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Patenting Cannabis Genes: Three Ways To Protect New Cultivars

Canna Law Blog

In the case of a plant patent, the grant shall include the right to exclude others from asexually reproducing the plant, and from using, offering for sale, or selling the plant so reproduced, or any of its parts….” Utility patents are the most popular flavor of patent and they are the favorite tool of major agricultural genetic companies.

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Cannabis Administration And Opportunity Act: What The Proposed Federal Cannabis Laws Would Mean For Hemp

Cannabis Law Report

THC would be regulated differently than low-THC hemp as “cannabis.” The term “cannabis” is defined in the CAOA so that it excludes hemp. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and FDA. The federal hemp framework was established by the passage of the Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill). Cannabis above 0.3%

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CBD Oracle Lab Study Shows Some Delta-8 Products Are 7700% Over the Legal Delta-9 THC Limit

Cannabis Law Report

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. Customers looking for a “weed light” experience could be getting something decidedly heavy , with delta-9 THC levels well beyond the legal limit and very little in the way of testing for impurities.

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The Year in Weed: 2019 Edition

The Blunt Truth

In the world of hemp, marijuana’s straight-arrow cousin, the Department of Agriculture released guidelines for importing hemp seeds. And low THC cannabis oil was legalized in Kansas , which otherwise has some of the most restrictive laws in the country. See the hearing’s webpage , for the details.

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Empire State Cannabis Update: CCB Makes Progress In Hemp Program & Chair Hints At Adult-Use Timeline

Cannabis Law Report

Similarly, the MRTA requires the CCB “[t]o fix by rule and regulation the standards and requirements of cultivation, processing, packaging, marketing, and sale of. ” The CCB intends to address the sale of such products in the adult-use regulations. no later than six months after the effective date of the MRTA.”

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McGuire Woods: In the Weeds: New Laws for 2022, Kansas Weighs Delta-8, Maine Appeals Dispensary Ruling, Nevada Approves Lounges

Cannabis Law Report

1, Montana permits retail marijuana sales for adults 21 and older. Kansas Attorney General Calls Delta-8 THC a Schedule I Controlled Substance. 2021-4 , warning that the state categorizes many varieties of delta-8 THC as illegal substances under recent amendments to Kansas law. total tetrahydrocannabinols (THC).”.

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US Hemp Roundtable: Statement On The Status of Hemp Derived CBD Under Federal Law

Cannabis Law Report

federal law protects the retail sale of hemp-derived CBD. . It is now deemed an agricultural commodity, no longer able to be classified as a controlled substance, like marijuana. While the DEA is now officially out of the hemp regulation business, the U.S. Jonathan Miller , General Counsel to the U.S.

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