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Louisiana To Regulate CBD. Stop Store Sales Orders Given Temporary Permits.

During Louisiana’s most recent legislative session, lawmakers passed two house bills that would regulate and make legal the sale of Cannabidiol, otherwise known as CBD.The first was House Bill 138, which would make it so “hemp” doesn’t get grouped in with the regulations that apply to marijuana.The second was a bill that lays out the guidelines for growing hemp legally.

This makes it so CBD manufacturers can officially start working with regulators in the Louisiana Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control (LOATC).They have since started issuing temporary permits to those who wish to sell CBD, as long as those establishments are in line with the new regulations.

Local business owners in one of the few places that sold CBD before the regulations took effect, offered his perspective on what selling this product was like before the regulations. “The CBD was starting to sell well,” he said. “Most of your customers were older people. It’s an anti-inflammatory, so it’s good for arthritis. A lot of them were a little afraid of it being marijuana. You had to show them that it wasn’t, and explain to them what hemp is and what marijuana is and what THC is and that hemp doesn’t have it.

We’ve done 0% THC from day one,” he said. He  then went on to explain why exactly people started selling CBD so quickly and the government’s part in starting to regulate the process. President Trump signed a bill in December of last year that legalized hemp up to 0.3 percent of THC.

That’s what kicked this thing off and everybody jumped in. Well, midstream the state said you can’t do this, so we quit. The legislature was in process, they had a bill, and they said they were gonna fix it, and they did. We had a lag time of five to six weeks where we couldn’t sell it.

I was asked to put my signs up and stop, and I haven’t sold any for about a month. ”According to the world health organization, “Cannabidiol (CBD) is one of the naturally occurring cannabinoids found in cannabis plants. In humans, CBD exhibits no effects indicative of any abuse or dependence potential. CBD has been demonstrated as an effective treatment of epilepsy in several clinical trials, with one pure CBD product (Epidiolex®) currently in Phase III trials. There is also preliminary evidence that CBD may be a useful treatment for a number of other medical conditions.

CBD is generally well tolerated with a good safety profile.

To date, there is no evidence of recreational use of CBD or any public health-related problems associated with the use of properly extracted CBD.

“Essentially, CBD products are those that have the potential medicinal benefits of hemp’s sister plant marijuana, without any of the chemicals that get people high.

Businesses in Louisiana aren’t going to be able to start selling CBD products again until they get a temporary permit from the LOATC, but this owner believes that it is not necessarily a bad thing. “It’s just a state process you have to go through, deliver the papers, get a health department certificate, but the main thing, it looks like to me, is the LABEL!

According to the application for a temporary CBD permit, “the label must contain

‘This product has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease,’ the label shall not contain any medical claim, and the label shall have a Scannable code, QR code, or a web address linked to a website that contains certification of analysis provided by law. ”

I’ve got no problem with this, said the business man. I t’s gonna be a little more time added to the process, but once we get it situated, I won’t have a problem,” said the owner.

This article was republished.

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Wood You Like To Swing On A Star? Sunshine State? Hemp Takes Over Timber Trail.

In the wake of Hurricane Maria, as it made it’s way throughout the panhandle of Florida, I was unaware of the total destruction of one of our state’s Agricultural Resources, Timber. Therein lies the rub. Florida’s next new resource should be farming, followed by what’s happening, up north, well Kentucky.

Now that it’s legal to grow hemp in the United States, a man who’s spent the last decade developing hemp “hardwood” is building a $6 million factory to manufacture the product.

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His patented product called “HempWood” is made out of compressed hemp pulp fibers, held together with a soy-based glue.

While that may sound like some newfangled version of particle board, it’s not.

It looks and feels like oak, but is actually 20 percent harder than the famous hardwood tree.

It also grows 100 times as fast. While it takes an oak tree at least 6 decades to mature, it takes hemp 6 months.

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That’s good news for oak trees, as they are among the most endangered trees in the planet because of the high demand for solid oak furniture.

The owner of the new start up company Fibonacci, Greg Wilson,  was a pioneer in the bamboo flooring industry before hemp became legal.

The company uses technology popularized by China’s strand-woven bamboo industry, in addition to technology developed at Wilson’s other company SmartOak, which creates engineered wood products using logs that would otherwise be converted to wood chips.

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HempWood will be used to make blocks, boards, flooring, cutting boards and skateboards, all at prices far cheaper than oak, the company said.

The company will be headquartered in Kentucky, where more than 40,000 acres of hemp are already being cultivated.

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Light Up, Hempsters! Or Not?

CLIMAX, N.C. — North Carolina is the latest state considering a ban on smokable hemp, a product that’s exploding along with the health craze surrounding a compound in the plant known as CBD.

