Actually, the Farm Bill should have precisely the opposite result, making it legal, then having removed it from DEA’s jurisdiction and into the FDA’s. But the limited study involving the highly concentrated form of CBD—Epidiolex—showing it to be so highly effective against Dravet Syndrome & another rare refractory form of childhood epilepsy that the FDA greenlit it to be prescribed for these diseases—has given the FDA pause. The FDA (and, no doubt, the pharmaceutical industry, sensing profit potential), after suggestions from various states’ health & law enforcement agencies, is considering soliciting applications for large-scale trials: pre-clinical and then multi-phase controlled double-blind studies. The desired end result? Reclassifying it as a drug—whether by prescription-only or restricting its OTC sales to patentable proprietary formulations. (Sort of analogous to how aspirin was derived from willow bark and patented 150 years ago).

Might there be some sort of connection between drug industry lobbyists and those in charge of appointing the FDA powers-that-be? Ya think?
Also, it visually (and olfactorily) resembles marijuana flower; only a lab assay can prove the difference. Imagine the potential for state & local law enforcement to profit by arresting those possessing CBD flower—the expense & time involved in the process of having to demonstrate the difference might induce defendants to throw in the towel and agree to cough up “administrative fees” & court costs in return for dismissing the charges &/or deferring prosecution. (If you think I’m being cynical, I know several suburbs of Chicago whose main source of revenue is fines generated by speed traps and deliberately misleading “protected” right turn lanes with poorly visible “no right turn on red” signs—cough—Evergreen Park—cough).



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