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The DEA Does Not Want You To Worry About Its New Hemp Rule. Don’t Take the Bait!

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Last week the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued a bad interim hemp rule. North Carolina attorney Rod Kight raised these concerns as well and he and I both spoke to Kyle Jaeger of Marijuana Moment about why we think are concerned about the DEA’s interim hemp rule. Weekly in a phone interview.

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Thoughts on THCA, Interstate Sales…. and Oregon

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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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Oregon’s Interstate Commerce Bill for Marijuana Seeds and Intoxicating Hemp Products

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Most interestingly, the reconstituted SB 353 would allow OLCC licensees to export intoxicating products that fall under the federal definition of hemp, along with marijuana seeds. All very interesting stuff, especially coming from the first state to ban the sale of artificially derived cannabinoids (with limited exceptions).

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Patenting Cannabis Genes: Three Ways To Protect New Cultivars

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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….” As they do so, more and more are looking for strategies to protect those investments. Plant patents for cannabis genes.

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Intoxicating Hemp Product Laws are More Complicated Than They Seem

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And why didn’t it address the manufacture or sale of intoxicating hemp products? 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? I think the answer to all of these questions is clearly “no.” delta-9 THC. delta-9 THC.

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Intoxicating Hemp Product Laws are More Complicated Than They Seem

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And why didn’t it address the manufacture or sale of intoxicating hemp products? 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? I think the answer to all of these questions is clearly “no.” delta-9 THC. delta-9 THC.

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Washington Works to Remove Obstacles to 2019 Hemp Crop

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Lawmakers in Olympia are determined that 2019 will be better — Hector Castro, Director of Communications for the Washington State Department of Agriculture recently stated, “It makes sense to assist farmers to get seeds in the ground this season.”. A legislative fix is necessary for hemp-derived CBD sales and for out-of-state hemp export.

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