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After Two Years Of Work, USDA Publishes National Hemp Rule

THE FINAL RULE, WHICH TAKES EFFECT ON MARCH 22, SETS A HIGHER THC LIMIT — 1% — FOR DETERMINING WHEN PLANTS MUST BE DESTROYED AND MAKES IT EASIER TO DISPOSE OF THEM. Two years after the 2018 farm bill legalized…

Federal Policy on Hemp CBD Is Taking Shape: What Needs to Be Addressed?

By Daniel Shortt, Attorney @ Harris Bricken This is the first post in a two-part series. Last week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) submitted a CBD enforcement policy to the White House. We do not yet have the text…

Hemp-Derived THC Products: Legal or Loophole?

By Ian A. Stewart, Devon Mills and Neil Willner Hemp-derived CBD products have exploded onto the market since Congress removed hemp from the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) in the 2018 Farm Bill. Now, new hemp-derived products are emerging that contain…

Hemp Regulations Create Compliance Challenges

On October 31, 2019, The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) unveiled the interim final rule for its U.S. Domestic Hemp Production Program, and may now pro- ceed with review and approval of state and tribal hemp plans. e release…

Reading the Tea Leaves: Looking at the History of Hemp and CBD to Predict the Future

By Justin Walsh[1] It’s an exciting time to be in hemp and CBD! I have attended and spoken at several conferences over the last year. I have been in places as diverse as Seattle, Denver, Dallas, and Orlando. The products…

Flexibility for the states is key to hemp’s future says state ag officials

PRESS RELEASE Arlington, VA, January 29, 2020 Today, the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) submitted final comments to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) on the Establishment of a Domestic Hemp Production Program…

New Jersey Leads Nation in Hemp Program Approval and Launch

Jersey got there first! Leapfrogging over 16 other states with more established hemp programs, on December 27, 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) approved New Jersey’s proposed hemp growing, processing and selling regulations, including Cannabidol (“CBD”), starting in 2020.…

Hemp Game Changer: USDA Rulemaking Shapes Future for California Hemp Market

The California hemp industry received welcome news recently when the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its much-anticipated interim final rule for hemp production, a critical step toward implementing the 2018 Federal Farm Bill and a key development for states…

October 2019 Spot Market Update

Spot Market Updates: The biomass market is heating up with regard to frequency of transactions as producers harvest fresh biomass and it enters the market. Prices of biomass across the three PanXchange benchmarks have continued to transact in a similar…

Hemp Regulation: USDA Struggles with Drafting THC Testing Rules

By Nathalie Bougenies, Attorney at Harris Bricken Hemp stakeholders have been eagerly waiting for the release of rules and regulations by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (“USDA”). Although the 2018 Farm Bill removed the hemp and its derivatives from the…

Four Important Considerations for Any Hemp CBD Company

By Griffen Thorne, Attorney @ Harris Bricken State governments and the federal Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) take wildly different approaches when it comes to Hemp-derived cannabidiol (“Hemp CBD”), and for the most part, the ball is still in the…

Another Shot in the Arm for Legalization? New Laws Expanding Hemp Production Stepping Up the Discussion

December 13, 2017
David Hodes
Compliance and Regulations, Hemp Business Executive, Hemp Policy & Legal
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What’s that? Hemp making a comeback? An illegal Substance 1 drug? Has the Drug Enforcement Administration gone soft on cannabis crime? No, that’s not likely. But when it comes to hemp, and medicinal CBD derived from hemp, all of which…