The campaign to protect in-process hemp extract from the onerous regulatory reach of the Drug Enforcement Administration ramped up another notch.
Two members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to keep DEA out of the hemp business.
At issue is DEA’s controversial interim final rule, issued Aug. 20, 2020, that criminalized in-process hemp extract when it temporarily exceeds the 0.3% level of delta-9 THC.
Reps. David Scott and Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. said in the letter that the 2018 Farm Bill vested regulatory authority to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, not the DEA.
This drug gets you high and is legal across the country
Matt Richtel, New York Times
March 1, 2021
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