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Doctor Block…….”A Physician Botanist’s Insight to Cannabis species: The Naming of Plants and Products”

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Cannabis sativa – One plant, Many crops. Despite its cultivation as a source of food, fiber and medicine, and its global status as the most frequently used illicit drug, plants in the genus Cannabis currently experience an inconclusive taxonomic organization and evolutionary history. More on potency will be discussed in future blogs.

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Countries that have legalized CBD

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Words like marijuana, hemp, and THC can often easily determine whether CBD oil or another product is legally available for consumption and purchase. This means that the oils and other products must be produced using the CBD-rich variant of cannabis, namely the Cannabis Sativa L (CSL) variant. But why is this important? They have THC.

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Guest Post – Europe: How The Novel Food Authorisation Is Affecting the CBD Oil Industry

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This decision was announced at the Novel Food Commission meeting which was held in Brussels in 2016. In other words, we can say that Novel foods are those foods which don’t have a proper and significant history of consumption. And the same truly doesn’t have any proper consumption history before 1997.

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Austria: Cannabidiol In Food And Cosmetics

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In respect of the use of Cannabis sativa L. It is true that the EU Novel Food Catalogue 7 qualifies extracts of Cannabis sativa L. and derived products containing cannabinoids as novel foods as a history of consumption has not been demonstrated. However, with regard to the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa L.)

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Lancet Medical Cannabis Study: If You’re Researching, Do it Right

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Additionally, we recorded frequency of cannabis use, rather than quantity and type of cannabis, but there are major complexities in reliably measuring total cannabis consumption given variations in tetrahydrocannabinol content and amounts consumed in a session of use.”. (One in six subjects reported using cannabis in this study!).

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Italy: MINISTRY OF HEALTH DECREE – Definition of maximum levels of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in food

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Given the law of 2 December 2016, n. Italian December 30, 2016, n. animal intended for human consumption; Having regard to Regulation (EC) no. 2016); Having regard to Regulation (EC) no. 2016); Having regard to Regulation (EC) no. 2016/2115 of the Commission of the 1st. of Cannabis sativa L.

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Guest Post: The Legal Status of CBD Oil in Italy

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While the Ministries of Health and Justice awarded penalties for the possession, sale and consumption of cannabis prior to 2013, medical cannabis was legalised and made available to patients from 2013 onwards. To understand the reasoning behind this, we need to study the history of cannabis legalisation in Italy. is illegal in Italy.

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