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Falcon Rappaport & Berkman LLP

Not So Fast, Court Tells New York City Sheriff’s Office – Court Issues Injunction Ordering Immediate STOP to “Unconstitutional”...

Recently, New York State Supreme Court Justice Thomas Marcelle ordered an immediate halt to warrantless searches of licensed hemp retailers. These searches had been conducted in connection with raids targeting smoke shops and...more

Cozen O'Connor

AGA Working Groups Grapple with Gritty Topics: Cybersecurity, ORC and Cannabis

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From October 3rd to 5th in Boston, the Attorney General Alliance (AGA) held a series of working group meetings focused on topics uppermost in the minds of state AGs: cybersecurity, organized retail crime (ORC) and cannabis....more

The Rodman Law Group, LLC

USDA Comes to Its Senses Regarding Hemp

On February 27, 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) announced that it will delay the enforcement requirement of the Drug Enforcement Agency (“DEA”) laboratory certification process and reverse distributer...more

Carlton Fields

You Can Transport Hemp Across State Lines, But State Governments May Object

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The federal government will not stop you from transporting hemp around the country. Unlike marijuana, which has high THC concentration, hemp has only 0.3 percent of the delta-9 THC concentration on a dry-weight basis. The...more

Ward and Smith, P.A.

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

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Client Alert: Florida Hemp Regulation is Coming: What Farmers, Investors, and Business Owners Can Do Now

On December 12, 2018, President Trump signed the Farm Bill removing hemp from the list of controlled substances and making it federally legal to grow and sell hemp. Hemp comes from the same cannabis plant that produces...more

Stoel Rives LLP

‘Use Caution’ When Shipping Hemp Across State Lines

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Despite the December passage of the 2018 Farm Bill, the legal status of hemp cultivation and transportation across the United States remains murky....more

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