Canna Law Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Department of Agriculture (USDA) published its interim final rules for the production of hemp under the 2018 Farm Bill. Our firm has provided a broad overview of the rules and written about the potential impact of the testing rules on the hemp industry. Who is a key participant? What does this mean?

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

In a July 24, 2019 dated guidance, Pennsylvania’s Department of Agriculture (“DOA”) announced it will be randomly collecting and testing hemp variety samples from 25% of licensed hemp growers for tetrahydrocannabinol (“THC”) content. Results that are returned with a THC% of less than 0.3%

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Canna Law Blog

APRIL 8, 2019

Hemp production is incredibly hot right now in Oregon. Since 2015 the number of licensed hemp growers has climbed from 13 to 584 (with much of that in the past two years) and hemp acreage has rapidly expanded to 11,000 acres. The new notice proposes to adopt these temporary rules permanently.

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Canna Law Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) released its interim hemp rules. Stakeholders will have 60 days to submit comments on the interim hemp rules. The 2018 Farm Bill requires states and Indian Tribes to submit hemp cultivation plans to the USDA. Hemp producers may not harvest before samples are taken.

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 10, 2022

Ward and Smith’s Hemp and Cannabis Law attorneys recently attended the fifth annual Industrial Hemp Summit. Breaking from past tradition, this year’s Industrial Hemp Summit was held at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center in the Research Triangle Park. USDA’s Commitment to Hemp.

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Canna Law Blog

MAY 23, 2019

While Oregon legalized hemp production in 2015, the Beaver State has seen a huge influx of hemp grower and handler registrations since the enactment of the 2018 Farm Bill , which legalized hemp under federal law. Many of our hemp clients have been asking how these rules would impact their businesses.

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SpeedWeed

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its final rule on hemp production on January 19, 2021. Much of the industry appears behind the ruling, signaling that American hemp is moving in the right direction. . The USDA listened to thousands of public comments, ranging from politicians to advocates to hemp owners.

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Cannabis Law Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The USDA has just released a draft version of the interim final rule for the establishment of a domestic hemp production program. post-decarboxylation THC content must be destroyed: “Because of this requirement, producers whose cannabis crop is not hemp will likely lose most of the economic value of their investment.”. Because 0.3%

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Cannabis Law Report

MAY 29, 2021

The Central Narcotics Office (Ucs), in fact, issues agricultural companies with the authorization for the cultivation of hemp plants from certified seeds of varieties allowed by EU legislation, for the purpose of transferring the starting plant material, i.e. cannabis leaves and inflorescences. Source: [link].

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NORML

MARCH 15, 2019

Department of Agriculture held a hemp listening session this week as regulators work to establish rules and regulations for production. At the state level, activists in Idaho have begun efforts to qualify a medical cannabis and hemp ballot initiative for the 2020 ballot. The bill will now be transmitted to the governor.

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

TOPIC 1 — HEMP CROSS POLLINATION LAWSUITS: What you need to know to protect yourself now. What will you do if your sinsemilla crop is seeded out by the hemp farm next door? TOPIC 2 — STRONG HEMP CONTRACTS: The difference between a solid, long-lasting business relationship and a future of nightmare litigation .

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SpeedWeed

MARCH 24, 2021

In the latest episode of the Cannacurio Podcast from Cannabiz Media, I speak with Tony Repanich, President and Chief Operating Officer of Shield Compliance , a comprehensive compliance management platform for banking cannabis-related businesses. Because there’s a lot of compliance issues in place here. Welcome, Tony.

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Veriheal

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Dr. Maxwell’s team also collected data contained in samples sourced from California. Although marijuana is federally unregulated, agencies have tried to prevent contamination since the hemp crop was legalized under the 2018 Farm Bill. Department of Agriculture (USDA) applies to other legal consumer products. Maxwell C.K.

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Medicinal Genomics

JANUARY 2, 2022

That finding implies the short-duration irradiation treatment used for cannabis and hemp are insufficient to knock down short qPCR amplicons. This may have the unintended consequence of incentivizing growers to use irradiation to pass compliance testing. Department of Agriculture’s definition of organic. Stay tuned.

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Cannabis Law Report

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Urabn Milwaukee write, Some Wisconsin hemp growers say state agriculture officials didn’t test their fields on time, making their crop more likely to surpass the allowed THC level. FL Morris is president of South Central Wisconsin Hemp, a farmer cooperative growing organic hemp for CBD. If a hemp crop has higher than 0.3

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NORML

MARCH 8, 2019

Activists in Nebraska, along with two pro-legalization Senators, qualified a 2020 medical cannabis ballot initiative petition to begin collecting signatures from registered voters in the state. Governor Mark Gordon (R) of Wyoming signed industrial hemp production legislation into law. AR resident? Legislation is pending, H. Update : H.333

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 1, 2019

Under the Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018—otherwise known as the 2018 Farm Bill—states and Indian tribes have the option to primarily regulate the production of hemp. Hemp Production Program. The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill, Section 10113) directs the U.S. February 27, 2019.

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Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

As predicted in our first Operation Table Rock post , Oregon law enforcement is leveraging misleading hemp enforcement statistics to seek more taxpayer money for further criminalization of the marijuana industry. Misleading Hemp Statistics. The OLCC created “presumptive testing” for conducting field testing of hemp grows.

