.LATimesSkelton asks: Why does California’s public health department treat CBD like poison?
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell — the nation’s second most powerful Republican — and California’s Democratic state legislators completely agree on one thing: Marijuana’s cousin hemp should be fully legalized.In McConnell’s home state of Kentucky, tobacco farming is dying out. Farmers are desperate for a replacement crop. And hemp is their choice for the future.“It’s going to be incredibly important for California agriculture,” says state Sen.
In his so-called war on drugs, President Nixon in 1970 signed illogical legislation classifying marijuana and hemp as Schedule 1 drugs along with heroin, cocaine and the like. Wilk’s bill, SB 153, meshes California law with the federal government’s and requires the state agriculture department to submit a hemp cultivation plan to the feds.
Wilk’s bill zipped virtually unnoticed through two Senate committees and across the Senate floor without a “no” vote. It’s now in the Assembly. Hemp CBD is a non-intoxicant. But its fans say it can alleviate chronic pain, anxiety, seizures and a lot of other ailments, such as arthritis and insomnia. It can be rubbed on the skin as an ointment or digested in food. Old folks love it, says the bill’s author, Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry .
“State law mandates that the CDPH adopt federal laws and regulations pertaining to food, drugs, cosmetics and medical devices…. CDPH is required to enforce those laws and regulations. CBD derived from hemp is currently not allowed in any of the items CDPH regulates…including conventional foods, drugs and cosmetics.”Proposition 64, the 2016 marijuana legalization initiative, is largely to blame. It left healthy hemp out of its act.
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