[rubyn00bie]

As the article says, there's nothing really new here. It's more so just making it formal instead of letting people know by having the DEA knock down their door to find out.

From the article:

"There is no major change in law brought about by the Register item. Rather, it serves to clarify and reinforce the DEA’s position on all cannabis extracts, including CBD oil."

I was shocked people were selling CBD oils thinking it was okay; that's the only news here for me.

Disclaimer: I think marijuana is great and am from a state where it's blissfully legal ;)

[DennisP]

That may be the DEA's consistent position but whether it's a lawful position is in dispute. Also from the article:

Robert Hoban, a Colorado cannabis attorney and adjunct professor of law at the University of Denver, raised the notion that the rule itself may not be lawful. “This action is beyond the DEA’s authority,” Hoban told Leafly in an interview late this afternoon. “The DEA can only carry out the law, they cannot create it. Here they’re purporting to create an entirely new category called ‘marijuana extracts,’ and by doing so wrest control over all cannabinoids. They want to call all cannabinoids illegal. But they don’t have the authority to do that.”

[steve-howard]

CBD has absolutely no recreational appeal, so if you followed intuition rather than calling a lawyer it would make sense that it didn't fall under rules that consider marijuana a drug with a high potential for abuse.

That said, I'd hope anyone extracting and selling the stuff as a business would do their due diligence.

[rubyn00bie]

Mostly for clarification, I was thinking as a government entity which classifies marijuana as a schedule 1 offense and turns public health issues into criminal ones.