Canna Law Blog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Until recently, CBD resided in a legal penumbra where hemp was still scheduled on the federal Controlled Substances Act and could not be cultivated without a permit from the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”). Now though, it sounds like FDA is serious about CBD regulations in the context of both food and supplements.

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MJ Business Attorneys

MAY 29, 2018

Murphy had a number of marijuana law reform scholars as amici (impartial, voluntary advisors) in the case, and the reason is because the holding in Murphy directly impacts marijuana legalization. Murphy holds that state-law repeals are not pre-emptible.

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SpeedWeed

MARCH 11, 2021

Yet, despite its growing popularity, the legality of Delta-8 THC, including that of Delta-8 THC products, remains murky. Federal Legal Framework. This chemical conversion is at the root of the legal confusion. State Legal Frameworks. This blog post provides a broad, 30,000-foot view on this issue. Delta-8 THC.

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Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Especially after passage of the 2018 Farm Bill, which clarifies and affirms that hemp – including hemp-derived cannabinoids are lawful — there is confusion as to why edible CBD products would be the subject of enforcement actions and why state and local health departments would even care in the first place.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 26, 2021

Cannabis and the Law. Marketed as a legal way to get stoned, Delta-8 products have been hitting the shelves of gas stations and smoke shops nationwide. But how can a product that purportedly gets users high escape federal and state regulation? Is Delta-8 legal under federal law? Is Delta-8 legal under state law?

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SMPL

AUGUST 14, 2019

Though ABA specified that it was not taking a position on marijuana legalization generally, it recognized that conflicting federal and state cannabis policies are untenable and have created complications for cannabis businesses operating in compliance with state law.

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Cannabis Law Report

MAY 1, 2019

Users can search for and review cannabis dispensaries, brands, strains, delivery services, and a host of other cannabis or cannabis-related products and services in states in which cannabis has been legalized for medical or recreational use. 5 The CBCC is “having internal discussions about what the appropriate next steps are.”

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Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The companies are advertising it as a legal way to get high, touting medical benefits and generally making big promises about what they can deliver, but an investigation from the US Cannabis Council has found illegal levels of delta-9 THC in products for sale around the country. The Legality of Delta-8 THC. What Needs to be Done?

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Cannabis Law Report

JANUARY 30, 2019

To expand the number of manufacturers, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) submitted a notice in the Federal Register on August 11, 2016, soliciting applications for licenses to manufacture marijuana for research purposes. As I have said, however, I do not support the wholesale legalization of marijuana. Hearing Tr.

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Canna Law Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Remember that a felony conviction, at either the state or federal level, results in a 10-year ban from participating in the legal hemp industry, unless a person was lawfully growing hemp under the 2014 Farm Bill before December 20, 2018. Labs that test cannabis for THC levels must be registered with the DEA. Because 0.3%

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Canna Law Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (“ 2018 Farm Bill ”) legalized hemp by removing the crop and its derivatives from the definition of marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) and by providing a detailed framework for the cultivation of hemp. Today we turn to North Carolina. For now, we just have guidance documents.

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Cannabis Law Report

JANUARY 13, 2022

In The Weeds welcomes the new year, as well as a number of new cannabis laws and policies taking effect around the country in 2022. Below is a list of state law updates to look forward to this year. This DEA guidance and the Kansas opinion both suggest legality for some hemp-derived delta-8 products under the 0.3

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Canna Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Many people in the cannabis industry are convinced that this HHS recommendation to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) means that the DEA will undertake this rescheduling (and fairly quickly, too–which would be a huge departure from its refusal to reschedule back in 2016). if the plant is moved to Schedule III.

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CannaMD

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Either way, it’s important you stay up to date with Florida’s rapidly evolving legal landscape: Can you use medical marijuana at work? Do different states recognize Florida medical cards? What law legalized medical marijuana in Florida? What is the legal difference between cannabis and low-THC cannabis?

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Cannabis Law Report

MAY 28, 2022

Congress should either legalize cannabis or stop deputizing banks as drug enforcement investigators. Although 18 states have fully legalized, cannabis is still a sticky issue for banks and other financial institutions because it remains illegal at the federal level. The State of Banking.

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Canna Law Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Generally speaking, federal law considers psychedelics to be as illegal and as dangerous as heroin and makes even the simple act of researching psychedelics extremely difficult. It may therefore come as a surprise that there is a vast body of legal exemptions to the CSA for users of psychedelics who do so for religious purposes.

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Cannabis Law Report

APRIL 24, 2019

CPA’s “ PUBLISHER: CANNABIS LAW REPORT. Federal Legalization – Then What? Let’s think through a couple of scenarios and have a peek at the landscape in a post-legalization world. Let’s begin with the following: STATES Act Becomes Law. Federal Legalization – Then What?

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 21, 2019

New laws and bills are constantly being passed that create a great deal of confusion in the cannabis world. Is CBD legal in all 50 states? Is it legal in the federal government? In this article I’m going to update you on the legal status of CBD , and only CBD, in the United States. What is CBD? South Dakota.

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Canna Law Blog

AUGUST 2, 2020

State legal cannabis businesses are used to the specter of the federal government in the rear view mirrors of their lives and businesses. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that cannabis remains federally illegal. And that is what made last week’s new so interesting.

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Canna Law Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

I feel like we’re living in an upside down world when it comes to cannabis legalization at the federal level. To add to the feeling we may be living in the Twilight Zone, a Republican Congresswoman, Nancy Mace , out of South Carolina, just introduced a cannabis legalization bill called the States Reform Act (“SRA”).

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NewsMunchies

DECEMBER 22, 2021

federal law as a Schedule 1 drug puts us far behind our international partners and scientific competitors, including the U.K., The commercialization of cannabis is here but federal legalization has not yet come to our shores. One statistic that has changed in the past ten years is public support for cannabis legalization.

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 25, 2019

At the present time, state medical and recreational legalization have no impact on federal drug control laws. Although many states have chosen to legalize medical marijuana and four have legalized recreational use, such state actions continue to conflict with federal law. Emphasis added).

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MJ Business Attorneys

DECEMBER 27, 2018

The long-anticipated 2018 Farm Bill finally made its way to the President’s desk and Trump made hemp fans ecstatic when he signed it into law on December 20. With a provision legalizing the cultivation and distribution of hemp on the federal level, many are left wondering what the Act means for cannabis industry operators.

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MJ Business Attorneys

MAY 23, 2018

And even further, Congress, since 2014 has prevented the Department of Justice from interfering with state medical marijuana laws, essentially creating conflict within the federal government itself. Uniformity of the states was not the Founder’s purpose in creating the Constitution. Now is the time to redouble our efforts.”

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