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  • Hemp-CBD Across State Lines: Massachusetts

    Nov 10, 2019, 11:10 am By Daniel Shortt
    The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (“2018 Farm Bill”) legalized hemp by removing the crop and its derivatives from the definition of marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) and by providing a detailed framework for the cultivation of…
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  • A New California Law Will Affect Marijuana and Hemp Businesses Across the Nation

    Nov 9, 2019, 10:30 am By Griffen Thorne
    We’ve been writing a lot lately about recent major changes in federal hemp laws that will likely affect every hemp company in the United States (see here, here, and here). While we’re on the topic of dramatic legal changes, it’s probably a good idea to…
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  • Cannabis and Insurance Litigation

    Nov 8, 2019, 10:00 am By Jesse Mondry
    Recently, Jonathan Bench wrote about the importance of insurance coverage for your hemp or recreational marijuana business. His first article provided the basic anatomy of such policies and his second discussed the importance of product liability insurance.…
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  • Cannabis Topicals and Cosmetics: Join Us November 20th in Marina Del Rey!

    Nov 7, 2019, 10:00 am By Canna Law Blog
    On November 20th, our own Alison Malsbury will lead a presentation on CBD & Cosmetics at the 2019 Emerging Issues Conference in Marina del Rey, California. Her presentation will focus on the contentious landscape of hemp and CBD topical products, which she…
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  • Federal Antitrust Scrutiny and (Certain) Cannabis Deals

    Nov 6, 2019, 10:00 am By Hilary Bricken
    If you follow state-by-state legal cannabis legalization, you’re aware that despite the federal illegality of cannabis, certain federal agencies police the cannabis industry like they do any other legal industry. For example, the NLRB has been known to go…
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  • Cannabis Patent Litigation: What Constitutes Infringement?

    Nov 5, 2019, 10:00 am By Jihee Ahn
    As expected, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has continued to increase the number of patents issued containing the words “cannabis” or “marijuana” this year. Because we anticipate that the growing number of patents in this industry and progression…
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  • Los Angeles Cannabis Retail Licensing May Get Derailed

    Nov 4, 2019, 10:00 am By Griffen Thorne
    Getting a cannabis license in Los Angeles has been notoriously difficult—and may be about to get worse as news dropped last week that a Los Angeles City Council member is recommending that the most recent phase of licensing applications essentially be…
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  • Hemp-CBD Across State Lines: Special Update on USDA Hemp Rules

    Nov 3, 2019, 10:00 am By Daniel Shortt
    The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (“2018 Farm Bill”) legalized hemp by removing the crop and its derivatives from the definition of marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) and by providing a detailed framework for the cultivation of…
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  • Join Us on a November 14th for a Webinar Analysis of the USDA Hemp Interim Regulations

    Nov 2, 2019, 11:00 am By Hilary Bricken
    Big changes are finally on the horizon for hemp in the United States. On Tuesday, October 29th the United States Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) dropped its interim hemp rules pursuant to the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (commonly known as the…
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  • Join Us on November 14th for a FREE Webinar on the USDA Hemp Interim Regulations

    Nov 2, 2019, 11:00 am By Canna Law Blog
    Big changes are finally on the horizon for hemp in the United States. On Tuesday, October 29th the United States Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) dropped its interim hemp rules pursuant to the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (commonly known as the…
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  • CBD Topicals are Not Immune from FDA Scrutiny, as Recent Warning Letters Show

    Nov 2, 2019, 10:00 am By Alison Malsbury
    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…
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  • Why the USDA Testing Rules Will Hurt the Hemp Industry

    Nov 1, 2019, 10:00 am By Nathalie Bougenies
    On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) released its interim final rule for the production of hemp under the 2018 Farm Bill. Although these rules are not final, they will go into effect once published in the Federal Register, at which point…
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  • Natural Products, the FDA and Cannabis Regulation

    Oct 31, 2019, 10:00 am By Jonathan Bench
    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…
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  • California Cannabis: Department of Business Oversight Issues Somewhat Helpful Guidance to Financial Institutions

    Oct 30, 2019, 10:00 am By Jihee Ahn
    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…
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  • BREAKING: USDA Releases Hemp Rules

    Oct 29, 2019, 2:03 pm By Daniel Shortt
    Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) released its interim hemp rules. This is a major step in the full implementation of the 2018 Farm Bill. These rules are not final but they will be effective as soon as they are published in the Federal…
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  • Should You Import Hemp to the United States?

    Oct 29, 2019, 10:00 am By Nathalie Bougenies
    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…
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  • California Cannabis Bill Roundup for October 2019

    Oct 28, 2019, 10:00 am By Hilary Bricken
    Seems like not a month goes by in California where the Assembly isn’t trying to pass a slew of cannabis bills to help regulate the state’s industry under the Medicinal and Adult-Use Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act (“MAUCRSA”). And October was no…
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  • Hemp-CBD Across State Lines: Maryland

    Oct 27, 2019, 1:03 pm By Griffen Thorne
    The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (“2018 Farm Bill”) legalized hemp by removing the crop and its derivatives from the definition of marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) and by providing a detailed framework for the cultivation of…
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  • Grading the Presidential Candidates on Marijuana: Overall Rankings

    Oct 26, 2019, 10:00 am By Molly Nelson
    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…
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  • Oregon Hemp Webinar: The Video

    Oct 25, 2019, 10:00 am By Canna Law Blog
    In case you couldn’t join us earlier this month, or would like to revisit some of the information, below is the recording from our most recent lunch hour webinar on Oregon hemp. Enjoy!
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