FORBES DEC 19, 2016 @ 10:57 AM Debra Borchardt , CONTRIBUTOR I write about retail and cannabis. The battle lines are heating up between the marijuana Marketplace and the Drug Enforcement Agency. Last Wednesday, the DEA slipped an update in the Federal Register that established a new drug code for marijuana extracts. The move panicked the industry, […]
The Sky is NOT Falling Yesterday the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued a Final Rule on the coding of marijuana extracts. Unfortunately some misleading media stories and social media postings lead quite a few people to panic at reports that CBD was being banned under this new rule. The Sky is NOT Falling. The Final […]
1 December 14, 2016 DÉJÀ VU? IS THE DEA UNLAWFULLY ATTEMPTING TO OUTLAW ALL CANNABINOIDS…AGAIN? I. INTRODUCTION The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has, yet again, demonstrated its lawless recalcitrance for the prevailing law. A new Rule published in the Federal Register, and currently set to become effective on January 13, 2017, seeks to control all […]
Blue Moon Hemp – DEA Ruling – Further Legal Clarification December 16, 2016 Today, many of you have forwarded us stories that are sweeping our industry regarding the DEA reclassifying CBD as a Schedule I Drug. To follow is our response to those stories, and the DEA’s actions: Fundamentally, CBD derived from hemp is not specifically […]
Blue Moon Hemp – DEA Ruling is Good News By Christopher D. Cowart December 15, 2016 Fort Lauderdale, FL – The announcement in the Federal Register yesterday by the DEA addressing the change in assigning a code to extracts from Cannabis is welcome news. Although some have misinterpreted this as a negative development, […]
