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DEA Attempts To Regulate CBD Processing

Greenspoon Marder Cannabis Law Group Blog

Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) published an interim final rule surrounding hemp and hemp derivatives. Even going back to the 2014 Farm Bill, the lack of regulations was apparent. In fact, most state departments of agriculture allowing for hemp cultivation under the 2014 Farm Bill expressly refused to regulate hemp processing.

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U.S. Cannabis Legalization Update: Who’s Still Waiting and Who May Legalize

Veriheal

In 2015, Idaho state legalized CBD with a THC concentration of less than 3%. In Kansas, medicinal CBD entails a THC concentration under 5%. In 2014, CBD with under 0.9% Despite these strict regulations, in 2014, the state legalized the use of CBD-rich cannabis extracts to treat intractable seizures. Possession of up to 1.5

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How Will the USDA Hemp Rules Affect California?

Canna Law Blog

The bill was clearly intended to bring California closer into harmony with the 2014 and 2018 Farm Bills, in anticipation for the state’s ultimate submission of a statewide hemp production plan to the U.S. This generally increases the THC concentration in hemp sample and pushes it over the 0.3

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Cannabis regulations in Indiana

The Cannigma

If you have more than 30 grams of flower or five grams of concentrate and a prior drug offense, you face a felony charge, jail time, and a $10,000 fine. 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.

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

Canna Law Blog

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. Not only does this testing method tend to increase the THC concentration in the hemp sample, and thus, pushes it over the 0.3

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BREAKING: USDA Releases Hemp Rules

Canna Law Blog

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. The total THC concentration level shall be determined and reported on a dry weight basis.

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Hemp Production Regulation in Final Stages

Cannabis Law Report

Samples must be taken to a DEA-registered laboratory for THC testing. Samples must be tested using post-decarboxylation or other similarly reliable methods for total THC concentration. Laboratories must report THC results based on delta-9 THC concentration on a dry weight basis and with a measurement of uncertainty.

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