This episode covers the July 27th House Oversight Committee within the Health Care and Financial Services Subcommittee titled “Hemp in the Modern World: The Yearslong Wait for FDA Action”. The group also discusses new data from analyzing Delta-8-THC products on the market. 

Our resident GMP and standards expert, David Vaillencourt, moderates this episode.  We’re also joined by special guest Gillian Schauer, PhD, who testified before the House Oversight Committee.  Dr. Schauer is the Executive Director of the Cannabis Regulators Association (CANNRA), a non-partisan association of government agencies that regulate cannabis and hemp across 45 states and US territories.  Prior to her leadership at CANNRA, she spent more than a decade working with federal agencies - including the CDC and NIH on cannabis related policy, research, and public health. 

As usual, HLI co-hosts Jahan Marcu, PhD and Nigam B. Arora, PhD round out the group discussion. If you are a new listener, Dr. Arora advises multistate and multinational cannabis companies as well as psychedelic manufacturers and venture capital firms on translating science into business decisions as the Co-Founder of Marcu & Arora.  Dr. Jahan Marcu, the other half of the Marcu & Arora leadership team, has been applying his knowledge on the endocannabinoid system for over 20 years - advising regulatory bodies, providing expert witness services in complex cannabinoid related cases, and has published dozens of articles on cannabinoids and psychedelics. 

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Group

David Vaillencourt, MSc (moderator)

Gillian Schauer, PhD

Jahan Marcu, PhD

Nigam B. Arora, PhD

Game Segment (5:00)

True or False - Cannabis News Headlines 

Regulatory News (20:40) 

July 27th House Oversight Committee - “Hemp in the Modern World: The Yearslong Wait for FDA Action”.  Congress asks interested parties for information about cannabidiol

Rapid Fire Science (46:40)

Isolation and Characterization of Impurities in Commercially Marketed Δ8-THC Products

Credits:

Cover art by Julia Boot. Podcast audio engineering by Joe Leonardo. Intro music by Buddha by Kontekst. Transition music by K. LOUK. Outro music by Bensounds.

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