During their meeting, the Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sports (CSMAS) decided that the positive drug screen result threshold would be increased from 35 nanograms per milliliter to 150 nanograms per milliliter of THC. These changes were made effective immediately.
Europe might have started out slower than the US, but it’s sure picking up steam now. Malta legalized cultivation and use, with Luxembourg on the way to doing the same, and Germany is still looking to be the first regulated recreational market in the region. Who might steal this designation out from under it? Last […]
The new bill, the Hemp Advancement Act of 2022, was introduced on Tuesday, February 8, by Congresswoman Chellie Pingree. She clarified that the objective of this proposed measure is to improve the provisions in the 2018 Farm Bill and increase the flexibility of hemp growers and processors when producing these products. She added that these amendments would provide greater clarity to the existing laws.
The battle to raise the limit of THC allowed in hemp from .3% to 1% continues. The 2018 Farm Bill defined hemp as “[t]he plant species Cannabis sativa L. and any part of that plant . . . with a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of not more than 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis.” It