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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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Light Up, Hempsters! Or Not?

 — 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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Florida “Hemp Bill” has Governor Signature. The “Hempen Peninsula” will “Crackdown On Products outside Sunshine States’ New Standards”.

Gov. Ron DeSantis closed out Tuesday signing legislation authorizing a state hemp program.

SB 1020, which creates an industrial hemp program under the auspices of the Department of Agriculture, cleared the Senate and House by unanimous votes this Session.

The bill, sponsored by Senate Appropriations Chairman Rob Bradley, would allow the Department to administer regulations regarding licensing and bcultivation of hemp, the THC-deficient cousin of marijuana.

The 2018 federal Farm Bill allows states to establish hemp programs such as the one contemplated in current legislation, as the federal rulemaking process could take years. Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried believes hemp could be the boost the state’s farm sector and rural areas need.

“Tonight’s hemp bill signing marks a transformation in Florida, and a critical step on the journey to creating a green industrial revolution, strengthening agriculture with an alternative crop of the future, and expanding access to safe, quality CBD products,” she said in a statement.

In February, Fried appointed Holly Bell as Florida’s first Director of Cannabis to oversee the department’s hemp program.

“For months, our Department has been developing rules and gathering public input, and we’re hitting the ground running to build a state hemp program that will be a model for the country. Florida has the potential to become the gold standard on hemp — our deep agricultural heritage, climate and resources, and farming infrastructure will make Florida a national leader in this emerging new economy.

“Congratulations to Sen. Bradley and Rep. Ralph Massullo (the House sponsor) for their hard work, diligence, and collaboration, and to the Legislature to helping move this across the finish line. Together, we will keep Florida growing.”

In addition to industry regulations, the bill also establishes a structure to ensure the purity and compliance of cultivated product for the protection of consumers.

Eyeing a “potentially lucrative future,” one “game changing” for the agricultural community, Bradley lauded this program as giving Florida a “head start against the rest of the country.”

“Put that effort on steroids,” Bradley urged on the Senate floor. “Give farmers an opportunity to reinvent efforts.”

A hemp bill “may be one of the most significant things we do this session,” Bradley added, allowing Florida “to become a hemp state.”

Indeed, with unanimous bipartisan support, the Sunshine State is on its way to becoming the hempen peninsula. The hemp legislation gives Fried more legal standing during her promised “crackdown” on hemp products outside the system.

Fried expects that crops will be planted this year. And not a moment too soon for a multi billion dollar industry!

Governor DeSantis remains against the Legalization of Recreational use of Marijuana and believes current legislation will benefit Our State.

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Seniors on Board with CBD (THC Free) Benefits – Verses Pharmaceutical Meds.

As more and more people embrace CBD, replacing their pharmaceutical medications with it in their medicine cabinet, the senior citizens among us are also benefitting from its medicinal effects.

CBD is short for Cannabidiol, one of the compounds in cannabis and hemp that is alleged to have medicinal value. People who want to feel calm, need pain relief, or help to sleep, use CBD. When most people think of cannabis, they think about getting high, but that’s down to another compound in the plant called THC. However, these days, cannabis compounds are isolated and extracted separately, meaning one can choose the great medicinal effects of cannabis but without the stoned sensations and disorientation.

A recent Remedy Review study of 1000 people aged 55 and over who used CBD came back with some interesting results. While the study found that only 9 percent of the seniors surveyed use CBD, at least 51 percent of that 9 percent reported “improved quality of life” overall. The survey also looked at the preferred delivery method for CBD for seniors and found that CBD Oil Drops were the most popular.

54.4 percent of participants preferred taking CBD drops on the tongue. 21.1 percent preferred to put those drops in their morning coffee or other beverage. While another 21.1 percent like to take their CBD in an edible form such as CBD gummies. 15.6 percent favored CDB Capsuless and pills. And just 10 percent of the people surveyed said they liked to smoke or vaporize CBD.

The statistics on the reasons why seniors take CBD was also interesting. 42 percent said they took CBD for inflammation. Just around 41 percent said they took CDB to help with chronic pain. 38.6 percent use it to try and get a good night’s sleep. And 31.8 percent said they use CBD for arthritis pain. Interestingly, around 61 percent of the seniors who tried CBD said it helped to ease pain, while about 46 percent said it aided them with a good night’s sleep.

Most seniors prefer to take CBD oil under the tongue

This study, while not conclusive in any way, does show that CBD could be a great option for seniors, and could cut out some of the toxic pharmaceutical medications from their daily regime. As we get older, many people have the need for multiple regular medications.

Some seniors need to take pain killers including opioids regularly, while others will also need to take pills for blood pressure, inflammation, insomnia, and even anxiety. CBD is organic and non-toxic; it’s also non-addictive and carries no dangerous side effects. It’s also an excellent option for senior citizens as it is readily available and comes in many different, easy-to-use forms and delivery systems.

CBD is thought to help with a number of age-related issues like pain and insomnia. It’s also used as a non-toxic and effective stress reliever that can be used much like a Rescue Remedy. Those over the age of 60 can tell you a thing or two about pain and what that’s like to contend with on a daily basis.

Research shows that roughly 50 percent of seniors and the elderly live alone, with around 80 percent of those in care homes suffering from daily pain. Pain in the elderly is severely undertreated these days, and that just compounds an already existing issue. The constant pain also leads many seniors down other paths such as depression, anxiety, and mobility problem.

Tragically, many older people don’t even report pain to their doctor as they just assume it’s part and parcel of the aging process. That means that many older adults just suffer in silence and get depressed as their quality of life plummets. That’s why CBD is such a great option for seniors and is well worth trying just in case it does the trick.

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