Besides federal regulations laid out in the Hemp Farming Act of 2018, the Food and Drug Administration has no additional regulations on smokable hemp, leaving states to figure out how to govern it themselves.

This year, Indiana, Louisiana and Texas banned smokable hemp entirely, while Kansas banned products including hemp cigarettes and cigars. Tennessee prohibited smokable hemp sales to minors.North Carolina’s House is considering a smokable hemp ban after it recently passed the state Senate.

The legislation focuses primarily on expanding the state’s pilot hemp growing program, which has more than 1,000 licensed hemp growers and 600 registered hemp processors, to position it as a leader in the burgeoning industry. The bill would place more regulations on hemp but also create a hemp licensing commission and establish a fund for regulation, testing and marketing.

North Carolina law enforcement wants the ban, saying officers have no way of distinguishing smokable hemp from marijuana.

Hemp and marijuana are both cannabis plants. Dried, smokable hemp looks and smells the same as marijuana but contains less than 0.3% of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the compound that gives marijuana its high. Hemp has cannabidiol, or CBD, which many believe helps with pain, anxiety and inflammation, though there’s limited scientific research to support those claims. It’s turning up in products ranging from lotions and cosmetics to diet pills and juices.

The proposed ban would impose a civil penalty of up to $2,500 for anyone who manufactures, sells or possesses smokable hemp.

But scores of farmers in the traditional tobacco state have told lawmakers a ban would hurt them as many deal with hurricane damage and decreased tobacco prices.

Three years ago, Shane Whitaker grew 275 acres of tobacco on his farm in Climax. This year, the second-generation tobacco farmer planted only 75 acres of his former cash crop and decided to grow hemp.

“We’re hoping for a lot of this hemp to replace tobacco,” he said. “I’m not for taking part of it off the market.”

So far, he said that hemp has been a good source of revenue to keep his farm running.

Second-year hemp farmer Lori Lacy, who has invested more than $190,000 on her 13-acre Franklin hemp farm, said she can make $1,000 for a pound of smokable hemp flower.

“I don’t want our infrastructure and everything that we have built up to this point to go away,” Lacy told lawmakers at a May hearing. “I will have to fire people.”

Smokable hemp is lucrative partly because farmers just need to dry the hemp flowers. Other products require a complicated, costly process for extracting CBD oil.

Jamie Schau, who analyzes CBD markets for the research firm Brightfield Group, said the market for smokable hemp flower is projected to grow to $70.6 million in 2019, up from $11.7 million in 2018. However, she said stigmas around smoking help keep smokable hemp at only about 1.4 percent of the overall market.

Smokable hemp is especially popular in the South, where no states have legalized recreational marijuana and many haven’t legalized medicinal marijuana, said Eric Steenstra, president of advocacy group Vote Hemp. Still, its popularity has been a surprise, he said: “Nobody really anticipated that anybody would want to smoke (hemp).”

North Carolina’s Senate voted to delay the ban until December 2020 to allow more time to figure out regulation, but a House committee subsequently moved the date a year sooner. That version is continuing to move through the House.

Bill co-sponsor Republican Sen. Brent Jackson of Sampson County prefers the later effective date because he thinks portable tests will be available soon to differentiate hemp from marijuana.

The State Bureau of Investigation and the North Carolina Association Chiefs of Police say delaying the ban would be a “de facto” legalization of marijuana, since people could disguise marijuana as hemp.

Last month, police in Four Oaks charged Amanda Furstonberg, 32, with marijuana possession after they saw her smoking what she says was hemp.

“They had me in tears,” she said.

Furstonberg started smoking hemp after a February car accident left her with chronic back pain. To avoid opioids, she tried taking CBD-infused gummies as a pain reliever but wanted something stronger and turned to smokable hemp.

“Within three and five seconds of being able to smoke it, I could tell that my body was starting to feel so much better —the throbbing was going away,” she said.

Police Chief Stephen Anderson defended his officers, saying he believed Furstonberg disguised marijuana as hemp. Her case is pending.

For now, farmers continue to grow smokable hemp. This year, Whitaker will plant roughly 30 acres of organic hemp with about 2,400 plants per acre, along with another 800 in a greenhouse.

Driving past empty greenhouses that once held tobacco, Whitaker said farming requires adapting to constant changes.

“It’s the Wild West right now,” Whitaker said.

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Will Illinois Be Able to Satisfy Marijuana’s Demand? Medical and Recreational.

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Illinois’ new recreational cannabis program calls for dispensaries to prioritize medical patients in the event of a marijuana shortage, addressing a concern that has cropped up in other states that have seen a high demand when recreational sales start.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker last Tuesday signed a measure that opens up marijuana to recreational use. Still on his desk is a bill passed by state lawmakers that makes the state’s medical marijuana pilot program permanent and also opens it up to an array of new qualifying conditions including autism, chronic pain and anorexia nervosa.

