Kids are buying pot-like drugs from corner stores. Lawmakers want to stop it. March 13, 2024 AggregatedNews Hemp Business Executive, News & Insights 0 Comments Efforts to put guardrails around the largely unregulated market for intoxicating hemp products have repeatedly sparked lawsuits. Mississippi is confronting an unlikely new drug scourge: Hemp. Intoxicating, hemp-derived products — which aren’t subject to testing or packaging requirements — are… Read More→
Litigation Trends Impacting the Hemp Intoxicating Product Market March 7, 2024 Kristin McCall Hemp Business Executive, Hemp Policy & Legal 0 Comments By Kristin McCall, Hannah King and Jacob Raver The hemp intoxicating product market is exploding. The products are ubiquitous, occupying shelf space not just in gas stations and smoke shops but also in retail locations thought to be more “conservative”… Read More→
Thoughts on THCA, Interstate Sales….and Oregon February 19, 2024 AggregatedNews Hemp Policy & Legal, Interstate Commerce, Oregon 0 Comments By Vince Śliwowski, Managing Partner of Harris Sliwoski Friend of the firm Andrew DeWeese published a recent LinkedIn post on Oregon’s outlying stance on THCA the other day, and the priorities of local industry advocates. I wanted to highlight that post and… Read More→
Ubiquitous in Florida, delta-8 would be banned under bill that just passed the Senate February 16, 2024 AggregatedNews Florida, Hemp Policy & Legal 0 Comments Florida lawmakers are just a step away from banning delta-8 products, like edible gummies, vapes and joints that can create a psychoactive high in its users. Florida senators on Thursday unanimously passed a bill that would exclude synthetic or naturally… Read More→
California Bill May Change State’s Cannabis and Hemp Industries February 12, 2024 AggregatedNews California, Hemp Business Executive 0 Comments By Griffen Thorne, Attorney @ Harris Sliwoski, On February 7, 2024, California Assembly Member Aguilar-Curry introduced AB 2223. The bill, if passed, would significantly change the state’s cannabis and hemp industries – for better or worse. Today, we’ll take a look… Read More→
What Overturning Chevron Could Mean for Cannabis January 23, 2024 Tom Hymes Hemp Policy & Legal, News & Insights, Spotlight 0 Comments If the United States Supreme Court overturns the longstanding Chevron deference, which is not unlikely considering the mien of certain justices during recent oral arguments as well as a general antipathy to the doctrine that has developed over the years,… Read More→
CBD & Cannabis Categories Look for Traction January 9, 2024 AggregatedNews Hemp Business Executive, News & Insights 0 Comments A lack of federal mandates and myriad state regulations stymie retailers and suppliers. NATIONAL REPORT — With Passage of the 2018 Farm Bill and legalization of recreational marijuana across half the country, marketers thought cannabis and cannabidiol (CBD) products would… Read More→
Cannabis Industry Confounded by Lack of ‘Legal Intoxicant’ Definition December 14, 2023 Steven Schain Hemp Business Executive, Hemp Policy & Legal 0 Comments With a feud raging over what’s a regulated “intoxicant,” billions of cannabis dollars hang in the balance. Forming America’s sixth-largest crop yielding 48.8 million pounds of flower and projected to generate $33.5 billion in 2023 legal sales, marijuana’s plunging price-per-pound… Read More→
CBD May Help Prevent And Alleviate Alzheimer’s Disease, Study Finds November 30, 2023 AggregatedNews Hemp Industry News, Science and Technology 0 Comments A new study has found that CBD may have the potential to prevent and alleviate Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's disease (AD) impacts over 6 million patients in the United States and currently lacks a market-available cure, although there are medications that… Read More→
USDA is giving some farmers an ultimatum: Grow hemp or marijuana November 25, 2023 AggregatedNews Hemp Policy & Legal 0 Comments Regulatory inconsistency has forced farmers in several states out of the industry American farmers seized the opportunity to grow hemp after it was legalized in the 2018 farm bill, hoping the potentially lucrative crop could help keep their businesses afloat.… Read More→
Kentucky’s New Regulations for Hemp-Derived Cannabinoid Products November 16, 2023 Hannah King Hemp Policy & Legal, Kentucky 2 Comments By Kristin McCall, Arin Aragona, and Hannah King, Attorneys at Dentons While hemp has been legal in Kentucky since 2013, until this year the existing regulations were minimal. Hemp industry participants, such as processors, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and testing labs… Read More→
Delta’s Case in Missouri: A Third-party Evaluation October 26, 2023 Tom Hymes Hemp Industry News, Missouri, News & Insights 0 Comments In a situation that continues to roil the Missouri cannabis market, the Missouri Division of Cannabis Regulation (DCR) in August recalled almost 63,000 product SKUs associated with Delta Extraction LLC, leading retailers throughout the state to remove product from the… Read More→
It’s legal again to buy delta-8 in Maryland — for now October 16, 2023 AggregatedNews Hemp Policy & Legal, Maryland 0 Comments Three months after a state law effectively banned Maryland stores from selling some delta-8 and other hemp-derived products, a state judge gave the industry a lifeline Thursday, ordering an injunction that temporarily lifts restrictions on their sale. For several years,… Read More→
Intoxicating Hemp Product Laws are More Complicated Than They Seem October 2, 2023 AggregatedNews Hemp Policy & Legal 0 Comments By Griffen Thorne, Attorney at Harris Sliwoski When Congress passed the 2018 Farm Bill, did it intend to legalize intoxicating hemp products? If it did, why didn’t it just legalize marijuana? And why didn’t it address the manufacture or sale… Read More→
In red states where marijuana is illegal other hemp products flourish August 29, 2023 Rob Meagher Hemp Industry News 0 Comments In North Carolina, recreational marijuana is illegal. So is medical marijuana. But you wouldn't know that when you go to Blue Flowers, a hemp store in one of Charlotte's most upscale areas, next to a Whole Foods. Approaching the store,… Read More→