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Intoxicating Hemp Swindle

Project CBD

A new study from an industry advocacy group in California examines the content of dozens of unregulated intoxicating “hemp” products that are easily available in the Golden State despite being banned by state law. The study, entitled The Great Hemp Hoax , was released Feb. Hemp not really hemp Speaking in a Feb.

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Court: DEA Must Explain Its Failure to Act Upon Pending Marijuana Cultivation Applications

NORML

A federal court has ordered the Drug Enforcement Administration to respond to a lawsuit charging the agency with failing to move forward with a 2016 policy to expand the total number of federally licensed marijuana cultivators. “[This filing is] asking the court for an order compelling the DEA to process our application.

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NORML Says DEA’s Newly Proposed Bulk Cultivation Rules Are “Unduly Onerous, Expensive, and Impractical”

NORML

The DEA now estimates that, under the new rules, it may approve between three and 15 total applicants. ” He added, “Further, the DEA has an incredibly poor track record in this arena – having for years now promised to expedite and streamline this process, but failing to deliver.

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Hemp CBD Across State Lines: North Carolina

Canna Law Blog

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. The law was modified in 2016 in House Bill 992.

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The Week in Weed: October 16, 2020

The Blunt Truth

Hemp growers are unhappy over the DEA’s hemp rule. Maine legalized recreational cannabis in 2016. dea hemp rule. The Hemp Industries Association and RE Botanicals are back in court, still unhappy over the DEA’s interim final rule on hemp.

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DEA Finally Agrees to Expand Marijuana Research Amid Pressure from Lawsuit

WeedAdvisor

The applications were submitted as far back as 2016. Despite a 90-day deadline for review, the DEA ignored this cut-off and simply sat on the applications for three years. This likely would have been longer, but the DEA had not anticipated a legal threat to force some action. Dozens of Applications”. .

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The DEA Is Finally About to End the Federal Monopoly on Research Cannabis Cultivators

SpeedWeed

After years of delays, legal challenges, and obfuscation, the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) finally announced that it would begin evaluating applications for federally-licensed research cannabis cultivators. . In 2019, a federal judge forced the DEA to explain its inaction.

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