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Thoughts on THCA, Interstate Sales…. and Oregon

Canna Law Blog

Griffen’s article is just one of many parsing the language of the 2018 Farm Bill and a 2023 DEA letter on the topic. See also: “ THCA and the DEA: Rod Breaks Down the Latest News ” from Rod Kight, an another attorney prominent in the space. I would say: “Someone over at DEA wrote a letter last year indicating that it’s not.

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Intoxicating Hemp Product Laws are More Complicated Than They Seem

Canna Law Blog

And why didn’t it address the manufacture or sale of intoxicating hemp products? ” Rod referred to Bio Gen LLC v. When Congress passed the 2018 Farm Bill, did it intend to legalize intoxicating hemp products? If it did, why didn’t it just legalize marijuana? These issues are admittedly very complicated. delta-9 THC.

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Intoxicating Hemp Product Laws are More Complicated Than They Seem

Canna Law Blog

And why didn’t it address the manufacture or sale of intoxicating hemp products? ” Rod referred to Bio Gen LLC v. When Congress passed the 2018 Farm Bill, did it intend to legalize intoxicating hemp products? If it did, why didn’t it just legalize marijuana? These issues are admittedly very complicated. delta-9 THC.

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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. In October, Senator Mitch McConnell directed the DEA to figure out how to distinguish hemp from marijuana. Note that McConnell still refers to marijuana as hemp’s “illicit cousin.”

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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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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. . 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.

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Memo to Congress: Fix the Farm Bill

Project CBD

and any part of that plant, including the seeds thereof and all derivatives , extracts, cannabinoids, isomers, acids, salts, and salts of isomers, whether growing or not , with a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of not more than 0.3 Whether growing or not” is being misconstrued to mean that the 0.3