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Oregon hemp suppliers wind down ahead of the December 11 federal hemp deadline; four senators ask DOJ to investigate criminal networks in cannabis and hemp; Virginia surveys medical patients ahead of its adult-use launch. For general information only — not legal advice.
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This is the New Realm Compliance Brief, Volume One, Edition Fifty-Three, for Monday, October Fifth.
Our top story: Oregon hemp businesses say the federal restrictions on hemp-derived THC products enacted last year are forcing them to wind down ahead of the law's effective date. Marijuana Moment reports that Oregon CBD, a major hemp seed supplier, plans to close by the end of the month. Under the new federal definition, finished hemp products containing more than four tenths of a milligram of total THC per container lose their federal hemp status on December eleventh — a deadline Congress moved back from November twelfth in September's continuing resolution. Co-owner Seth Crawford said the law essentially ends the hemp industry.
In federal news, four Republican senators — Tom Cotton, Susan Collins, Pete Ricketts, and Ted Budd — asked Attorney General Todd Blanche to investigate the role of Chinese transnational criminal organizations in United States cannabis and hemp markets. The senators wrote that criminal networks are exploiting vulnerabilities in federal law.
Around the states: Virginia's Cannabis Control Authority launched a survey of medical cannabis patients, including questions about how purchasing will change when adult-use retail launches in July of twenty twenty-seven. Responses are due October sixteenth. North Carolina's Advisory Council on Cannabis weighed draft recommendations that would prohibit THC consumption in public places, with final recommendations due to Governor Josh Stein by December thirty-first. And Pennsylvania's Liquor Control Board added a production-reporting question to license renewals for breweries, brewpubs, wineries, and distilleries.
On the radar: October twelfth is the sixty-day WARN Act notice deadline for larger hemp employers planning closures tied to the federal change. And Virginia's preliminary feedback window on draft adult-use retail rules opens late this month, with license applications opening February first.
Full details and source links are in today's email. This update is for general information only — it is not legal advice.