A watershed CBD recommendation expected this summer from Canadian health authorities could resolve one of the oddest differences between the cannabis industries in Canada and the U.S. – their starkly different approaches to hemp extracts.
In the United States, hemp is legal and broadly available, while higher-THC cannabis remains an illicit drug on the federal level – despite broad disregard for marijuana prohibition by state governments.
The Canadian government, by contrast, legalized high-THC cannabis in 2018.
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But CBD remains a controlled substance in Canada, regulated in a similar manner to high-THC marijuana.
Canada’s CBD sellers commonly operate in the illicit market because of federal rules requiring CBD sales to occur in provincially licensed stores, which tend to specialize in high-THC products and aren’t able to import U.S.-made CBD for commercial purposes.
But Canada’s stifled CBD market could soon be opening up.
That’s because Health Canada, which oversees both
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