Hemp’s Legal Cannabinoids

While THC remains federally illegal, the legalization of hemp has opened up the way to powerful – and legal – cannabinoids.

Although limited in scope and requiring reams of red tape, the U.S. Farm Bill signed into law by President Obama in 2013 contained a relatively well-known but underappreciated provision which lifted federal restrictions on cannabis cultivation  in the form of hemp – in states which had passed equivalent reforms.

Of course, there are all kinds of catches. You have to be in a state that authorizes the activity, which most states still won’t allow. You have to get official permission from a researcher at a university within that state who has an active Internal Review Board (IRB) – difficult to get, sure, but it can be done. The most onerous restriction, in fact, is the bill’s mandate that no cannabis plant grown pursuant to the law produce flowers with greater than 0.3...

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