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

Canna Law Blog

Denying small, compliant hemp businesses access to SBA capital will only accelerate that trend, pushing out mom-and-pop operators and concentrating industry control in the hands of a few. Product Type Specifically, whether the products are topical or intended for topical application or ingestion.

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The Key Differences Between CBD and THC You Need to Know

United Patients Group

Hemp-derived CBD must have a THC concentration of 0.3 CBD is available in many forms, including gels, gummies , oils, supplements, concentrates, and more. However, the DEA and FDA still consider CBD a drug regulated under the Schedule I classification. percent or less to be legally sold.

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Hemp and CBD: Submit Your Comments on USDA Interim Hemp Rules By December 30

Canna Law Blog

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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Studies Dispel the Myth That Cannabis is a Performance Enhancing Drug

Veriheal

Following the recent news of Texan sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson returning a positive test for cannabis, a debate has erupted on the topic of cannabis as a performance-enhancing drug – can the plant enhance agility, strength, and/or speed? Fast forward to 2019 and the DEA unveiled eagerly anticipated plans for cannabis research.

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Hey Miami, We Have Delta8

LifeCannMD

As a reaction to this, researchers have devised the ability to concentrate the Delta 8-THC content in Hemp while at the same time minimizing the Delta 9-THC content – thus keeping it under the legal limit. It occurs in cannabis in small concentrations. Delta-8-THC is an analog of THC and has a similar molecular structure.

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The Company Behind Arizona Cannabis Products Are as Important as the Smoke

Kind Meds (Cannabis Education Blog)

But what’s behind the cannabis confections, concentrates, topicals, and sweet flowers that we’ve come to enjoy? Until the FDA and DEA change the way they classify marijuana, consumers, big cannabis business and its shareholders and stockholders are somewhat at their mercy. Cannabis consumers aren’t one in the same. It depends.

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

Cannabis Law Report

Accordingly, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) no longer has any claim to interfere with the interstate commerce of hemp products, so as long as the THC level is at or below 0.3%. While the DEA is now officially out of the hemp regulation business, the U.S. The FDA’s position on CBD is unsettled and unsupported by law.