CBD: Members of the fact-finding mission share their incomprehension

In a press release published last Friday, MPs Caroline Janvier, Ludovic Mendès and Jean-Baptiste Moreau, who are also members of the cannabis information mission, expressed their incomprehension about the Matignon's position on CBD.

The Prime Minister's Office is expected to make the final decision, as Newsweed revealed, The French government's proposal to authorize the processing of hemp flowers for extraction purposes only, with no possibility of marketing French hemp flowers in stores. CBD-based by-products (oils, resins, concentrates, candies, etc.) would be authorized, with a limit of 0.2% THC in the finished product. Decisions that would support Interchanvre/UIVEC's position but would hurt CBD chains and independent stores, while closing many outlets for French hemp growers.

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These announcements «are of great concern to the rapporteurs of the parliamentary information mission» who have also issued a report and regulatory avenues for «wellness hemp» last February «with the aim of promoting a French CBD industry». They wonder The report's recommendations have not yet been taken into account in ministerial decisions on CBD regulation«.

They also point out that France was condemned by the Court of Justice of the European Union in the’Kanavape ruling which confirmed in particular that it could not prohibit the free circulation of goods and trade in products sold elsewhere in Europe.

The deputies «warn once again that this new regulation will favor industrial production to the detriment of artisanal French producers (who do not have extraction techniques that allow them to contain only a very low dose of THC (<0.2%)) and will de facto place them in a situation of unfair competition, insofar as the CJEU ruling considered that a state could not prohibit the consumption of CBD products produced in other EU countries.»