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Health Canada: Backgrounder: Final regulations on new cannabis products

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Health Canada has released the amendments to the Cannabis Regulations to control the legal production and sale of edible cannabis, cannabis extracts, and cannabis topicals. Requiring child-resistant and plain packaging for edible cannabis to lower the risk of accidental consumption and make packages less appealing to young persons.

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Guest Post: The Legal Status of CBD Oil in Italy

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Products containing the non-psychoactive CBD compound, like oil, vapes, extracts etc. While the Ministries of Health and Justice awarded penalties for the possession, sale and consumption of cannabis prior to 2013, medical cannabis was legalised and made available to patients from 2013 onwards. is illegal in Italy.

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U.S. Court of Appeals Weighs in on Hemp-Derived Delta-8 THC Classification Cannabis Practice Update

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Relying on the plain language of the statute, the Ninth Circuit rejected arguments that Delta-8 THC was synthetic and illegal under DEA’s interpretation, or that substances legalized under the 2018 Farm Bill had to be for industrial use and not human consumption. plant, it is not synthetic. FOR MORE INFORMATION. 202.263.4128. 202.263.4145.

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Half-Baked: Edibles, Beverages and New Cannabis Products to Be Legalized and Regulated in 2019

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Additionally, the Regulations include restrictions on the use of sugars, sweeteners or colours in cannabis extracts, such as oil for vaping. The Regulations provide that a holder of a processing license cannot produce, package or store cannabis in the same building as non-cannabis food destined for public consumption.

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Hemp-CBD Across State Lines: Massachusetts

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A grower is a person who cultivates Industrial Hemp, and a processor converts Industrial Hemp into a marketable form through extraction or manufacturing. MDAR’s FAQs also state that Massachusetts was “waiting for additional guidance from USDA before developing a plan to ensure compliance with the 2018 Farm Bill[.]”

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Guest Post – Europe: How The Novel Food Authorisation Is Affecting the CBD Oil Industry

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In other words, we can say that Novel foods are those foods which don’t have a proper and significant history of consumption. This is because the CBD industry was unable to show a proper consumption of their products in the history of the EU. And the same truly doesn’t have any proper consumption history before 1997.

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Back to the BRC: “The ability to tax cannabis is one of the main political reasons given to support recreational legalization. A successful tax system will need to raise money to pay for increased education, public health and enforcement costs associated with marijuana cultivation and use.”

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Tax and regulatory compliance should be simple to execute and formulated in a way that makes compliance desirable to market participants.” [1]. extraction for the production of vaping cartridges and edibles]. We have commented at length in recent articles with our suggestions to correct both aspects.