Rogue Intoxicants and the Cannabis Beverage Explosion June 26, 2024 Steven Schain Hemp Business Executive, Hemp Policy & Legal 0 Comments Will whetting your whistle with rogue intoxicants be cannabis’ next jackpot? Cannabis-infused beverages are among the most popular cannabis consumables, easy to launch and scale by existing breweries and cideries, and will undoubtedly take the nation by storm. By Steve… 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→
That THC is Too D*** High: Perverted incentives create cannabis testing chaos across most markets. May 1, 2023 Brian MacIver Lab Testing, Spotlight 0 Comments The cannabis industry, like Major League Baseball during its 30-year steroid era, has a juicing problem. Reports of inflated THC figures on cannabis flower and pre-roll packaging are widespread across all mature markets, including in Canada. For example, in a… Read More→
Virginia lawmakers to weigh Youngkin’s changes to hemp bill April 12, 2023 AggregatedNews Hemp Policy & Legal, Virginia 1 Comment RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has proposed a rewrite of a bill that aimed to ban the recreational sales of intoxicating hemp-derived products, seeking to ensure the continued availability of certain therapeutic CBD formulations. Youngkin’s proposed changes… Read More→
Georgia lawmakers try to wrap heads around regulating hemp-based recreational products April 10, 2023 AggregatedNews Georgia 0 Comments In the final days of this year’s legislative session, a bill aimed at regulating hemp products fell short after lawmakers tried to insert language banning Delta-8 THC and similar products that are often used recreationally. House Bill 458, sponsored by… Read More→
Critics say Florida bills aimed to regulate hemp industry would instead kill it April 4, 2023 AggregatedNews Hemp Policy & Legal 0 Comments PENSACOLA, Fla. -- A pair of bills in the Florida legislature would regulate the hemp industry, but many across the state say the current proposal would kill the industry altogether. Senate Bill 1676 and House Bill 1475 would ban marketing… Read More→
Beshear signs bill raising legal age to buy marijuana alternative in Kentucky March 23, 2023 AggregatedNews Uncategorized 0 Comments Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear signed a bill into law Thursday to make it illegal for people under age 21 to buy products containing delta-8 THC, a marijuana alternative. The bill, which passed unanimously through the legislature this month, also bars… Read More→
Are Experts’ Warnings About Delta-8 Really Being Heeded by States? (UPDATED) January 19, 2023 Tom Hymes Cannabis & Hemp Research, Hemp Policy & Legal, News & Insights, Spotlight 2 Comments A report released last week recommending the regulation of "hemp-derived non-delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol products" in Maryland would seem to be a good thing. Its issuance is already being characterized as a call-to-action for the legislature to act. The 134-page report by the… Read More→
Delta-8 THC Generated $2 Billion In Revenue In 2 Years, Report Finds January 16, 2023 AggregatedNews Hemp Business Executive 0 Comments Delta-8 THC products have seen a surge in popularity in the past two years, resulting in over $2 billion in sales as an alternative to traditional marijuana. According to a recent report by cannabis analytics firm Brightfield Group, the increasing popularity of… Read More→
Cannabis’ Plummeting Price-Per-Pound and the Rise of Delta-8 THC December 12, 2022 Steven Schain Hemp Business Executive, News & Insights 0 Comments Although forming America’s sixth-largest crop yielding 48.8 million pounds of flower and $27 billion in legal sales annually, marijuana’s plunging price-per-pound and the availability of cheaper, unregulated hemp-derived tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) products is thwarting the cannabis industry. Whether cultivated indoors, outdoors… Read More→
Minnesota Company behind “Death by Gummy Bears” marijuana edibles accused of selling products 50 times more powerful than allowed December 8, 2022 AggregatedNews Minnesota 0 Comments The Minnesota pharmaceutical board filed a civil lawsuit this week alleging that a cannabis retailer sold edible products containing more than 50 times the state's legal limit for THC. The retailer, a business conglomerate called Northland Vapor, was specifically accused… Read More→
Legal but unregulated hemp derivative delta-8 thrives in Pa.’s thorny marijuana landscape June 14, 2022 AggregatedNews Hemp Business Executive, Hemp Policy & Legal 0 Comments HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania lawmakers and advocates for legal cannabis say uneven access to marijuana has pushed consumers toward a widely available — but unregulated — psychoactive product whose exact contents are often impossible to discern. A state senator is now… Read More→
The Great Delta-8 Debate: Many Shades of Grey? June 9, 2022 Rachel Gillette Hemp Policy & Legal 0 Comments By Rachel Gillette and Jennifer Benda Confused by the legal status of Delta-8? Why wouldn’t you be?... it is confusing. Delta-8 is a legally complicated derivative of the Cannabis Sativa plant. As the FDA acknowledges, “Delta-8 THC is one of over… Read More→
Delta-8 Is Legal, But … May 25, 2022 AggregatedNews Hemp Policy & Legal 0 Comments by Fred Rocafort, Attorney at Harris Bricken Just last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court’s holding that the 2018 Farm Bill legalized delta-8 THC products derived from hemp. In the Ninth Circuit’s… Read More→