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The Blunt Truth

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Plus, the USDA just issued an interim rule for hemp production. USDA Issues Proposed Rule for Hemp Production. The 2018 Farm Bill, which federally legalized hemp (formerly a Schedule I drug like its close cousin, marijuana), opened the gates for mass hemp production—well, almost. those with THC levels above 0.3%).

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 27, 2019

They met in Kampala before they issued a certificate of compliance to Industrial Globus Uganda Ltd covering (August 6, 2019 – August 5, 2020.). Oil Risin contain Dronabinol for making Marinol and syndros capsules and CBD enriched creams for various skin disorders.

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Cannabis Law Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Cannabis cultivation and processing are rapidly-growing industries, as hemp and both recreational and medical marijuana products are being legalized across the country. Grow operations generate agricultural waste that must be managed and disposed of as a regulated or scheduled substance (e.g., Danielle M. Hazeltine , Patrick J.

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Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Tam Tams is grown and processed at ROSE’s Québec-based, Health Canada-licensed 55,000 square-foot Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA), purpose-built facility in Huntingdon , which was commissioned in 2020. We refer to such forward-looking statements and forward-looking information collectively as “ forward-looking statements”. .

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Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Today’s cannabis industry encompasses the growth, processing, distribution, and other ancillary services related to both hemp and marijuana. While hemp and marijuana are both derived from the plant Cannabis sativa L, they are legally distinguished on both a federal and state level by their THC content.

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Canna Law Blog

MAY 22, 2019

” SB 5318 “Reforming the compliance and enforcement provisions for marijuana licensees.” This bill is fairly comprehensive but in a nutshell, SB 5318 forces the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board (“LCB”) to shift its focus from adversarial enforcement to compliance. This includes laboratory accreditation.

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Cannabis Law Report

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It has been two years since California began licensing yet operators still struggle with compliance and are all still de facto, breaking one law or another. The End of the Collective Era. This also served as the end of the collective defense for those criminally charged with operating a cannabis business without a license. .

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 2, 2020

to my knowledge, there are no state-governed collection programs built into medical cannabis policy, compliance, legal or tax frameworks, or end user means of disposal. In future years, the state could link together the Hemp and Cannabis divisions which currently operate separately under the Florida Department of Agriculture purview.

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 20, 2019

Ricardo Lara, Insurance Commissioner; Lori Ajax, Chief, Bureau of Cannabis Control; Christina Dempsey, Manager, California Department of Public Health; Nicolas Maduros, Director, California Department of Tax and Fee Administration; and Richard Parrott, Director, California Department of Food and Agriculture.

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 5, 2019

In Italy the cultivation and the industrial use of hemp has a long tradition and recent changes in law have led to a revival. Traditional cultivation of hemp in Italy . The cultivation and industrial use of cannabis sativa L. (“ hemp “), a particular genus of cannabis, has a long tradition in Italy. Hemp is back.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 20, 2019

Nevada law and California bill propose regulations relating to industrial hemp products, including CBD. Alabama recently legalized hemp cultivation and has already issued more than 180 hemp cultivation licenses under its new Industrial Hemp Research Pilot Program. Arizona enacted S.B. Nevada enacted A.B.

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

Brian Cusack Managing Director Dr. Hemp Me writes, “The issue of legalisation of cannabis and its derived products has been under discussion for decades in Italy. Right after medical cannabis was legalised, Italy sought to become one of the world’s leading producers of industrial hemp. of THC, is considered as hemp.

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Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Dayna Stein closes with a powerful statement: “ Our business is truly about community building and taking collective action.”. Then there’s the bursting cannabis industry, filled with all its technology and compliance –yet void of any measurable reduction in the collective carbon footprint. Terrapin Care Station.

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SpeedWeed

MARCH 8, 2021

As a result of the 2018 Farm Bill, hemp crops in the U.S. Canadian producers, in other words, were producing what is known as GACP (or good agricultural and cultivation practices) to Canadian, not German spec. are being brought more or less to a national standard as well as national regulations. But that is just the tip of the iceberg.

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Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

These are luscious hemp crops. They are both passionate about Ireland’s rural community and what cannabidiol and hemp can do for the market. By transforming rural Ireland from a traditional industry of meat and dairy products to a more sustainable and profitable mass hemp production industry, the economy will thrive.

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Cannabis Law Report

DECEMBER 22, 2019

The Beyond Compliant name comes from the language of Prop 64, which requires cannabis farmers to be “on the pathway to compliance” in abiding by the state’s new environmental regulations governing marijuana cultivation.” Solutions to reduce our collective U.S. SUSTAINABILITY SOLUTIONS IN 2019.

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 26, 2019

This cleared the pathway for the outright legality of industrial hemp; meaning that it should no longer be considered a controlled substance. How does one navigate these choppy waters in a global industrial hemp economy? A Note From Robert Hoban. On December 20, 2018, President Donald Trump signed the 2018 Farm Bill into law.

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SpeedWeed

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

In the latest episode of the Cannacurio Podcast from Cannabiz Media, my co-host, Amanda Guerrero, and I discuss speak with Lews Koski, Chief Operating Officer of Metrc , a leading seed-to-sale track-and-trace technology company for the cannabis and hemp industries. But it’s a heavy agricultural area here in Florida. Lewis Koski: Yeah.

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Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

We got 51 hemp-derived Delta-8 THC products tested by an independent lab, and found high levels of Delta-9 THC in most of them. We wanted to investigate, so after collecting samples from online stores and brick-and-mortar smoke shops, we commissioned FESA Labs to perform independent testing on 51 delta-8 products. This is a massive 77.2

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