As the Hemp Law and the 'Interim Final Rule' (IFR) made its way to the desks of multiple agencies, each had it's own separate comment periods for FDA, USDA, and now, DEA. We submitted our comments to DEA, below. Comment Submitted Via Mail: October 19, 2020 Drug Enforcement Administration 8701 Morrissette Drive Springfield, VA 22152 (202) 598-2596 Re: Implementation of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 RIN 1117-AB53 / Docket No. DEA-500 Citation 85 FR 51639; Pages 5163

Upon the publishing of the Interim Final Rule (IFR), the USDA opened a Public Comment Period to solicit feedback from farmers and businesses. What they quickly learned was that the IFR had many issues with it. Clearly, the DEA had still worked themselves into the regulatory protocol, and there were very strict rules about testing, including that the labs had to be registered with DEA. At the time, very few labs had this registration, and the industry was barreling straight