Canna Law Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The hemp industry is up in arms over the USDA’s interim rules establishing a domestic hemp program. 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. 3% Total THC. Your Comments Matter.

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Otherside Farms

JANUARY 10, 2021

This was part of their “Hemp for Victory Program.” However, in 2004, there was a lawsuit against the Hemp Industries Association and the DEA. Then in 2014, Obama signed the Farm Bill, which would then allow pilot programs for growing hemp, but it still wasn’t supposed to be used commercially.

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Otherside Farms

JANUARY 7, 2021

This was part of their “Hemp for Victory Program.” However, in 2004, there was a lawsuit against the Hemp Industries Association and the DEA. Then in 2014, Obama signed the Farm Bill, which would then allow pilot programs for growing hemp, but it still wasn’t supposed to be used commercially.

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Canna Law Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The North Carolina Department of Agriculture (“NCDA”) provides a useful summary of the state’s law regarding hemp cultivation: Hemp production has been legalized in North Carolina, but only as part of the state’s pilot program as allowed under federal law. The Commission’s letter is worth reading.

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Canna Law Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Although certain states have identified hemp seed that would work well in their specific geographical areas, the USDA has decided not to include a seed certification program in the rules. These USDA-approved labs would need to comply with the USDA’s ‘‘Laboratory Approval Program” requirements, which mandate that labs be ISO 17025 accredited.

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CannaMD

AUGUST 8, 2020

Drugs, substances, and certain chemicals used to make drugs are classified into five categories (known as schedules ) depending on the Department of Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)’s definition of the drug’s acceptable medical use and abuse/dependency potential. In 1970, the U.S. This new bill allows broad hemp cultivation.

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Cannabis Law Report

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Samples must be taken to a DEA-registered laboratory for THC testing. This does not apply to a felony for lawfully growing hemp under the 2014 Farm Bill. States are expected to continuing operating pilot programs established under the 2014 Farm Bill (after reaching compliance with the IFR). THC on a dry weight basis.

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The Herb Collective

JUNE 25, 2018

From 1990-2014, there were 60 peer-reviewed studies on medical marijuana. Between 2008 and 2014 the National Institutes of Health spent $1.4 "Every year, about 98% of all of the grass removed by the DEA's "Domestic Cannabis Eradication/Suppression Program" is really hemp." billion in 2014.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 28, 2021

The DEA, which enforces the CSA, has indicated that it may consider delta-8 derived from hemp to be a “synthetically derived tetrahydrocannabinol” which still belongs on Schedule I of the CSA. percent on a dry weight basis.” ” See 7 U.S.C. 1, 2022). See 2021 NY S.B. 854, §§90-111.

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Cannabis Law Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Department of Agriculture (USDA), not the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). Until the regulatory framework of the 2018 Farm Bill is fully implemented, hemp will remain governed under the existing 2014 Farm Bill and the rules of its corresponding state pilot programs. The 2018 Farm Bill means that hemp will be regulated by the U.S.

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CannaMD

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

MORE DETAILS: On June 16, 2014, Florida became the 22nd state to legalize (at least partial) access to medical marijuana when Governor Rick Scott signed the Compassionate Medical Cannabis Act of 2014. In practice, the chances of feds or the DEA sitting at the border waiting to catch someone – that’s just not happening.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 4, 2021

In 1996, California legalized medical cannabis yet today, with 37 US States allowing for medical cannabis sales, we still do not have an overall comprehensive cannabis/cannabinoid education program. As a graduate student, he received the IPMI Richard Rubin Memorial Scholarship in 2014 for his research in precious metals.

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Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Due to the Schedule I classification by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), researchers seeking to investigate health effects associated with cannabis must follow a regimented application process. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Hemp Production Program, removing hemp from the Controlled Substances Act. Hemp production program.

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CannaMD

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

As such, universities such as McMaster University and McGill University , among others, have built dedicated and comprehensive research programs. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) announced that it will evaluate 37 additional grower applications. The DEA would then be the exclusive distributor. Furthermore, since 2014, the U.S.

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Cannabis Law Report

MAY 1, 2019

29 The Department of Justice alleged that Google had “allow[ed] online Canadian pharmacies to place advertisements through its AdWords program targeting consumers in the United States” and that Google specifically assisted the pharmacies in “optimizing their AdWords advertisements, and improving the effectiveness of their websites.”

