Earlier today, the US Department of Agriculture released "interim final" rules to implement the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (also known as the 2018 Farm Bill). The law removed hemp and hemp-derived products with less than 0.3% THC from being a Schedule I drug under...
Today the US Food & Drug Administration announced approval of the first legal cannabis-based drug. The drug, GW Pharmaceuticals' Epidiolex, which will be prescribed to treat severe seizures caused by Dravet syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, will be offered in liquid form and will not contain...
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced a plan on Monday to introduce federal legislation to remove industrial hemp as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). Citing hemp as important to Kentucky’s farming history, he voiced his most positive support to...