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Locked Out: SBA’s New Lending Policy Targets Hemp and Marijuana-Adjacent Businesses

Canna Law Blog

SBA policy timeline: A whiplash-inducing history The SBAs latest update to its 7(a) and 504 loan programs represents a return to the more restrictive, 2020 policy. June 1, 2025, the Current Policy This update reintroduces and expands on the 2020 restrictions, explicitly targeting Consumable Hemp Products. Otherwise, be specific.)

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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. 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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DEA Attempts To Regulate CBD Processing

Greenspoon Marder Cannabis Law Group Blog

Last week on Thursday August 20, 2020, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) published an interim final rule surrounding hemp and hemp derivatives. Simply stated, when the hemp plant is processed and its cannabinoids are extracted into a crude oil, or similar derivative, concentrated amounts of ? By: Nabil Rodriguez.

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Studies Dispel the Myth That Cannabis is a Performance Enhancing Drug

Veriheal

The authors of a 1996 paper, titled “ Performance-Enhancing Drugs, Fair Competition, and Olympic Sport, ” were cited in the WADA study, which claimed that “cannabis could be performance enhancing in sports that require greater concentration.”. Fast forward to 2019 and the DEA unveiled eagerly anticipated plans for cannabis research.

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Can I Use My Medical Marijuana in States Where It’s Not Legal?

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In practice, the chances of feds or the DEA sitting at the border waiting to catch someone – that’s just not happening. hash/concentrates. hash/concentrates. Adults 21 and older are allowed to possess and purchase cannabis effective January 1, 2020. hash/concentrates. hash/concentrates. concentrates.

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

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In 2015, Idaho state legalized CBD with a THC concentration of less than 3%. In Kansas, medicinal CBD entails a THC concentration under 5%. Nebraska legislators pushed an initiative to establish a regulated framework for the cultivation and distribution of medical cannabis on the state’s 2020 ballot.

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How Will the USDA Hemp Rules Affect California?

Canna Law Blog

In practice, that means that many of the existing California laws and regulations that are less restrictive than the USDA interim rules will need to be changed when California’s hemp production plan is submitted to the USDA (most likely sometime in early 2020).