Compliance
The rules, in plain English.
Wholesale hemp lives and dies on paperwork. Here is the federal definition today, what changes on December 11, 2026, and exactly how this desk checks a lab report before a lot is ever offered.
The definition today
Hemp means at or under 0.3% delta-9 THC, dry weight.
Since the 2018 Farm Bill, that single number has been the federal line that defines hemp. Every lot this desk handles carries a current certificate of analysis — a COA — from an ISO 17025 lab showing where it stands against that line, plus its CBD or CBG potency.
December 11, 2026
The measuring stick changes to total THC.
A 2025 federal law (P.L. 119-37) rewrites the definition, and the September 2026 budget bill (P.L. 119-103) set its effective date at December 11, 2026. From that date the 0.3% limit applies to total THC: delta-9 THC plus 0.877 × THCA, the acid form that converts to delta-9 when heated. Flower that reads low on delta-9 but high on THCA can land over the line once the acid form is counted.
What that means for supply
Flower that passes only on delta-9 has a date on it. Genetics bred for CBD or CBG read low on both numbers, so they pass today's test and December's alike.
What this desk does about it
Meridian brokers compliant flower and biomass only. Every lab report is read on total THC — delta-9 plus THCA — before a lot is shown. That is the plant-level test. The same law also caps THC per container in finished hemp products sold to consumers; what that means for a retail line is a question for the buyer's attorney, not for a broker.
Lab-report verification
A PDF is easy to edit. A lab's own records are not.
Doctored COAs are the industry's oldest trick, so this desk never takes the PDF at face value. Every lab report is confirmed with the lab before a lot is offered:
1 · Call the lab
I call the lab that issued the report and give them the report number. They pull it from their own system.
2 · Compare at the source
The lab reads the numbers back: total THC, CBD or CBG, date, sample ID, batch. They must match the PDF. A mismatch and the lot is not shown, no discussion.
3 · Check the lab itself
The lab must hold ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation. A perfect report from an unaccredited lab is worth nothing.
4 · One report, one lot
The report must cover the batch that ships. A lot with a newer batch needs its own report before any of it is shown.
The fine print
Straight answers, not legal advice.
State rules differ — some states restrict smokable hemp flower regardless of federal law. I ask where a lot lands before I show it, and there are states I don't place into. This page explains how Meridian operates; it is not legal advice, and buyers and sellers remain responsible for compliance in their own jurisdictions. Wholesale / B2B only.
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