Hemp Today
Poland’s highest administrative court has ruled against the country’s main public health agency and affirmed the legality of unprocessed products made from the hemp plant’s flowers and leaves.
In doing so, the Supreme Administrative Court ruled that Poland’s Chief Sanitary Inspectorate (GIS) wrongly ordered off the market capsules filled with ground-up hemp plant tops introduced by hemp company Kombinat Konopny in 2019.
“The judgment that was passed is probably the first case in Poland – or in Europe – in which the court did not limit itself to mindlessly rewriting the position of the authorities, but acquainted itself with the case in a matter-of-fact manner,” said Maciej Kowalski, Kombinat Konopny’s CEO.
“Officials who have deliberately abused, concealed and misrepresented will now be held personally responsible,” Kowalski said.
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Polish high court rules against health officials, clearing hemp flowers as food
