{"id":572,"date":"2019-05-07T16:12:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T20:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/?p=572"},"modified":"2019-05-07T16:12:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T20:12:35","slug":"green-light-for-the-sunshine-state-florida-legislature-approves-sweeping-changes-to-hemp-cbd-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/2019\/05\/07\/green-light-for-the-sunshine-state-florida-legislature-approves-sweeping-changes-to-hemp-cbd-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Light for the Sunshine State: Florida Legislature Approves Sweeping Changes to Hemp, CBD Regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 3, 2019, the Florida legislature passed\u00a0<a title=\"Florida Senate Bill 1020\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flsenate.gov\/Session\/Bill\/2019\/1020\/BillText\/e2\/PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SB 1020<\/a>, creating the state hemp program and authorizing the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) to enact regulations to govern the program. The bill, first filed in the Florida Senate on February 13, 2019, passed with overwhelming support; the final version passed by a margin of 39-0 in the Senate after passing 112-1 in the House. Governor Ron DeSantis has until May 18, 2019, to veto the bill or it will automatically become law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe historic vote,\u201d\u00a0<a title=\"Statement by Commissioner Nikki Fried on Florida Hemp Bill Passage\" href=\"https:\/\/www.freshfromflorida.com\/News-Events\/Press-Releases\/2019-Press-Releases\/Statement-by-Commissioner-Nikki-Fried-on-Florida-Hemp-Bill-Passage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to<\/a>\u00a0FDACS Commissioner Nicole Fried, is in response to the federal 2018 Farm Bill, which \u201cremoved the prohibitions on industrial hemp in place since 1937 and authorized states to create hemp programs.\u201d\u00a0<i>Id.<\/i>\u00a0If SB 1020 becomes law, it will fundamentally alter the treatment of hemp and hemp extracts, including cannabidiol (CBD) products, under Florida law.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/green_light_sunshine_state_florida_legislature_approves_sweeping_changes_hemp_cbd_0519.html\">View the full <em>Alert<\/em> on the Duane Morris LLP website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 3, 2019, the Florida legislature passed\u00a0SB 1020, creating the state hemp program and authorizing the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) to enact regulations to govern the program. The bill, first filed in the Florida Senate on February 13, 2019, passed with overwhelming support; the final version passed by a margin &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/2019\/05\/07\/green-light-for-the-sunshine-state-florida-legislature-approves-sweeping-changes-to-hemp-cbd-regulation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Green Light for the Sunshine State: Florida Legislature Approves Sweeping Changes to Hemp, CBD Regulation&#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":[1],"tags":[473,147,63,148,485,179,172,447,484,483],"ppma_author":[714],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2018-farm-bill","tag-cannabidiol","tag-cannabis","tag-cbd","tag-florida","tag-florida-cannabis","tag-hemp","tag-hemp-derived-cbd","tag-joe-pangaro","tag-justin-stern"],"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","author_category":"1","last_name":"Sullivan","first_name":"Margaret","job_title":"","user_url":"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","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=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/cannabis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}