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Texas pot problem as new hemp law creates legal confusion

The term “Texas smokehouse” may be taking on a whole new meaning. A law enacted by the Lone Star State this past June 10 allows Texas farmers to grow hemp for a variety of purposes. But in doing so, lawmakers may have inadvertently decriminalized cannabis, otherwise known as marijuana, even if they insist they didn’t. House Bill 1325 […]

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Grading the Presidential Candidates on Marijuana: Overall Rankings

In a recent 13-part series, we reviewed the stance of each of the 2020 presidential candidates’ on marijuana, and we assigned each candidate a letter grade corresponding with our analysis. Our grading criteria is as follows: Current stance on marijuana: What have they recently said about marijuana legislation? When did they adopt this stance? We

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Should You Import Hemp to the United States?

The passage of the 2018 Farm Bill and the legalization of hemp and hemp-derived products has sparked strong business interest from foreign stakeholders. For the past few months, our firm has received numerous inquiries from existing and prospective clients about the legality of importing the agricultural crop and its derived products, particularly hemp-derived CBD (“Hemp-CBD”),

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California Cannabis: Department of Business Oversight Issues Somewhat Helpful Guidance to Financial Institutions

Earlier this month, on October 3, the California Department of Business Oversight (the “DBO”) issued a Cannabis Banking Guidance memorandum to its state-chartered financial institutions (banks and credit unions) to help them make appropriate risk assessments in serving cannabis-related businesses and comply with federal guidelines.  The memorandum is in the form of an extensive questionnaire. The

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Natural Products, the FDA and Cannabis Regulation

I recently attended two events in Utah headlined by the United Natural Products Alliance (“UNPA”) where its President, Loren Israelsen, discussed the voluminous public comments received by the FDA in response its latest round of questions regarding how over-the-counter cannabis extracts like CBD should be regulated. Israelsen provided numerous takeaways for UNPA members and their

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CBD Topicals are Not Immune from FDA Scrutiny, as Recent Warning Letters Show

We’ve written extensively on this blog about industrial hemp-derived CBD products, including CBD comestibles, CBD pet products, CBD in alcohol, and CBD topicals. Of all these categories of goods, the CBD industry seems to have reached a consensus that CBD topical products present the lowest level of risk for businesses, hence companies like CVS, Walgreens,

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