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U.S. court OKs sale of hemp-based food products
Friday February 6, 8:29 pm ET
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 6 (Reuters) - An appeals court barred the U.S. government on
Friday from preventing the sale and possession of food products made from hemp
plants with small amounts of the substance that makes marijuana, a related plant, an
illegal drug.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency
may regulate marijuana and
synthetic forms of the substance
that gives the plant its narcotic
powers, but the agency does not
have authority to bar the sale or
possession of all hemp-based food
products, the San Francisco-based
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
said in its ruling.
Non-psychoactive hemp used to
make food, oils, cosmetics rope,
paper and other products, is not a
so-called scheduled drug the DEA
has authority to regulate despite
hemp's small, or trace, amounts of
the substance that produces a
marijuana high, the court held.
"Congress knew what it was doing, and its intent to exclude non-psychoactive hemp
from (DEA) regulation is entirely clear," Judge Betty Fletcher wrote for the court. |
