The Joint Blog

JUNE 4, 2021

Believe it or not, you actually need a license to do meaningful research on marijuana due to the fact that the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has limited its access. The DEA feels that marijuana, being a schedule I drug, could be misused like other drugs within that category and could be dangerous.

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 16, 2019

The cap on dispensaries, now set at 35 for each operator, was included in a 2017 state law carrying out a constitutional amendment that broadly legalized medical marijuana in Florida. Health officials on Monday agreed to allow Alpha Foliage, which operates as Surterra, to open six more dispensaries.

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Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

6 However, marijuana vaping did significantly increase between 2017 and 2018, mirroring trends in youth tobacco use. 7 While the lifetime use remains relatively stable for this cohort, from 2015-2017, past year and past month use increased 2.7% and 2.3%, respectively. and 2.3%, respectively. Cannabis sativa with less than 0.3%

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Cannabis Law Report

MAY 1, 2019

A user located in Los Angeles could see listings for around 100 area storefronts, and ads for “deals nearby” on cannabis flower, extract, edibles, and other products. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) arrested 30,476 suspects for federal drug offenses while state and local law enforcement arrested 1,328,457 suspects for drug offenses.”).

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Canna Law Blog

AUGUST 24, 2020

On Friday, the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) released an Interim Final Rule (the “ Rule ”) that, as we discussed , threatens the hemp industry by treating partially processed hemp extract not intended for consumption (also known as “intermediary hemp”) as a Schedule I controlled substance.

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Cannabis Law Report

JULY 12, 2019

However, there are indications from studies done with cannabidiol-rich cannabis extracts in Israel that indicate that less side effects (46%) are achieved with a natural cannabis plant extract containing a 20:1 ratio of CBD to THC. The CBD-rich extract group had a lower effective dose on average, 6.1

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Canna Law Blog

JULY 26, 2023

This USDA study , figure 2, page 4, shows states reporting nearly 30,000 total hemp acres “licensed or approved” for cultivation in 2017. The study with 2017 data contains a disclaimer that “not all States reported data on the same basis.” Also, the 2017 data includes acreage for “approved” and not exclusively “cultivated”, hemp.

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CannaMD

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

This stems from the fact that despite the ongoing legalization of both recreational and medical marijuana at the state level, cannabis is still classified as a Schedule I substance by the DEA, along with substances such as heroin, cocaine, opioids and methamphetamine.

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SpeedWeed

JULY 28, 2021

The new law allows manufacturers to produce oils, extracts, textiles or food containing non-psychoactive cannabis—the country’s relative equivalent to hemp—as long as products have a biomass containing less than one percent of THC. “The

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CannaMD

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

A special legislative session in June 2017 passed Senate Bill 8A , the Medical Use of Marijuana Act , to implement rules for making medical marijuana available to Floridians. In practice, the chances of feds or the DEA sitting at the border waiting to catch someone – that’s just not happening. In practice, however, it’s very ambiguous.

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WeedAdvisor

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Second, CBD itself has nothing to do with these incidents, as the products in question had no CBD extract in them: “Some operators are cashing in on the CBD craze by substituting cheap and illegal synthetic marijuana for natural CBD in vapes and edibles such as gummy bears…”. Large-Scale Mislabeling. . However, vapes are not included.

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Cannabis Law Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Both hemp and marijuana can be used to create CBD extracts, but hemp has a higher concentration of the compound. A 2017 study published in ACS Omega by Jiries Meehan-Atrash, Wentai Luo and Robert M. Hemp, on the other hand, contains 0.3% or less THC, meaning it doesn’t cause the same psychoactive effects.

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