Congress threw states a curveball when it legalized CBD
Federal regulators’ murky response to the rapid legalization of the hemp extract CBD has created a patchwork of state responses — ranging from broadly permissive to raids on retailers and seizures of trailers loaded with lucrative leaf.
— ranging from pet food to skin oils touted as salves for all sorts of ailments — had an impact on efforts to research and develop cannabis-based medicines. But companies that want to use CBD as medicine countered thatConfusion about the status of CBD dates back to December, when Congress’s farm bill threw a curve ball at regulators and state officials. It legalized hemp production nationwide, and with it the plant’s most profitable byproduct, the non-intoxicating drug cannibidiol, or CBD.
“State legislators and policymakers are responding to the ground truth in their own backyards and doing a range of things,” said Coleen Klasmeier, an attorney with Sidley Austin LLP who represents industry clients. “More needs to happen at the federal level before anyone can do anything long term.”
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