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“Absolute Confusion:” A New DEA Rule Worries CBD Businesses

By Alex Halperin
09/07/2020 06:15 PM GMT-0700
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A new U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) interim rule about CBD and hemp manufacturing has sown distress and confusion in the federally legal industry.

Operators say the rule makes it effectively impossible to produce CBD products legally. On his blog, North Carolina cannabis lawyer Rod Kight wrote that the new rule “threatens to destroy” the industry.

The federal government considers cannabis plants and products containing less than 0.3% THC . . .

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