As disagreements and malfeasance related to CBD and seed spill over to court rooms, the timing is in sync with hemp’s rollicking rise, describes Jesse Mondry, an attorney with Harris Sliwoski, and head of the firm’s Portland litigation team. “Hemp litigation has increased for the past couple of months and it will continue to rise, at least for a few more months, because this is the first crop under the 2018 farm bill,” Mondry explains.