FDA Decision On CBD Use Could Run Up Against Chicken Or Egg Question

Speakers at FDA's first-ever public hearing on using cannabis-derived ingredients in products subject to its oversight asked agency officials to look back further than history of drug research with cannabinoids to earlier than the origin of its regulations as it considers its decision. "CBD is a constituent inherent in hemp which has been marketed and used at least since the Civil War," says cannabis business attorney Rob Kight.