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MRHA Ruling: The CBD Industry Speaks Out

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 10/13/2016 - 09:30

Manufacturers and distributors of cannabidiol (CBD) based products have spoken out after the Medicine products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) told vendors they have 28 days to stop selling their products in the UK. The decision was made by the MHRA to define CBD as a medicine, meaning that companies will now require a licence to sell these products. They have raised their concerns about their customers’ access to CBD being taken away by this measure.

According to Love CBD, a company selling legal cannabis oil in the UK, the reason cited by the MHRA for this change was the recent release of data from clinical trials of Epidiolex, which is a 99 percent CBD standardised product being developed by GW Pharmaceuticals to treat two types of intractable epilepsy (Dravet Syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome). Love CBD said: “They’re banning hemp oil by the back door. Why? Because it works. That is...

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