It is not a surprise that a new NC hemp bill, SB 265, is a “model” of sorts for how hemp should be regulated at the state level. North Carolina has always been a leader in hemp. Over the years, the state’s hemp-friendly laws and pro-hemp environment have resulted in NC being the home base for many of the world’s top hemp companies.

While Governor Newsom’s emergency hemp regulations had a devastating impact on brick-and-mortar hemp business operations in California, the new bill from State Sen. Weiner, SB 378, takes aim at online sales from out-of-state.

The biggest obstacle that hemp companies face is how to keep up with the ever-changing patchwork of state laws and regulations regarding hemp products. Kight Law has completely updated and revamped our popular 50 State Hemp Product Spreadsheet to be more comprehensive, more informative, and easier to read.

In our continuing series on international legal developments in cannabis law, Kight Law attorney Anthony Traurig discusses the rapidly changing legal landscape for HHC in the EU and beyond.

Unfortunately, driving hemp across the country continues to be a risky endeavor. This article is intended to provide information that may help reduce the risk of a hemp driver being pulled over, the product seized, and/or the driver getting arrested.

While there are well-documented synthetic pathways to the THCs isomerization is not synthetic, and delta-8 THC derived from hemp is not a synthetic compound.

In a landmark ruling, the New York Supreme Court delivered a decisive victory for hemp retailers. This decision sets an important precedent, sending a clear message to regulators and law enforcement that constitutional rights cannot be trampled in the name of enforcement.

A court in Tennessee issued an injunction temporarily pausing the implementation of certain hemp regulations in the state. The ruling prohibits the Department from regulating “mere hemp or raw hemp flower” and also from implementing concentration limits for THCA in hemp products.

Billionaire Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has been using his outsized influence to promote a bill, IL HB 4293, that will decimate the state’s hemp industry. In effect, HB 4293 will take away the hard-earned market for hemp products from the state’s hemp industry and give it to the state’s marijuana industry.