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

Canna Law Blog

Last week the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued a bad interim hemp rule. My colleague Nathalie Bougenies wrote about how this interim rule could have devastating impacts on the burgeoning hemp-derived delta-8 THC industry. The DEA is aware of the concerns of the CBD industry, and is evaluating policy options,” he told L.A.

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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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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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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? That case is widely misquoted as having declared delta-8 THC legal nationwide. delta-9 THC. 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?

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Patenting Cannabis Genes: Three Ways To Protect New Cultivars

Canna Law Blog

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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CBD Oracle Lab Study Shows Some Delta-8 Products Are 7700% Over the Legal Delta-9 THC Limit

Cannabis Law Report

We got 51 hemp-derived Delta-8 THC products tested by an independent lab, and found high levels of Delta-9 THC in most of them. Customers looking for a “weed light” experience could be getting something decidedly heavy , with delta-9 THC levels well beyond the legal limit and very little in the way of testing for impurities.

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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? That case is widely misquoted as having declared delta-8 THC legal nationwide. delta-9 THC. 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?

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