Canna Law Blog

JUNE 26, 2024

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) seems happy to respond to public and private parties inquiring about the control status of various substances. DEA answers some of these inquiries more quickly than others, and the response letters are usually short and to the point. What are the legal ramifications of DEA writing these things?”

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Canna Law Blog

MAY 29, 2024

For years, people have tried to decipher the incredibly poorly worded (I can’t stress this enough) language in the 2018 Farm Bill and what it means for intoxicating hemp products like THCA products or delta-8. In the last week or so, there’s been a lot of bad news for the intoxicating hemp products industry.

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Canna Law Blog

JULY 26, 2023

He said: “licensed acres in hemp are at pre-farm bill levels.” Before the 2018 Farm Bill, only a few states ran limited “research” pilot programs for hemp. But, take a look: The USDA 2022 National Hemp Report , at page 1, indicates that all industrial hemp “in the open” totaled 28,314 acres. Could that be true?

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Canna Law Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

On March 7, Oregon law makers passed Senate Bill 1564 ( SB 1564 ) which empowers counties to impose hemp moratoriums within their jurisdictions. This post briefly goes over the impetus behind this new law and how it will impact Oregon’s hemp industry. Reasons behind the SB 1564 hemp moratoriums. In 2020, the U.S.

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Canna Law Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

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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Canna Law Blog

APRIL 24, 2023

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. OLCC is also pushing SB 353, silently, as introducing better regulated, properly tested, and safely packaged products to the hemp ingestibles market.

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Canna Law Blog

JULY 24, 2023

REGISTER HERE If you haven’t already registered, please join us on July 25, 2023 at 10am PST for a free webinar on U.S. Import and Export of Marijuana, Hemp, and Paraphernalia. These cannabis products may include: marijuana flower marijuana seeds hemp flower hemp seeds finished cannabis products cannabis “paraphernalia.”

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Canna Law Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

In a post on August 3, 2023, hemp lawyer Rod Kight analyzed new cannabinoid H4 CBD – one I’d never stumbled into before. And it is not on the CSA (the DEA tried and then backed off efforts to schedule it in 2016). Take this FDA press release from April 2023 for example: On Wednesday the U.S.

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Canna Law Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

REGISTER HERE Please join us on July 25, 2023 at 10am PST for a free webinar on U.S. Import and Export of Marijuana, Hemp and Paraphernalia. These cannabis products may include: marijuana flower marijuana seeds hemp flower hemp seeds finished cannabis products cannabis “paraphernalia.”

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Canna Law Blog

JULY 14, 2023

On July 5, 2023, the FDA and FTC jointly announced six cease and desist letters to alleged delta-8 product makers. And if it is derived from hemp, it is not independently scheduled – at least if you read the Controlled Substances Act and 2018 Farm Bill literally. You can access the letters here.

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Cannabis Law Report

AUGUST 6, 2021

“We’re continuing to drive cost savings and operational efficiencies across the company, and remain broadly on track to our target of $150 – $200 million in fiscal 2022- fiscal 2023,” added Mike Lee , CFO. “We International and other revenue includes revenue from our international medical business and hemp-derived CBD business.

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Cannabis Law Report

JUNE 1, 2021

Implementation of supply chain optimization well underway with network optimization and complexity reduction initiatives expected to realize our previously stated cost savings of $150 million to $200 million by the end of the first half of FY 2023. hemp (including CBD) products and the scope of any regulations by the U.S.

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Canna Law Blog

JANUARY 8, 2025

cannabis community awaits the resumption of the DEA’s administrative law hearing on rescheduling marijuana later this month, this blog will take a glimpse at the ever-dynamic global landscape of cannabis policy. Phase I, implemented in 2023, legalized cannabis cultivation clubs, home cultivation, and personal possession.

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The Blunt Truth

DECEMBER 22, 2023

And finally, if Puma Clyde sneakers were the epitome of cool when you were growing up, you may be interested in their sneakers made with hemp. UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS Attorney General Merrick Garland and DEA Administrator Anne Milgram received a letter this week from several former United States Attorneys.

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Canna Law Blog

JANUARY 8, 2024

After Biden requested that HHS review the scheduling of marijuana under federal law, the Department recommended to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) that it should reschedule marijuana, down to Schedule III. The HHS recommendation occurred in late August, 2023. I analyzed what a move to Schedule III would generally mean here.

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