Trade organizations, consumer advocates and even employees of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration joke that the “F” in the FDA is silent.
The FDA currently receives $6.1 billion in federal funding, and only 18.4% of that amount goes to human food.
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To put that number into perspective, tobacco receives 11.3% of the FDA budget, and human drugs receive 33%.
Now that we are at the threshold of reorganizing the FDA, cannabis is being treated like an unwanted child in a divorce.
No one wants the responsibility and expense involved with regulating it.
The food and supplement branch of the FDA wants to throw CBD over the fence to the medical products and tobacco side, which is complex, expensive, time-consuming and would ruin the grassroots market.
If the human drug side takes on CBD and THC, it would be 12-15 years before the “drug” could
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