Industrial Hemp Legal…. CBD? Beware The Grey.

Here’s the core of the Leafly piece and it’s really worth reading all of it as they make some pertinent points.
Not…Quite…Legal…Yet
Sharma’s comments rest on the assumption that the legalization of hemp automatically means the legalization of hemp-derived CBD. But all is not legal rainbows and unicorns for CBD producers just yet.
The DEA, for one, still considers CBD to be a Schedule I controlled substance.
A DEA clarification issued in March 2016, in response to a petition filed by Hemp Industries Association and others about marijuana, indicated that some CBD is still a Schedule I substance:
“As the scientific literature indicates, cannabinoids, such as tetrahydrocannabinols (THC), cannabinols (CBN) and cannabidiols (CBD), are found in the parts of the cannabis plant that fall within the CSA definition of marijuana, such as the flowering tops, resin, and leave. According to the scientific literature, cannabinoids are not found in the parts of the cannabis plant that are excluded from the CSA definition of marijuana.” The CSA defines marijuana as “all parts of the plant Cannabis sativa L., whether growing or not; the seeds thereof; the resin extracted from any part of such plant; and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of such plant, its seeds or resin.”
But the clarification did say that trace amounts of CBD, if derived from stalks or seeds, were legal.
Full article at https://www.leafly.com/news/politics/does-the-farm-bill-legalize-cbd-too-not-exactly


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