#hemp-cbd

Epilepsy patients navigate a murky, unregulated CBD market

The products may help some people with the neurological disorder, but obtaining the right treatments can be difficult In 2013, Tonya Taylor says, she was suicidal because her epileptic seizures kept coming even though she was taking a long list of medications. Then a fellow patient at a Denver neurologist’s office mentioned something that gave Taylor hope: a CBD oil called Charlotte’s Web. The…

Marijuana and Hemp Industries Strike Tentative Deal Over Delta-8 THC, Modified Cannabinoids

This state’s hemp and marijuana businesses want Colorado to create a task force to smooth a rift between the two industries. Although both are cannabis plants, hemp and marijuana differ in one key way: THC. If a hemp plant’s flowers or a final hemp product tests above 0.3 percent THC, it is considered marijuana by the federal government and must be destroyed or remediated. A variety of hemp…

Dangerous Synthesized Cannabinoids Threaten the Legal Medical and Adult Use Cannabis Marketplace

By John Hartsell Most people know CBD as a cure all for a myriad of ailments and as a less intimidating alternative to cannabis. However, when in the wrong hands and paired with lax policy, an offset of this cannabinoid is creating a gray market of harmful drugs as unnatural as most pharmaceuticals. For over 45 years, there has been a resilient push to liberalize cannabis laws with…

California Will Regulate CBD

by Griffen Thorne, Attorney at Harris Bricken For many years, we’ve written about California’s truly bizarre animus towards hemp-derived CBD. Many efforts to regulate CBD failed. Last year, the state finally managed to pass AB-45 but the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) hasn’t really done anything since. That will change soon. Finally, California will regulate CBD. California is…

CBD Industry Welcomes FSA’s Public List As ‘Milestone Moment’ Bringing Much Needed ‘Clarity’ To Sector – But Questions Remain Over Its Handling Of The Process

LAST week saw the highly anticipated publication of the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA) Public List, including 3536 CBD products which will now legally be allowed to remain on sale in the UK. Although no products are expected to be fully validated until at least 2023, and hundreds of applications continue to be processed, the industry’s reaction to its publication has been widely positive. While…

German Courts Continue To Prosecute Hundreds Of Cannabis Businesses Despite Looming Legalisation

HUNDREDS of companies are still being hounded through the German courts for alleged breaches of the country’s strict cannabis laws – despite the country signalling its intent to imminently introduce adult-use legislation. Just last month two German businesses failed in their attempt to overturn a ban on the sale of hemp after a court dismissed their case. The Administrative Court of Braunschweig…

At Moon Flower, a hemp business run by three generations of Appalachian women, business is blooming

BUCKHANNON, W.Va. — Most mornings in the spring of 2019, sisters Riley and Macie Queen got up before daybreak and drove out to their family’s hemp farm in central West Virginia with their childhood friend Cayla Collett. After hours spent trimming and tending hundreds of plants with loving precision, they’d all ride together to class at the local college, hemp leaves still stuck in their…