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The attorney says the government “never contemplated naturally occurring compounds that could also be produced from other naturally occurring compounds.”
Patrick Williams May 24, 2021
Delta-8 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), patenting psychedelics and certificates of analysis: these are some of the hot topics North Carolina and Oregon-licensed attorney Rod Kight focuses on at his law practice.
Hemp Grower caught up with the Kight Law Office principal and founder to discuss delta-8 THC, the contentious yet lucrative psychoactive cannabinoid that is prompting companies to produce it and states to ban it. Since Hemp Grower published a piece April 23 on the first 12 states to implement bans on delta-8 THC, New York, Vermont and Washington have also banned it.
While Kight has outlined a legal theory that hemp-derived delta-8 THC is not a U.S. Schedule I substance, he says dealing with the cannabinoid is still risky, and the market is becoming saturated.