Honest follow-on to last week’s hemp news: on October 20, EIN Presswire carried a warning from Bill Polyniak, founder of Kentucky Cannabis Company and Bluegrass Hemp Oil — a participant in one of Kentucky’s six original industrial hemp pilot programs in 2014 — that the federal change scheduled for December 11 could affect full-spectrum CBD oils containing naturally occurring trace amounts of THC. Under the law as described in the release, finished hemp-derived cannabinoid products above 0.4 milligrams per container of combined total THC and specified THC-like cannabinoids fall outside the federal definition of hemp from December 11, with certain other cannabinoid exclusions taking effect November 12; Polyniak’s argument is that extracting what the plant naturally produces is different from chemically converting isolated CBD into intoxicating cannabinoids. We make no health claims and take no side here — we simply note, again, that none of this touches the fiber side Sacred Hemp stands on. Potency caps don’t apply to cloth: the prAna Cozy Up Long Sleeve Crew (a hemp blend that starts broken-in), the Awaken Hoodie in hemp-and-organic-cotton fleece made to order in small batches, and the Natural Rhythm Short Sleeve Crew (a breathable hemp-blend staple). Check the hemp content on the label — blends are fine, as long as the label says so — and wear the part of the plant no deadline is arguing about.
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