Regulating CBD As Drug Will ‘Kill The Hemp Sector’, Says EU Industry

European Industrial Hemp Association warns regulating CBD supplements as drugs will see the EU fall behind other markets such as the US and fuel the development of an unregulated black market. 

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Reports that the European Commission is leaning towards regulating CBD food products as drugs have incensed the European Industrial Hemp Association, which is warning the future of the sector is at stake.

The EIHA – which represents hemp farmers, producers and traders – says the Commission’s apparent U-turn on regulating hemp-derived CBD as a novel food goes against “all reason, the

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