under review,” said DEA spokeswoman Katherine Pfaff in an email Thursday. In June, Scottsdale Research Institute in Arizona asked the U.S.

DEA

The Joint Blog

AUGUST 5, 2019

Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to order the DEA to process the applications. “We We are still working through the process and those applications remain under review,” said DEA spokeswoman Katherine Pfaff in an email Thursday. In June, Scottsdale Research Institute in Arizona asked the U.S.

DEA

The Joint Blog

JULY 18, 2019

According to a 2014 study, a large majority of users exhibited signs of addiction after using it for more than 6 months. In fact, the DEA had in 2006 showed the intention of classifying Kratom as a schedule I drug, thereby outlawing its use along with other drugs like heroin and marijuana. Kratom is only legal in some US states.

CBD

SpeedWeed

MARCH 7, 2021

A couple of things that we’ve been working on, just published the fourth blog post that came out of the software stack report that we’ve touched on in the last couple of weeks. And then I’m also working on a blog post that covers regulators across the US. That’s gotten huge. ‍ Ed Keating : Yeah.

Extraction

SpeedWeed

DECEMBER 28, 2018

In August, Constellation Brands (brewers of Corona beer) spent $4 billion to massively up their stake in Canopy Growth, which in 2014 became the first publicly traded cannabis company in North America, and now lists on both the New York Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Pharmaceutical

Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Due to the Schedule I classification by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), researchers seeking to investigate health effects associated with cannabis must follow a regimented application process. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2014/03/conflicting_statean/ (www.americanbar.org). Accessed August 20, 2019.

Cannabinoids

Canna Law Blog

AUGUST 30, 2020

To be fair, the USDA did issue an opinion in mid-2019 that stated that states/tribes could not prohibit the interstate transport of hemp produced under the 2014 Farm Bill. We will be sure to continue writing on this topic, so stay tuned to the Canna Law Blog. The post Is Transporting Hemp Really Worth the Risk?

Hemp

Canna Law Blog

JULY 25, 2020

Cannabis has been in serious discussion in the Philippines congress since 2014. FDA and DEA in describing its reasoning for this position. FDA and DEA. In that same notice, the DDB reiterated that both recreational and medical marijuana remain illegal in the Philippines. It is interesting to note that the DDB pointed to the U.S.

Supply Chain

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”).

CBD

Canna Law Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

That was expected to change for hemp and CBD businesses after the 2014 Farm Bill, and especially after hemp was legalized as a commodity under the 2018 Farm Bill (and removed from the Controlled Substances Act). The remaining assets will be distributed to the remaining creditors in line of priority.

Hemp

Cannabis Law Report

JULY 12, 2019

METABOLISM CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL 63 (2014) 69 – 7 8. 32: United States DEA. My opinion on this all will come in a future blog, at this time we’re doing initial publishing as there are multiple entities, mostly Epilepsy Societies and Foundations, that are awaiting this document for analysis and publication. September 2004.

Extraction

Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The argument for delta-8 being legal (explained well in two blog posts by lawyer Rod Kight) is that under the 2018 Farm Bill, hemp is made legal provided the delta-9 THC content of the plant is below 0.3%. The second argument is based on a DEA interim final rule on the topic of synthetic THC. percent.”. Freeman, D., Godlewska, B.,

THC

Canna Law Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In 2014, Blumenauer boosted the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment, now known as the Blumenauer amendment , which prohibits the Department of Justice from spending funds to interfere with state medical cannabis laws. More recently, Blumenauer continues to press DEA to increase transparency  in the scheduling review process.

Legislation

The Joint Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The medical marijuana provision – first put in place in 2014 – states that the Justice Department can’t use its funds to prevent states or territories “from implementing their own laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana.”. This marks a 90% decrease.

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