States will have another year to develop their hemp programs as the U.S. Department of Agriculture extended its pilot program for the now federally legal crop.
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- The 2018 farm bill which legalized hemp gave states until October 31, 2020 to submit hemp regulations. If they didn’t growers in those states would be governed by USDA rules, which some in the industry consider too restrictive.
- About 30 states have not submitted plans. Some of the delays no doubt owe to the pandemic.
- The USDA’s flexibility is a sharp contrast to the U.S. DEA’s approach to CBD. A new rule from that agency has set off alarms in the CBD and hemp worlds.
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- Dr. Sue Sisley, the Arizona psychiatrist who’s been trying for many years to study MED as a treatment for PTSD, filed a brief in federal court challenging marijuana’s schedule I status.
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