In a stinging rebuke to the $32 billion regulated U.S. marijuana industry – and to one multistate operator, in particular – Florida voters on Tuesday appeared to reject a constitutional amendment that would have legalized adult-use cannabis in the nation’s largest medical-only market.
Trulieve Cannabis has donated $141.9 million of the total $149.7 million spent on the campaign to pass Florida’s adult-use measure.
A California judge has temporarily upheld a wide-ranging. statewide ban on nearly all consumer hemp products containing THC.
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, has introduced a bill in Congress that would raise the THC level on hemp products and lightly regulate them nationally.
The Georgia hemp industry was tasked with the dual challenge of navigating a hurricane and new regulations governing allowable products over the past week.
Congress ought to “state clearly” that hemp-derived THC and other intoxicating cannabinoids extracted from hemp are subject to the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), according to a new report sponsored by federal health authorities.
A new federal agency would be responsible for enforcing fresh regulations imposed on Farm Bill-compliant hemp products in the United States – including a ban on “artificially or synthetically derived cannabinoids of any kind” – under a bill introduced in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday.
