[gaiusmarius]

CBD Hemp Oil Officially Designated Schedule I Drug By DEA

https://dabsmagazine.com/featured/cbd...i-drug-by-dea/

The DEA just made its second major ruling on cannabis extracts in one week. The most recent one, announced Thursday, officially designates CBD cannabidiol hemp oil as a Schedule I drug, just like psychoactive cannabis (also just like heroin and ecstasy). This new change came just a day after another change in the way the DEA will treat extracts: extracts were given their own separate drug code on Wednesday.

It’s still unclear what the motivation for the ruling on CBD hemp oil was and what its effects on medical marijuana patients and producers will be. Until last Thursday, some forms of hemp-derived CBD oil were still not considered illegal by the federal government, but this new regulation will change that.

The DEA explained in its ruling that their goal was to make their marijuana laws more consistent with international drug conventions, which comes off as a bit of an empty gesture now that over half the states in the union have legalized at least some form of medical marijuana.

“For practical purposes, all extracts that contain CBD will also contain at least small amounts of other cannabinoids,” the DEA said. “However, if it were possible to produce from the cannabis plant an extract that contained only CBD and no other cannabinoids, such an extract would fall within the new drug code.”

CBD oil is used pretty much exclusively for medical purposes and is seen by many as a miracle drug for the treatment of childhood epilepsy. It has no confirmed negative side effects. According to one scientific study that looked at comprehensive research on the cannabinoid, “Several studies suggest that CBD is non-toxic in non-transformed cells and does not induce changes on food intake, does not induce catalepsy, does not affect physiological parameters (heart rate, blood pressure and body temperature), does not affect gastrointestinal transit and does not alter psychomotor or psychological functions. Also, chronic use and high doses up to 1,500 mg/day of CBD are reportedly well tolerated in humans.” However, it notes that some studies indicate that CBD could cause a few negative side effects, including, “inhibition of hepatic drug metabolism, alterations of in vitro cell viability, decreased fertilization capacity, and decreased activities of p-glycoprotein and other drug transporters.”

[resinryder]

In a separate matter, the DEA confirmed their special agents in charge looked long and deep up their asses and found they were literally full of shit.

[hellfire]

Errnt. The DEA can't make laws, hemp is under a congressional ruling.

CBD is business as usual. Stop fearmongering.

[gaiusmarius]

Originally Posted by hellfire

Errnt. The DEA can't make laws, hemp is under a congressional ruling.

CBD is business as usual. Stop fearmongering.

last thing i want to do is fear monger. i was just passing on what i thought was news. you saying it's not true?

[gaiusmarius]

did a quick search and found many more articles about this, whats the truth?

[Weird]

it is the shift to make it so it has to be licensed by the fda and dea in order to work

this fulfills big pharmas designs as as predicted a decade ago

[hellfire]

Originally Posted by gaiusmarius

did a quick search and found many more articles about this, whats the truth?

The only thing the DEA could do possibly is emergency scheduling but even that in effect would have to go through congress to get approval.

The main thing I've seen is its own internal reclassification of extracts to make tracking, case numbers and what not easier on the inside of the DEA.

I have seen plenty of cannabis websites try to say they have scheduled it but in truth I have not seen any legal documentation of that being so.

Hemp, is not considered part of 'marihuana' by congressional definition. It is entirely removed from the controlled substances act so long as it follows the below .3% mark.

Introduced in Senate (01/08/2015)

Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2015
Amends the Controlled Substances Act to exclude industrial hemp from the definition of "marihuana." Defines "industrial hemp" to mean the plant Cannabis sativa L. and any part of such plant, whether growing or not, with a delta-nine tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of not more than 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis. Deems Cannabis sativa L. to meet that concentration limit if a person grows or processes it for purposes of making industrial hemp in accordance with state law, unless the Attorney General determines that the state law is not reasonably calculated to comply with such definition.


Any CBD derived from hemp is technically legal. So long as it does not exceed the .3% limit, and in some states like Oregon they have a 1% limit.

Isolates and distillates that are below that limit are all still perfectly legal. Even further, when you make a CBD product it is diluted even further to .00X% THC.

Nobody seems to be keen on stopping regardless. The CBD industry is moving as usual.

[Gry]

Sounds like a sucker deal.

[gaiusmarius]

glad to hear that this industry is continuing.

so basically the dea made a statement which has no weight in law? or is it that they made a statement which contradicts existing law?

or did they never make this declaration?

[Jhhnn]

Originally Posted by gaiusmarius

glad to hear that this industry is continuing.

so basically the dea made a statement which has no weight in law? or is it that they made a statement which contradicts existing law?

or did they never make this declaration?

If true, it means they'll go after CBD vendors shipping across state lines & sales of CBD products in non-MMJ states.

I don't think it threatens state level MMJ/CBD businesses.