Canna Law Blog

AUGUST 24, 2020

On Friday, the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) released an Interim Final Rule (the “ Rule ”) that, as we discussed , threatens the hemp industry by treating partially processed hemp extract not intended for consumption (also known as “intermediary hemp”) as a Schedule I controlled substance.

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CannaMD

JULY 19, 2020

Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) made far fewer cannabis-related arrests in 2019 than in previous years. At the same time, however, the number of illegal cannabis plants seized by the agency spiked. Let’s take a closer look at what DEA data reveals. Why the 16 percent spike from 2018 to 2019?

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Veriheal

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Since the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill , which permits the distribution of hemp-derived products at the federal level, the popularity of delta-8, delta-9, and delta-10 products has surged. However, many of them are still psychoactive, albeit at lower levels than traditional cannabis sold in legal states.

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SpeedWeed

MAY 18, 2021

Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) quietly made an announcement that’s expected to have a profound and long-lasting impact on cannabis research and development in the United States. In other words, the feds are ending their monopoly on cannabis grown for scientific purposes. cannabis researchers. cannabis researchers.

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Canna Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Last week the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued a bad interim hemp rule. North Carolina attorney Rod Kight raised these concerns as well and he and I both spoke to Kyle Jaeger of Marijuana Moment about why we think are concerned about the DEA’s interim hemp rule. Weekly in a phone interview.

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 26, 2019

DEA Announces Steps Necessary to Improve Access to Marijuana Research. The Drug Enforcement Administration today announced that it is moving forward to facilitate and expand scientific and medical research for marijuana in the United States. The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, which was signed into law on Dec.

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SpeedWeed

MARCH 10, 2021

Well, the DEA just released its 2020 National Drug Threat Assessment, and the report is full of stats on the United States’ most popular illegal addictions, new trends in intoxicants, and foreign trade — a.k.a. The US sourced 92 percent of its heroin from Mexico in 2019, according to product analyzed by a DEA tracing program.

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NORML

JANUARY 17, 2019

A bipartisan coalition of House lawmakers has introduced The Medical Cannabis Research Act of 2019 ( HR 601 ), to facilitate federally-approved clinical trials involving cannabis. To date, the US National Institute on Drug Abuse designates the University of Mississippi to be the sole provider of marijuana for FDA-approved research.

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Cannabis Law Report

APRIL 8, 2022

Marijuana Moment reports. Marijuana might be federally prohibited, but the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has effectively acknowledged that the plant’s seeds are generally uncontrolled and legal, regardless of how much THC might end up being produced in buds if those seeds were cultivated. percent THC. percent THC.

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Canna Law Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Griffen’s article is just one of many parsing the language of the 2018 Farm Bill and a 2023 DEA letter on the topic. See also: “ THCA and the DEA: Rod Breaks Down the Latest News ” from Rod Kight, an another attorney prominent in the space. I would say: “Someone over at DEA wrote a letter last year indicating that it’s not.

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Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

You might think it’s California,but actually it is …… According to recently published DEA data about illegal grows it is Kentucky, where both recreational and medical marijuana are still illegal. The DEA confiscated over 1.8 million marijuana plants in the state last year. million plants in 2017.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 16, 2022

million cultivated marijuana plants and made more than 6,600 marijuana-related arrests in 2021, according to annual data compiled by the US Drug Enforcement Administration. . million cultivated cannabis plants last year – a 20 percent increase over 2020’s totals. million plants via its domestic eradication program.

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Marijuana Lawyer Blog

JANUARY 12, 2019

Department of Justice, challenging the constitutionality of the federal law designating marijuana a Schedule I controlled substance proceeded recently to the next level with oral arguments before the U.S. Defendants are acting-Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, the acting director of the DEA and the federal government.

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Cannabis Law Report

JANUARY 31, 2020

WASHINGTON – DEA Acting Administrator Uttam Dhillon today announced the publication of the 2019 National Drug Threat Assessment, which outlines the threats posed to the United States by domestic and international drug trafficking and the abuse of illicit drugs. Press Release. 2019-NDTA-final-01-14-2020_Low_Web-DIR-007-20_2019.

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The Blunt Truth

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. New York releases new CBD regulations, and Governor Cuomo supports legal cannabis. The Montana Supreme Court denied a ballot initiative challenge, and some in the medical marijuana industry oppose the measure.

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Canna Law Blog

JULY 26, 2023

Last week, a LinkedIn post by cannabis economist Beau Whitney caught my eye, because Beau said something pretty amazing. Before the 2018 Farm Bill, only a few states ran limited “research” pilot programs for hemp. Before the 2018 Farm Bill, hardly anything happened with the crop; and even then it was fits and starts.

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Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

PUBLISHER: CANNABIS LAW REPORT. With the recent passage of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 — the 2018 Farm Bill — these are exciting times for many in the cannabis industry. The 2018 Farm Bill means that hemp will be regulated by the U.S. AUTHOR: DARREN KAPLAN & GARRETT GRAFF – Hoban Law Group.

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The Cannigma

AUGUST 16, 2022

Indiana does not have a legal medical or adult-use cannabis program. A bill introduced in January 2022 to legalize cannabis failed , but the state is exploring regulating and decriminalizing delta-9 products and restricting delta-8 products in the 2022 fall session. Indiana still has harsh cannabis laws. Possible penalties.

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Canna Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Namely, it sounds like certain Southern California licensed distributors are (allegedly) moving cannabis oil out of Mexico into California. This summer, the DOJ and the DEA sued the BCC because the BCC refused to comply with a DEA subpoena about the alleged extracurricular drug trafficking above. and nothing else.

