For quite a long while, even as the gov cracked down on weed use (there were some very prominent cases involving celebrities — one shouldn’t ignore how much the gov’s anti-drug campaigns are intertwined with campaigns against celebrity culture, which is a very important context), CBD products were legal and were in fact a booming industry of sorts. But in 2021 they formally banned the production and import (though not use) of CBD products.
The rationale given was that too many CBD products are found to have more than trace amounts of THC and the government thinks it’s too prone to abuse (abuse in the sense that companies will make “CBD” products that are actually high in THC, etc.)
For quite a long while, even as the gov cracked down on weed use (there were some very prominent cases involving celebrities — one shouldn’t ignore how much the gov’s anti-drug campaigns are intertwined with campaigns against celebrity culture, which is a very important context), CBD products were legal and were in fact a booming industry of sorts. But in 2021 they formally banned the production and import (though not use) of CBD products.
Why? CBD has no mental or addicting effects as far as I know.
The rationale given was that too many CBD products are found to have more than trace amounts of THC and the government thinks it’s too prone to abuse (abuse in the sense that companies will make “CBD” products that are actually high in THC, etc.)