{"id":1585,"date":"2024-06-19T16:40:45","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T20:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2025-02-25T16:59:02","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T20:59:02","slug":"congress-could-redefine-hemp-to-exclude-intoxicating-substances-in-upcoming-farm-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/2024\/06\/19\/congress-could-redefine-hemp-to-exclude-intoxicating-substances-in-upcoming-farm-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Could Redefine Hemp to Exclude Intoxicating Substances in Upcoming Farm Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are countless strains of the plant\u00a0<i>Cannabis sativa L<\/i>. Depending on the strain, the plant will contain a range of different chemicals called cannabinoids. New cannabinoids are still being discovered. Some of those, such as delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (D-9 THC), can cause psychoactive effects, while others such as cannabidiol (CBD) do not cause psychoactive effects. Nonpsychoactive cannabinoids like CBD can be chemically altered to become substances, such as delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol (D-8 THC), that cause psychoactive effects.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Congress passed a Farm Bill that defined \u201chemp\u201d as:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">[T]he plant Cannabis sativa L. and any part of that plant, including the seeds thereof and all derivatives, extracts, cannabinoids, isomers, acids, salts, and salts of isomers, whether growing or not, with a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of not more than 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full\u00a0<em>Alert<\/em> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/us_house_considers_redefining_hemp_exclude_intoxicating_substances_0624.html\">Duane Morris LLP website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are countless strains of the plant\u00a0Cannabis sativa L. Depending on the strain, the plant will contain a range of different chemicals called cannabinoids. New cannabinoids are still being discovered. Some of those, such as delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (D-9 THC), can cause psychoactive effects, while others such as cannabidiol (CBD) do not cause psychoactive effects. Nonpsychoactive &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/2024\/06\/19\/congress-could-redefine-hemp-to-exclude-intoxicating-substances-in-upcoming-farm-bill\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Congress Could Redefine Hemp to Exclude Intoxicating Substances in Upcoming Farm Bill&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[473,67,987,172,1034],"ppma_author":[714],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-2018-farm-bill","tag-congress","tag-delta-8","tag-hemp","tag-hemp-synthesized-intoxicants"],"authors":[{"term_id":714,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}