Louisiana’s hemp industry is challenging a new state law that tightens restrictions on hemp-derived products, arguing it conflicts with federal law and could criminalize products that have been legal for for the half a decade now. According to Law360, the Hemp Association of Louisiana and Cypress Hemp LLC filed a federal lawsuit Friday against Gov. […]
Absent federal regulations for the $28.4 billion market for goods containing intoxicating hemp-derived cannabinoids – and in an era where states are imposing increasingly tough restrictions or outright bans on hemp-derived THC – a major hemp organization has created a certification program for such products. The U.S. Hemp Authority, a Kentucky-based, third-party certification body for […]
The hemp industry scored a significant victory when a New Jersey judge ruled that the state cannot enforce parts of a new law that treat out-of-state hemp products differently. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Zahid Quraishi came two days before an Oct. 12 deadline for businesses to remove hemp products such as CBD lotions, hemp-based […]
