Cultivating Evidence-Based Pathways for Cannabis Product Development: Implications

for Consumer Protection

As of 2018, with the approval of the Farm Bill, medical CBD with a THC level lower
than 0.3% was legalized. However, due to varying State laws, companies have been able to
produce products containing CBD. These unapproved products have been met with meer
warnings by the FDA and allowed to remain for sale. Four proposed solutions to protect
consumers are offered by the authors of this article in the American Business Journal. Each
resolution calls for the FDA to have more influence over state markets to ensure consumer
safety. The audience for this article is CBD companies, CBD consumers, and people interested in
how the Federal Government addresses new drugs. For more reading on governmental response
to cannabis in the US and worldwide, read REEFER REFERENDUM: COMPARING
MARIJUANA LAWS ACROSS THE GLOBE(2021). (M.A.)
Walton, A. L., Kellis, K., Tankersley, W. E., & Patel, R. S. (2020). Cultivating Evidence‐
Based Pathways for Cannabis Product Development: Implications for Consumer Protection†.
American Business Law Journal, 57(4), 773–825.
https://doi-org.lib-proxy.fullerton.edu/10.1111/ablj.12173

Confronting Cannabis: Legalization on Native Nation Lands and the Impacts of

Differential Federal Enforcement
As states change their laws on cannabis, Native Nations are making these same decisions.
This choice allows Native Nations to grow their independent economies. Growth for Native
Nations could mean less reliance on the Federal government and more respect as separate entities
within the American continent. However, the DEA has targeted Nations residing in legal states
for unprompted raids resulting in financial loss for native businesses. Unphased, they move on;
for example, The Puyallup Tribe of Indians in Washington is at the forefront of cannabis
research with Medicine Creek Analytics. The target audience for this article is Native
Americans, social justice advocates, and people interested in Native Nations. For more reading
on how drugs affect minority groups, Neighborhood and individual factors in marijuana and
other illicit drug use in a sample of low-income women expands on the topic. (M.A.)
LEWIS, C. (2019). Confronting Cannabis: Legalization on Native Nation Lands and the
Impacts of Differential Federal Enforcement. American Indian Quarterly, 43(4), 408–438.
https://doi.org/10.5250/amerindiquar.43.4.0408