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Canna Law Blog

APRIL 25, 2019

Accordingly, the USDA held that the DEA “no longer has authority to require hemp seed permits for import purposes.”. According to the Montana senator, the DEA was blocking Montana farmers from importing hemp seeds. The agency further explained that the statement aimed to provide assistance to U.S.

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Cannabis Law Report

APRIL 8, 2022

Later that year, Doblin sued the DEA for the first time. submitted his first DEA application to manufacture marijuana for use in medical research. The MDMA Therapy Training Program was created to train the next generation of psychedelic therapists. Lyle Craker, Ph.D., MAPS Founder Rick Doblin, Ph.D.,

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 9, 2021

Since May 2014, 41 states have enacted Right to Try laws. Drug Enforcement Agency (“DEA”). Briefing is still under way, with the DEA’s responsive brief submitted on June 25, 2021, and the petitioners’ reply due July 16, 2021. The federal government and most of the states in the U.S. have also passed “Right to Try” laws.

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Cannabis Law Report

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Speakers will describe how the DEA has handled these granted exemptions, such as filing a permit to import sacrament from another country and bringing back sacrament and going through customs. The panel will also address the DEA’s guidelines for applying for an exemption, and the potential costs, risks, and rewards of going ‘above ground’.

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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”).

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Canna Law Blog

AUGUST 30, 2020

To be fair, the USDA did issue an opinion in mid-2019 that stated that states/tribes could not prohibit the interstate transport of hemp produced under the 2014 Farm Bill. To add yet another layer of complexity, states that are implementing hemp programs may impose vastly different requirements on hemp transporters.

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Cannabis Law Report

APRIL 21, 2022

MDMA is a promising psychedelic compound, currently placed by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, that has been produced for legal research in small batches by certified laboratories.

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Cannabis Law Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The second argument is based on a DEA interim final rule on the topic of synthetic THC. Products containing delta-8 THC derived from hemp should be regulated by a state’s hemp program provided that they contain no more than the legal limit of delta-9 THC (currently 0.3%). Freeman, D., Godlewska, B., Cornish, R., Williams, J.,

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Canna Law Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In 2014, Blumenauer boosted the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment, now known as the Blumenauer amendment , which prohibits the Department of Justice from spending funds to interfere with state medical cannabis laws. More recently, Blumenauer continues to press DEA to increase transparency  in the scheduling review process.

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MJ Business Attorneys

DECEMBER 27, 2018

If a state was already a part of the pilot program governed by the 2014 Agricultural Act, that is not enough. The 2014 Act is out, and the prior authorizations went with it.

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SpeedWeed

APRIL 1, 2021

Fried remembers the debate, featuring a then- High Times editor and a DEA agent, marking the first substantive cannabis conversation during her time at school. . Since 2014, the state has made incremental progress, first legalizing CBD oil, then expanding its medical program in 2016.

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Cannabis Law Report

MARCH 25, 2019

The DEA has made previous requests–in 2001 and 2006–to the FDA for an evaluation of marijuana. But DEA regulators determined after both of those reviews that marijuana should remain a Schedule I substance. ii] See How to reschedule marijuana, and why it’s unlikely anytime soon , The Brookings Institution [2015].

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 30, 2019

The informed patients, cannabis industry employees, and clinicians find it equally difficult to keep updated on Florida’s latest medical marijuana program news and changes. . Cannabis is not a “gateway” drug, according to the ASA and the DEA’s own statements cited in the August 2016 U.S. Federal Register. .

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The Joint Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

According to a report from Marijuana Moment, President Trump has proposed ending an existing policy that protects state medical marijuana programs from Justice Department interference. through the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program, the document states. through regulations and guidance.”. “In

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SMPL

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

President Trump proposed ending an existing policy that protects state medical marijuana programs from Justice Department interference as part of his fiscal year 2021 budget plan released on Monday. through the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program, the document states. through regulations and guidance.”. “In

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SpeedWeed

DECEMBER 28, 2018

In August, Constellation Brands (brewers of Corona beer) spent $4 billion to massively up their stake in Canopy Growth, which in 2014 became the first publicly traded cannabis company in North America, and now lists on both the New York Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange. Buzz: Cannabis Equity Programs Expand Opportunities.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 14, 2021

The proposed plan would also establish a regulatory framework for state-legal cannabis businesses, expunge non-violent cannabis convictions, and create programs to support small and minority-owned cannabis businesses while reinvesting resources in the communities that have been disproportionately harmed by prohibition.

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