CBD: Legal status and clinical practice issues
By Beth Anne Jackson and Elizabeth Jepson, Brown & Fortunato, P.C. With the passage of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (Farm Bill) in December 2018, Congress established a new category of cannabis: hemp, which is defined as cannabis with 0.3 percent or less concentration of compound delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). Further, the Farm Bill specified that the definition of the term “marihuana” under the Controlled Substance Act does not include “hemp.” Many assumed that the...