Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2015
Amends the Controlled Substances Act to exclude industrial hemp from the definition of "marihuana." Defines "industrial hemp" to mean the plant Cannabis sativa L. and any part of such plant, whether growing or not, with a delta-nine tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of not more than 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis. Deems Cannabis sativa L. to meet that concentration limit if a person grows or processes it for purposes of making industrial hemp in accordance with state law, unless the Attorney General determines that the state law is not reasonably calculated to comply with such definition.


I would have thought the bill was safe but look at the last line in bold.


anyone see the problem here?

[G.O. Joe]

Originally Posted by hellfire

Hemp, is not considered part of 'marihuana' by congressional definition. It is entirely removed from the controlled substances act so long as it follows the below .3% mark.

Introduced in Senate (01/08/2015)

Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2015
Amends the Controlled Substances Act to exclude industrial hemp from the definition of "marihuana." Defines "industrial hemp" to mean the plant Cannabis sativa L. and any part of such plant, whether growing or not, with a delta-nine tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of not more than 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis. Deems Cannabis sativa L. to meet that concentration limit if a person grows or processes it for purposes of making industrial hemp in accordance with state law, unless the Attorney General determines that the state law is not reasonably calculated to comply with such definition.


Any CBD derived from hemp is technically legal. So long as it does not exceed the .3% limit, and in some states like Oregon they have a 1% limit.

Isolates and distillates that are below that limit are all still perfectly legal. Even further, when you make a CBD product it is diluted even further to .00X% THC.

Nobody seems to be keen on stopping regardless. The CBD industry is moving as usual.

There's a few other conditions.

It's true, nothing has changed. It's only a big surprise to those ignorant of the CSA and hemp exemption language and those who are shocked, shocked that the extracts they've been making and selling are illegal. DEA is trying to cool the market without doing something more politically dangerous.

DEA is free to make things up as they go along, be sued in court, and add new substances with no oversight. Federal law for Cannabis and cannabinoid prohibition is unambiguously defined, with the current language going back to Nixon, so there's only so much they can get away with. They're not getting away with much here, because CBD extraction has been illegal for a long time.

[hellfire]

If CBD extraction is federally illegal then its going to be a state vs fed government debate. Most hemp applications in states includes a section for licensing a CBD lab...so we'll see if that ever comes to the court debate but that would be a very tangled web.

[G.O. Joe]

Fuck the states. Total botching of even just MMJ or home growing at state level everywhere. Time for everyone to pull their heads out of the sand and embrace federal law for what it is and do something about it.

The DEA doesn't have the power to make CBD extracts legal. The courts aren't going to be your messiah either, so you might as well stop waiting. Has it occurred to anyone that some action by congress is necessary? It's very unfortunate that MJ law is written for the MMJ crowd, who (like the media) are pacified with smoke and mirrors and a phone book of regulations that are obvious sabotage.

But this is not really the best time to ask for new drug laws.

Is it a good time to ask that the old drug laws be stricken off the record ?

funny stuff on sessions here-

https://hightimes.com/news/jeff-sessi...d-hes-mad-bro/

[gaiusmarius]

lol this issue is confusing as fuck, so now the dea announcement about cbd was fake news? or you saying them announcing it doesn't make it so? people need to be specific.

Jokes aside, not fake news

Originally Posted by Weird

it is the shift to make it so it has to be licensed by the fda and dea in order to work

this fulfills big pharmas designs as as predicted a decade ago

That^ is the reason the DEA added the classification.


Take this statement-

“For practical purposes, all extracts that contain CBD will also contain at least small amounts of other cannabinoids,” the DEA said. “However, if it were possible to produce from the cannabis plant an extract that contained only CBD and no other cannabinoids, such an extract would fall within the new drug code.”

Pair that with what I said about the AG having the authority to change the farm bill lowering the “delta-nine tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of not more than 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis” to not more than 0.0 and it is easy to see what the purpose was.

The only ones capable of producing PURE CBD will be big pharma leaving everyone else open for arrest and conviction of a controlled substance.

The new classification includes synthetics so big business won’t bother with plant extractions and just go with the most bang for the buck.

Lastly, purity issues addressed, Sessions will not stand in the way of CBD being reclassified as a medicine to the delight of shareholders everywhere.

it was all in the plan

[brown_thumb]

Fuck the DEA.

[socioecologist]

The DEA's most recent filing in this case acknowledges that hemp-derived cannabinoids are legal. If they (the DEA) win the case, hemp stays legal. If the DEA loses their case or it's tossed out, hemp stays legal. Catch the drift here? The DEA never had a leg to stand on and now, confronted by actual law and analysis, they are being forced to admit it was all bully tactics. Great analysis of this can be found on Rod Kight's blog:

https://kightoncannabis.com/has-the-...rent-position/

[brown_thumb]

SO... we can 'find and administer' CBD meds but THC meds are still illegal. It's commonly known that a 50:50 mix is appropriate for self medication (on average).

SO... if we grow a few very high THC strains and some CBD strains then we ONLY PAY for the high THC strains??

SO... if we raise just a couple of high THC strains and several high CBD strains then maybe we'll do less 'time/risk'?? We can mix the 'legal' CBD strains with the 'ill****' THC strains with less risk??