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.

On his panel at AIHEF in Thailand, attorney Anthony Traurig discussed developments in international cannabis law and highlighted the ways that Kight Law is able to assist companies looking to expand their business internationally.

Killing THCa will end the cannabis Golden Age, will set cannabis reform back in a way that may take decades to recover from, will push billions of dollars of cannabis back onto the black market, and will restrict access to millions of people. Let’s not do that.