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Pennsylvania Perspective for Monday, May 5, 2025

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Gov. Shapiro Fights to Restore Funding for PA Farmers, Food Banks - Governor Josh Shapiro (D) is challenging the Trump administration’s cancellation of a program that funds Pennsylvania farmers supplying food banks, arguing...more

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Pennsylvania Perspective for Thursday, February 20, 2025

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Pennsylvania officials are awaiting further guidance on federal funding cuts — impacting infrastructure, energy, transit, and more — with Governor Josh Shapiro’s office suing five federal agencies over $1.2 billion in...more

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New York Lawmakers Boost State’s Legal Cannabis Market

New York has approved two new state laws expected to boost the state’s legal cannabis market and help marijuana farmers and retailers. One law revives the Cannabis Growers Showcase program, which allows licensed cannabis...more

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Budding Issues? The Fading Smoke of One Union at a Cannabis Workplace in Massachusetts

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Employees at a Cresco Labs cannabis cultivation facility in Massachusetts recently made an unexpected and significant decision: they chose to say goodbye to their union membership just shy of their first...more

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Delta-Nope: Florida Poised to Ban Delta-8 and Delta-10 Products

Earlier this week, the Florida legislature passed a bill (SB 1698) that will limit the amount of THC in hemp-derived products and threatens to upend the novel cannabinoid industry in the state. For the past few years,...more

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The Week in Weed: September 2020 #4

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Welcome back to The Week in Weed, your Friday look at what’s happening in the world of legalized marijuana....more

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Key Takeaways from USDA’s Interim Hemp Production Rule

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On October 31, 2019 the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) published an Interim Final Rule (84 FR 58522) establishing the U.S. Domestic Hemp Production Program and outlining a regulatory framework for monitoring hemp...more

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USDA Issues Interim Final Rule to Establish Domestic Hemp Production Program and Approve State and Tribal Oversight Plans

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Effective upon Publication, USDA’s Interim Final Rule Sets Forth One Important Part of the Regime for Marketing Hemp Products in the United States - This week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued an interim...more

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BREAKING NEWS: USDA Releases Interim Final Hemp Rule

On October 29, 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its long-awaited interim final rule governing the U.S. Domestic Hemp Production Program. USDA has been developing these interim regulations since hemp...more

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America's Growing Embrace of Cannabis

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The laws and regulations of the U.S. and each individual state are evolving at a significant pace concerning one genus of flowering plants, and mostly with a tender embrace. Despite being criminalized for the greater part...more

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Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire: The Raging Legislative Battle Over Smokable Hemp

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Hemp and its derivatives – including hemp-derived cannabidiol ("CBD") – were previously classified as Schedule I controlled substances under the Controlled Substances Act of 1972 ("CSA"). That changed in December 2018,...more

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NCGA Week in Review - July 2019 #1

From healthcare to hemp, members of the North Carolina General Assembly pushed through another week of long floor sessions and packed committee meetings. A number of bills that have been waiting for their day in committee...more

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NC Bill With Proposed Smokable Hemp Ban Makes Way Through Committee

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Yesterday a bill containing a proposed ban on smokable hemp passed the NC Senate Agricultural Committee. The bill still has to pass through three other committees before it reaches the floor for a vote. It has also been...more

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Illinois Issues New Industrial Hemp Applications And Regulations

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Illinois finally issued its industrial hemp applications and final regulations in accordance with the new Illinois Industrial Hemp Act. https://www2.illinois.gov/sites/agr/Plants/Pages/Industrial-Hemp.aspx. These is no limit...more

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North Carolina Legislative Update - March 2019 #4

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Budget appropriations meetings continued this week at the General Assembly as a number of substantive bills were introduced on a variety of topics. Farm Act of 2019 (S315) - The annual bill to make various changes in...more

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Bill Introduced In General Assembly To Create NC Hemp Commission And Promote Private Hemp Industry

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Yesterday, Senators Brent Jackson (R-Sampson), Norman Sanderson (R-Pamlico) and Todd Johnson (R-Union) introduced S.B. 315 (the “North Carolina Farm Act of 2019”), a bill to create the North Carolina Hemp Commission. The...more

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NC Politics in the News: Your weekly North Carolina political news report March 2019 #3

Agriculture - THE NEWS & OBSERVER: A 145-year-old tobacco company gets into the CBD oil business in North Carolina In a former tobacco warehouse in a city that once touted itself as the “world’s greatest tobacco market,”...more

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Many Hearings, Few Recommendations Out of Indiana Legislative Study Committees

Every year after the Indiana legislature adjourns, the leaders assign topics to be studied in the interim before the next session. (For more on this, check out our 2018 Legislative Wrap Up.) This year was no different, and a...more

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