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The FDA’s Stance on Hemp-Derived CBD as a Dietary Supplement (Part 2)
This is the second installment in our series on the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) and hemp-derived CBD (“Hemp-CBD”). Our last post focused on the Drug Exclusion Rule, which essentially states...
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Proposed California Legislation May Allow Hemp CBD in Foods
Keep your fingers crossed for AB 228. On January 17, 2019, California Assembly Member Cecilia M. Aguiar-Curry kept her promise and introduced a piece of hemp legislation, AB 228. This bill is aimed at...
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FREE Webinar February 21: West Coast Hemp CBD
In December 2018, Congress passed the Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018 (better known as the “Farm Bill”). Among other things, the passage of the bill removed industrial hemp from the federal...
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Senators Push for Updates to FDA Regulation of CBD Food Products and Dietary...
With the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill and the proliferation of food products containing CBD, we’ve been writing extensively about how the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and in...
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Oregon’s New Industrial Hemp Rules and the 2018 Farm Bill
Oregon hemp will see a little bit of each in 2019. Last year was a big one for the Oregon industrial hemp program. If you recall, the state legislature enacted House Bill 4089, which provided a much...
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Washington Cannabis: The Proposed Hemp Overhaul is Here
In light of the recent federal legalization of industrial hemp, Washington lawmakers are taking a hard look at the state’s hemp program. Senators Bob Hasegawa (D) of Beacon Hill, Steve Conway (D) of...
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State Crackdowns Against CBD Products Have Begun
Earlier this year, the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) began seizing various cannabidiol (“CBD”) products from store shelves. These enforcement actions reflected the implementation of the...
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Beyond the Crackdown: New York Classifies Hemp-CBD as a Dietary Supplement...
Home of “dietary supplement” CBD. This post is part one of two on how the State of New York is regulating CBD. Last week, New York City’s Department of Health (“DOH”) quarantined a number of edible...
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Beyond the Crackdown: New York Classifies Hemp-CBD as a Dietary Supplement...
Home of “dietary supplement” CBD. This post is part two of two on how New York is regulating CBD. On Monday, I wrote about the New York City Department of Health’s (“DOH”) recent crackdown on Hemp-CBD...
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Exporting CBD Food Just Got Harder: The European Union Makes a Move
We’ve been writing a lot on this blog about the regulation and sale of cannabidiol (“CBD”) products at the state and federal levels. The United States is not the only international actor, however,...
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The Feds Aren’t Done With Cannabis
As more and more states legalize cannabis in some form or another, and as more and more Senators and Representatives introduce legislation that would relax the federal pot laws, it’s important not to...
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Transporting Hemp Across State Lines is Still Risky
Back in September 2018, I wrote about how important it was for hemp businesses to carefully plan the routes they would use to ship hemp and hemp products, including hemp-derived CBD. This is because...
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Free Lunch-Time Webinar TOMORROW: West Coast Hemp-CBD After the Farm Bill
Congress passed the Agricultural Improvement Act of 2018 (better known as the “Farm Bill”) in December 2018 which removed hemp from the federal Controlled Substances Act. This further resulted in...
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Cannabis Awakening: A Matter of Life or Death
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Idaho State Police Are Not Required to Return Seized Hemp (Yet)
Earlier this week, I wrote about how hemp businesses should not yet rely on the 2018 Farm Bill to protect them from their products being seized. This is because although Section 10114 of the 2018 Farm...
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Are CBD-Infused Alcohol Beverages Legal?
The recent wave of crackdowns on cannabidiol (“CBD”)-infused alcohol beverages has further exacerbated public confusion regarding the legal status of the cannabis plant’s non-psychoactive compound....
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West Coast Hemp CBD After the Farm Bill: The Video
In case you missed it, or would like to revisit some of the information, below is the recording from last week’s lunch hour webinar on west coast hemp CBD after the Farm Bill. Stay tuned for future...
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Channeling Anslinger: Cracks in a Crackpot Book About Pot
Alex Berenson, a science fiction author and former New York Times reporter, has written a book that would make Harry Anslinger blush. Anslinger, of course, was the longtime Federal Bureau of Narcotics...
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USDA and FDA Shed Light on Hemp and CBD
On February 27, 2019 both the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) and the United States Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) provided new insights and guidance related to their proposed regulatory...
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The Federal Legality of CBD Smokable Products
In the last few weeks, we have received a growing number of inquiries pertaining to the legality of smokable products infused with cannabidiol derived from industrial hemp (“CBD Smokables”), including...
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