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Commercial CBD Products sell well, break law

The CBD market for tinctures, oils and food additives is worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and it’s projected to surpass $1 billion in the USA alone by 2020. Yet CBD is illegal under the federal 1970 Controlled…

Cannabis in USA 2014-2018

Brief summary of some key moments: By way of introduction and background: January 2000 – According to USDA’s report “Industrial Hemp in the United States”: Cannabis sativa L has a high psychoactive resin content (THC around 3-15), while industrial hemp…

Academic Researchers Stonewalled

There are many academics studying the cultivation of Cannabis plants, but two years after the US Drug Enforcement Administration began accepting requests to grow marijuana for federally approved research, none have been answered, leaving more than two dozen applicants…