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This article was originally published on Hoban Law Group, and appears here with permission. As the hemp industry has come to understand by now, marketing hemp and/or CBD products with improper and unsubstantiated “disease” claims in the labeling violates a number of federal regulations. Since about 2015, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) and/or U.S. Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has issued at least 70+ warning letters to businesses for marketing hemp products with il...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On January 18, 2021, President Biden appointed Federal Trade Commissioner Rohit Chopra to direct the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).  The CFPB was created through the Dodd-Frank Act in 2010 and began to operate in 2011.  Its jurisdiction largely overlaps that of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) but also encompasses financial institutions, which the FTC does not regulate. The CFPB’s aggressive tactics under Obama-era...