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Hemp and CBD: Submit Your Comments on USDA Interim Hemp Rules By December 30

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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. Moving forward into 2020 many crops would have to be destroyed that have otherwise been able to be used for extraction for the last several years.

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Hoban Law Group: Progress Report: 2018 Farm Bill

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The practical impact of this law is its clarification and affirmation that raw hemp – as well as cannabinoids, extracts and derivatives therefrom – is to be treated as an agricultural commodity, not a drug. Department of Agriculture (USDA), not the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). He can be reached at darren.kaplan@hoban.law.

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Every Florida Medical Marijuana Law You Need to Know

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MORE DETAILS: On June 16, 2014, Florida became the 22nd state to legalize (at least partial) access to medical marijuana when Governor Rick Scott signed the Compassionate Medical Cannabis Act of 2014. In practice, the chances of feds or the DEA sitting at the border waiting to catch someone – that’s just not happening.

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CBD Oracle Lab Study Shows Some Delta-8 Products Are 7700% Over the Legal Delta-9 THC Limit

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Five of them used an age verification form , which is in compliance with the FDA age requirements and state laws, where the customer has to upload a photo of a government ID, and the other required a signature on delivery of the package. Those cannabinoids are easier to extract so there’s less risk with doing it wrong.

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World Wide Weed: Risks and Best Practices for Advertising State Legal Cannabis on the Internet

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A user located in Los Angeles could see listings for around 100 area storefronts, and ads for “deals nearby” on cannabis flower, extract, edibles, and other products. Even then, publishers should require that any cannabis-business certify its compliance with state and local laws. any other Federal criminal statute.” 31 See Lisa N.

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AAFP ( American Academy of Family Physicians) Releases Marijuana, Cannabinoids Position Paper

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11,12 CBD, the non-psychoactive cannabinoid, is extracted from the flower of industrial hemp. 5,16 Tinctures are liquid, ultra-concentrated alcohol-based cannabis extracts commonly applied in and absorbed through the mouth. Cannabis sativa with less than 0.3% 13 Marijuana and hemp, technically speaking, are the same plant.

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Further Consideration of the STATES Act

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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. Emphasis added). State-compliant cannabis activity would no longer violate federal criminal law.

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