• CBDs work so well that pharmaceutical companies are now looking to be approved by the FDA as medications.
• Because CBDs are investigated by pharmaceutical companies, the FDA has granted CBD status as “under investigation as a new drug.” The FDA deems a substance to be eligible for investigation as a new drug “if it is the subject of a new investigational investigation.”
• Because CBDs work well and have been cleared for drug investigations, the FDA is attempting to regulate them out of existence as dietary supplements. According to the FDA website: “The FDA has concluded that cannabidiol products are excluded from the definition of a dietary supplement. Under that provision, if a substance (such as cannabidiol) has been authorized for investigation as new drug has been made public. Products containing that substance are outside the definition of a dietary supplement.”
• Now the FDA has started sending warning letters to CBD manufacturers. In these claiming that they are in violation of FDA regulations because they are selling “adulterated products”. Adulterated with what, exactly? CBD, of course. The debate over the legal status of CBD hemp continues after the FDA sent eight warning letters to manufacturers of CBD dietary supplements and food products earlier this month,” Nutritional Outlook reports.

The new frontier of the smoker

In Italy everything is sold and at various prices, we are talking about 3 euros which can go up to 25 euros per gram. The legal market is really wide, you can find monoecious and dioecious industrial hemp inflorescences such as Futura 75, Carmagnola, Finola, Compolti etc. These varieties, depending on the genetics, can offer seedless flowers if the dioecious ones are selected. To grow hemp, you need to have a regular agricultural license and land. Even better if you have greenhouses to avoid the risk of pollination.

Tests

Before being sold, hemp must be subjected to severe tests to authenticate that it is free of active ingredients and the tolerated threshold is 0.2% of THC, however, as regards CBD, it has no limit for the percentage, in fact it I can find herbs with 16-18% CBD on the market.

Famous people like J-Ax have opened their shop in Milan, the “Mister Nice” Gue’ Pequeno has his own sachets and his ZCM brand. But behind the legality, as always, hides a speculative black market, false analyzes have been found declaring less than the quantity of THC permitted by law, herbs enriched with terpene extractions, and above all the trap to deceive the jurisdiction, in fact growing hemp is legal, but marijuana is not.

Many herbs that you will find in shops in Italy are declared as industrial hemp but in reality they are crosses of THC-free marihuana with a taste and smell similar to a Kush, Orange to Haze etc..

Why prefer a social club to a cannabis shop

Notions for more conscious consumption

It may be helpful for beginners to have a little knowledge of the effects that cannabis compounds can cause, so as to be more aware of what happens when they take cannabis. There are many cannabinoids produced by marijuana, but the best known, those found in greatest quantities are CBD and THC, with a molecular composition that is very similar but distant in terms.

THC, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, the active ingredient of marijuana which if inhaled or ingested can cause euphoria, relaxation, altered space-time perception, but also auditory, olfactory and visual alterations, anxiety, disorientation, tiredness, and stimulation of ‘appetite. In short, the typical effects experienced by those who use cannabinoids. THC, however, according to the study reduces the levels of a protein, beta amyloid, which is at the origin of Alzheimer’s. This protein, in fact, begins its destructive process by aggregating into clusters that alter communications between synapses in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients long before forming the characteristic plaques.