Cannabis—and the devil’s cannabinoid, THC—are all the rage, but hemp and CBD have recently been gaining just as much national attention.
The passage of the 2018 Farm Bill made hemp farming legal, which led many to assume that hemp, and the CBD that can be processed from it, would immediately be free from the stigma and regulations we impose on THC. Instead, we’ve seen a baffling mix of seizures and arrests for those producing and possessing CBD products, thanks to outdated rules from federal regulatory agencies.
In an article from March, the National Law Review clarified the hemp- and CBD-related parts of the Farm Bill: “Any cannabis plant or product that contains more than 0.3 percent THC will still be considered marijuana under federal law.” With such a classification, those products then become subject to individual states’ laws regarding cannabis and can’t leave the state where they’re produced.