Just as the CBD industry was hoping to start work next month on the cannabinoid’s place in food, drugs and cosmetics, the head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration chief is resigning.
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, who told Congress last week that CBD can’t be added to consumer products, is leaving office in April, according to The Washington Post.
An exact date for that meeting wasn’t announced, so Gottlieb’s apparent resignation leave hemp and CBD entrepreneurs in the dark about when a review might take place.
The 2018 Farm Bill removed hemp and hemp-derived CBD from the U.S. Controlled Substances Act, but it also stipulated that the FDA would retain control over how hemp products, including CBD, could be added to food, drugs and cosmetics.
Gottlieb said in December that hemp’s new legal status makes CBD rules “even more important” and that CBD rules would be reviewed “in the near future.”
Several members of Congress pressed him to get going on the rules, leading to his promise to schedule hearings in April.
U.S. cannabis companies willing to work at it will find ample opportunities to raise money.
So CBD is illegal and oxycontin is OK.
Makes sense to me!
I’ve been trying to open a hemp infused business in Florida but the Dept of Agriculture won’t sign off of the venders license because they say it’s illegal