Curriculum:
- CBD Introduction
- Industrial Hemp, CBD, and the 2018 Farm Bill
- Regulatory Landscape for Hemp and CBD
- CBD Extraction and Delivery Methods
- Quality and Compliance in the CBD Product Market
- Parallel Evolution of CBD and High-THC Cannabis Markets
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the difference between industrial hemp and high-THC cannabis and the rising popularity of hemp-derived CBD.
- Understand the current regulatory landscape for industrial hemp and hemp-derived CBD products.
- Recognize the differences between cannabinoid isolates, distillates, and full-spectrum extracts.
- Explore strategies to minimize the risk of operating a hemp and/or CBD business under changing policy and market conditions.
- Hemp is cannabis and cannabis is hemp. Identify parallels between the hemp and high-THC cannabis markets and speculate on how each will influence the other.
