“With marijuana and hemp leaders working together toward a shared vision of more effective federal policy, the path ahead is brighter for the entire cannabinoid marketplace.”
By Adam Rosenberg, National Cannabis Industry Association and Eric Berlin, Dentons
Last fall, we wrote that marijuana and hemp businesses were working together as a group informally called the “Commission” to find areas of substantial agreement and that collaboration was going better than expected.
Today, we share the first results of those discussions.
The effort has brought together leaders from many of the most prominent marijuana and hemp industry and advocacy groups in the United States, representing thousands of businesses across marijuana, intoxicating hemp, non-intoxicating hemp and cannabinoid innovation.
The conversation continues to mature as policymakers at both the state and federal levels confront the urgent question of how to build a regulatory framework that reflects the realities of today’s cannabinoid marketplace and avoids the confusion created by arbitrary legal divisions.
One of the quiet casualties of cannabis reform has been how THC itself is regulated. Current law artificially distinguishes “hemp” and “marijuana” based on factors like plant genetics and THC concentration of the source material, creating two different legal universes for a singular
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