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Kristen Nichols

Kristen is a Denver-based reporter for Marijuana Business Daily specializing in the hemp and CBD industries. Previously, she worked at the Associated Press for nearly 20 years. She started covering the marijuana legalization movement in 2009 – when medical stores started popping up around Denver – and wrote about the state’s first legal hemp harvest. Kristen also covered agriculture and politics in Maryland and her home state of Georgia


Articles by Kristen Nichols :

Michigan changes course on hemp-derived THC

Michigan is backing off a plan to allow hemp-derived THC products to be sold alongside marijuana products after the state’s MJ industry complained it could not compete with lower-cost hemp THC.

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Rules governing delta-8 THC vary widely by state

The toughest job in cannabis right now might be keeping track of fast-moving laws surrounding a THC isomer few had heard of just two years ago.

Delta-8 THC’s effects might be milder than those of the better-known delta-9 variety. But the isomer has triggered a potent stew of confusing laws and regulations that are giving even seasoned cannabis attorneys headaches.