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The Food Processor Question: Is Marijuana a GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) Food Additive?
Food processors and regulators at the state and local levels are facing a situation that people never envisioned a mere 10 years ago. And that situation is legalization of marijuana and how it will be dispensed. Marijuana advocates in Washington and Colorado, two states that have legalized the substance, envision that pot will be sold in different foods: cookies, brownies, cakes, beverages and other vehicles. Since the U.S. Justice Department is not amenable to enforcing federal law with regards to marijuana, the burden of enforcement is in limbo. Should it be handed over to the states? In fact, there have been ongoing debates between the different government branches on several related issues. Among the questions that have been debated are: “Should operations producing and dispensing marijuana be treated as food processors?” or “Should such operations be ignored...
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