That bill, along with the protections for medical users that are part of the recreational pot bill, makes Illinois’ medical marijuana program “one of the stronger ones in the country,” said David Mangone, director of government affairs for Americans for Safe Access, which advocates for legal cannabis for therapeutic use and research.

The experience of the 10 states that have previously legalized recreational marijuana has shown that increased demand from recreational users can create supply issues for existing medical users. In addition, some of those states saw their medical cannabis program participation rates drop steeply as some medical users see no value in maintaining their medical card status and turn to recreational pot.

Medical users have at times struggled to find the particular marijuana product they use as the industry shifts to the forms of pot that have wider recreational appeal, Mangone said.

More than 70,000 people are currently participating in the Illinois medical marijuana program, which has been operating as a pilot since 2014 and was due to end next year.

The main goal behind the bill that makes permanent and expands medical cannabis is providing “stability” for the program and to prioritize medical patients, those who rely on cannabis to manage pain or other symptoms from a range of medical conditions, in the event of a demand issue, said bill sponsor Rep. Bob Morgan, a Deerfield Democrat.

In other states that have legalized recreational marijuana, the medical programs have suffered, Morgan said.

“A number of states have had shortages. There was a real recognition that this needs to be slowly expanding — businesses, licenses, cultivators,” Morgan said. “As we ramp up to Jan. 1, 2020, there is a very real possibility of a shortage.”

The adult-use recreational law that takes effect Jan. 1 calls for dispensing organizations that hold medical cannabis licenses issued under the medical pilot program to maintain “an adequate supply of cannabis and cannabis-infused products for purchase by qualifying patients and caregivers.”

img_1137An adequate supply is defined as an amount comparable to the average monthly inventory for the six months leading up to the January effective date of the recreational law.

If there’s a shortage of cannabis or cannabis-infused products, a dispensary that has dual medical and recreational licenses “shall prioritize serving qualifying patients and caregivers before serving purchasers,” the recreational legislation states.

In Alaska, participation in the medical pot program decreased by nearly two-thirds when recreational use was legalized. Participation also dropped in Washington, where the medical and recreational programs were combined, a move that has since faced pushback from lawmakers and through citizen initiatives, Mangone said.

Illinois will likely see a drop-off in medical marijuana use, but Mangone said he doesn’t anticipate it being as significant as in some other states, in part because the laws here afford medical users some privileges recreational users won’t have.

“I think the intent in Illinois is to maintain a strong medical program and continue to serve the patients that it currently serves, as well as welcoming new patients,” Mangone said.

Under the medical cannabis pilot program in Illinois, qualifying patients pay a $100 fee for a one-year registry card, $200 for a two-year card or $250 for a three-year card. Those fees can be reduced for veterans and those on disability.

img_0773-1When recreational use becomes available, some medical users no longer find their cardholder fees worthwhile, or find easier access to cannabis outside of the medical program, Mangone said.

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Even in states like Nevada, which saw a steep participation drop-off in the medical marijuana program after recreational sales began in 2017 — close to 40 percent — the medical program remains viable, Mangone said.

“There are a lot of producers who got into this industry from a compassionate care angle, and they want to stay in the medical space and don’t have any interest in moving into the adult-use model,” Mangone said.

Illinois’ medical marijuana bill allows participants to grow their own cannabis. An earlier bill proposal included a limited allowance for home grow for recreational users, too, but that became a sticking point in the debate and was ultimately removed by the bill sponsors to garner broader support for the measure. Certified medical marijuana patients will be able to grow up to five plants at home.

“I think Illinois did this the right way,” Mangone said. “It still really incentivizes patients who need to participate in this program with the appropriate incentives.”

It also provides an opportunity for people in the state who would have qualified for the pilot program under statute, but have been unable to access medical cannabis because of cost, a doctor who refused to prescribe or some other factor.

“Anybody who’s really suffering should not be prohibited access to this product,” Morgan said.

Rep. Celina Villanueva’s mother was diagnosed with cancer last August. Her mother, who is undergoing chemotherapy, expressed interest in using medical cannabis for pain management, but hasn’t been able to participate because she wasn’t able to find a doctor at the facility where she receives treatment to sign off, Villanueva said.

“She’s one of many people throughout this state and one of many people throughout this country that could not find relief within the cannabis program,” said Villanueva, one of the sponsors of the recreational cannabis bill. “And that’s something that I carry with me every single day. I did this for her. And for those people that unfortunately fall outside of that program that don’t want to be on opioids in order to help the symptoms of their diseases.”

 

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