Benton Bodamer, Taylor MacDonald, and Benjamin Sobczak recently authored “Cliffs Without Fences and Fences Without Cliffs: Exploring the Emerging Conflicts Between Quasi-Legal Intoxicating Hemp and Regulated State-Legal Cannabis” for the Ohio State Legal Studies Research Paper, No. 855, Drug Enforcement and Policy Center.
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Benton Bodamer, Taylor MacDonald, and Benjamin Sobczak recently authored “Cliffs Without Fences and Fences Without Cliffs: Exploring the Emerging Conflicts Between Quasi-Legal Intoxicating Hemp and Regulated State-Legal Cannabis” for the Ohio State Legal Studies Research Paper, No. 855, Drug Enforcement and Policy Center. The research paper discusses the current state of affairs and possible implications of forthcoming federal policy decisions, and highlighting the interest groups lobbying for legislative action. Additionally, they argue that these new proposed regulations do not represent a solution to the federal government’s decades-old inability to safely and predictably allow access to the cannabis plant with reasonable and logical safeguards. To read more, click here.
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