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The arrival of cannabis in Colorado since legalization in 2012 has helped foster a more open, honest dialogue surrounding the potential of THC and CBD. While there is still much to unearth regarding marijuana, legalization in Colorado has enabled the substance to overcome many of its most damaging misconceptions. Therefore, to truly understand cannabis, it is important to start at the heart of the plant. There is a lot of science behind cannabis that unfortunately makes the subject convoluted, especially when experts start using jargon like “hemp” and “Cannabidiol”. In rea...

This week we talk to Courtney Moran LL.M., chief legislative strategist at Agricultural Hemp Solutions, a group that is lobbying Congress to secure a science-based legal hemp concentration limit of 1% THC in the definition of hemp. Moran has been active in hemp policy for nearly a decade and was part of the team with Senator Mitch McConnell that drafted the original hemp language in the 2018 Farm Bill. She says there was much discussion then about the arbitrary nature of the .3% THC limit, but that now is the time to raise the limit to 1% for the sake of the farmer and the success of the indu...