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Freedom Leaf

OCTOBER 15, 2018

On September 28, the DEA designated Epidiolex —a plant-based CBD pharmaceutical manufactured by the UK-based GW Pharmaceuticals—a Schedule V drug in the government’s list of controlled substances. schedules were created by the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) in 1970 and are interpreted and enforced by the DEA.

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Canna Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

When Congress passed the 2018 Farm Bill, did it intend to legalize intoxicating hemp products? If it did, why didn’t it just legalize marijuana? Not to some courts, who think that the 2018 Farm Bill is so patently clear that it really doesn’t even matter what Congress intended. That in my view, is wrong.

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Canna Law Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

I wanted to drop a line today on an interesting piece of cannabis legislation moving through the Oregon legislative session. Most interestingly, the reconstituted SB 353 would allow OLCC licensees to export intoxicating products that fall under the federal definition of hemp, along with marijuana seeds. That would change here.

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The Blunt Truth

AUGUST 27, 2020

Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana. Pennsylvania’s governor is supporting cannabis legalization. The DEA has a new hemp rule. Governor John Fetterman’s full-throated support for cannabis legalization. of marijuana in 2018.

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Veriheal

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Many states in the US have legalized cannabis, thirty-eight states to be exact. Despite the widespread adoption, the Food and Drug Administration still classifies cannabis as a Schedule One drug. Simply put, in the eyes of federal law, cannabis is illegal. Is Medical Cannabis Legal? allow the use of medical cannabis.

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Canna Law Blog

MAY 24, 2022

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court’s holding that the 2018 Farm Bill legalized delta-8 THC products derived from hemp. ” Specifically, “the only statutory metric for distinguishing controlled marijuana from legal hemp is the delta-9 THC concentration level.”

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 9, 2021

Moshe’s name came up as a possible supplier of LSD when the Drug Enforcement Administration started investigating a California-based LSD and MDMA ring in 2018. One informant told the DEA that Moshe supplied them with LSD by the gram —with each gram containing roughly 10,000 doses, the complaint says.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 6, 2021

Marijuana Moment. House lawmakers approved spending bills on a wide range of cannabis-related policy issues. In the report, lawmakers took issue with the 2018 Farm Bill’s 0.3% THC cap for lawful hemp products and directed USDA to work with HHS and the DEA on a study of whether that threshold is scientifically backed.

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Canna Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

When Congress passed the 2018 Farm Bill, did it intend to legalize intoxicating hemp products? If it did, why didn’t it just legalize marijuana? Not to some courts, who think that the 2018 Farm Bill is so patently clear that it really doesn’t even matter what Congress intended. That in my view, is wrong.

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CannaMD

AUGUST 8, 2020

– because today’s post is a deep dive into everything you need to know about the most popular cannabis compound around. Let’s clear up one of the biggest sources of confusion right off the bat: CBD is a cannabis compound called cannabidiol. Researchers believe cannabis contains over 100 unique chemical compounds!

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SpeedWeed

MARCH 21, 2021

With all the buzz surrounding Delta-8-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in the cannabis industry, many questions circulate around what the up-and-coming cannabinoid is, where it comes from, and its legal status. It produces some psychotropic effects that are less potent than Delta-9, the primary form of THC found in cannabis.

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SpeedWeed

MARCH 17, 2021

With all the buzz surrounding Delta-8-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in the cannabis industry, many questions circulate around what the up-and-coming cannabinoid is, where it comes from, and its legal status. It produces some psychotropic effects that are less potent than Delta-9, the primary form of THC found in cannabis.

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 12, 2022

According to Law360, AK Futures – which sells the popular “Cake”-branded delta-8 THC vaporizers – won its latest court fight when a federal judge again ruled that hemp-based products are protected under federal copyright laws because hemp was legalized in 2018. Strictly speaking, delta-8 THC is not accounted for in the 2018 Farm Bill.

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 23, 2022

Finally, we will discuss intoxicating hemp issues that long-term operators in the hemp (and regulated marijuana) markets need to be considering. The court first delved into the statutory definitions of hemp and marijuana. Under the Controlled Substances Act and the 2018 Farm Bill, any part of the Cannabis Sativa L.

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Cannabis Law Report

APRIL 14, 2019

Last February, the Idaho State police pulled over a truck carrying 6,701 pounds of hemp and promptly seized it, allegedly claiming it was marijuana. Cops across the country seem to be mistaking legal industrial hemp with illegal marijuana (at least in some states like Idaho). Both hemp and marijuana are members of the genus Cannabis.

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Cannabis Law Report

JANUARY 23, 2020

Cannabis Catalysts write by way of an introduction. “After taking the first steps towards the liberalization of hemp cultivation over the course of the last few years, at the end of 2018 Thailand’s government decided to legalize medical cannabis as the first Southeast Asian country. CC INSIGHTS THAILAND MEDICAL CANNABIS.

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Medicinal Genomics

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The 2018 Farm Bill also closed a loophole that allowed high THCA plants to meet the 0.3% The language in the 2014 Farm Bill classified hemp as cannabis with less than 0.3% However, the cannabis plant does not produce THC. Including THCA in Total THC Number. THC requirement. and seize all the testing samples.

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The Cannigma

DECEMBER 13, 2021

While cannabis has played a critical function in the lives of South Koreans throughout the country’s history, today it’s considered extremely taboo and recreational use is illegal. Marijuana laws in South Korea: a brief overview. South Korea was the first country in East Asia to legalize cannabis for medical purposes.

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