Number of THC in hemp products in North America
Products containing hemp components exempt Canada from further monitoring if the semi-finished product from which they were produced contains an amount of THC less than 0.001% (10 ppm). This figure represents a de facto limit on the use of leaves and inflorescences of industrial hemp, is used for industrial purposes.
Various types of administrative barriers in the first place, "Tax on marijuana," made in 1937 the cultivation of industrial hemp crops technical unprofitable occupation in the United States and Canada hindered the revival of the American konoplevodstva up to 90-ies of the last century. In 1995, the Canadian government decided on the legality of the cultivation of industrial hemp cultivation technology on the basis of what Canadian companies, governments of Canadian provinces, as well as scientific institutions of the country are actively engaged in issues related to the provision of agronomic, cultivating and processing malonarkoticheskogo cannabis. Konoplevodstva Development Canada over the past 15-20 years has led to the fact that this state in the last decade has been one of the main exporters of hemp raw materials and final products in the world. For example, the area of technical industrial hemp crops in 2014, compared with 2013 increased by 40% and the total area occupied by malonarkoticheskoy hemp will increase to 50 thousand hectares in the coming years.
hemp business renaissance observed over the past 10-15 years throughout North-America. In particular, in the United States is booming processing and market sales of the final product of the cannabis components. For example, in the United States retail sales of hemp products only in food and cosmetic products in 2014 reached $ 620 million market growth dynamics by years was in 2011 -. 7.3%, 2012 - 16.5% 2013 - 24%, 2014 - 21.2%.
Canada
Canada is one of the major countries in the world, producing commodity grain. The dynamics of grain cultivation speaks for itself - in 2005, 6500 tons grown, and in 2011 - 18,000 tons. Previously, Canadian companies exported only paddy seed, in the last decade refiners in Canada have established the production of hemp oil, shelled sunflower seeds, protein and export commodity positions changed with supplies of raw materials, sales of finished products with high added value.
Canada in 1998 became the second country in the world to adopt the maximum permissible limits the amount of THC, which is safe for human health may be in selling products on the market. However adopted limitations do not apply Canada food made from industrial hemp seed, as well as their derivatives (hemp oil, flour, etc.). It allows the food products made from hemp seed eliminate the additional costs associated with the need to test the number of THC.
Products containing hemp components, exempt Canada from further monitoring if the semi-finished product from which they were produced contains an amount of THC less than 0.001% (10 ppm). This figure represents a de facto limit on the use of leaves and inflorescences of industrial hemp, is used for industrial purposes.
Canadian manufacturers of hemp products, and traders believe this method is more effective than other methods, since the products are produced in compliance with the above requirements not in any way controlled by the market. Comparing with the German rules of control (to be described in the following publications), Canadian requirements are not intrusive, less costly and much more effective than those that are actively being imposed in the EU (the so-called German claims). Experience with Canadian practices suggests that the period of their use, it was not even a single case of breeding attempts for illicit psychoactive constituents of cannabis purchased from the free market of goods or finished products.
It should be noted that technical industrial hemp crops in Canada THC permitted limit of 0.3% in dry weight of leaves and flowering inflorescences. THC is designated in the Schedule approved for cultivation in the territory rasteny Canada. Licensed manufacturers to display the seed on the market in Canada are required to comply with this provision to their malonarkoticheskaya hemp was allowed to grow in the country.
Market experts malonarkoticheskoy cannabis Canada noted that the value of 0.3% THC in dried leaves and inflorescences of cannabis is prescribed by regulations in order to clearly separate the cannabis cultivated for industrial purposes (food, cosmetic, Zoo business, bio-energy, and so on. d.) and psychoactive cannabis, used for pharmaceutical or medical purposes. In accordance with the statement of a responsible representative of the Ministry of Agriculture of Canada, any products made from hemp malonarkoticheskoy, the number of THC in which less than 0.9% in general do not carry any social danger, and a figure of 0.3% was determined to ensure the effective control of the state industrial crops for industrial hemp.
As part of the ARDI program the Canadian government and representatives of the hemp industry in the country have been carried out joint research. They clearly demonstrate that no one from a test group of 15 people who ate foods to 600 mg THC per day, according to their psycho-emotional state does not differ from the placebo group. Test results confirm that no adverse physiological changes in the body does not occur in the case of regular use of a small amount of THC with food either during the use of cosmetics.
USA
The United States does not have the legal acts formally regulating the amount of THC in hemp products. At the same time the state structure of the country externally show "zero tolerance" for THC in imported goods (in hemp products should contain 0% THC). However, food and other goods, the relevant Canadian Classification (0.001% THC) is allowed to import into the United States.
In accordance with the law passed in the US in 2014, the territory of the State in which the regional level adopted regulations that allow the cultivation of hemp, the plant is allowed to grow legally. It is due to the fact that hemp production in the US is growing rapidly, economic operators have developed their own standards for the amount of the psychoactive substance in the final products, which are voluntary, and are widely distributed throughout the United States. This was done in order to avoid unnecessary problems with inspections of various cannabis products for the presence of psychoactive substances by the police. To this end, several major companies hemp North American market have come together to create the "Test Pledge" - a voluntary regulatory agreement, the participants created konoplevodcheskogo market. In turn, representatives of government regulatory bodies do not insist on mandatory inspections in cases where the number of products in the hemp THC does not exceed attached as variables. Another way to import is bound traders hemp production of the documents to law enforcement agencies accredited laboratories at the Ministry of Health Canada that in hemp products contained less than 0.001% THC. These findings should be kept by the importer of the company throughout the sale terms hemp production in the United States.
It should be noted that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the management of the national policy on Drug Control (ONDCP) are trying to organize a different kind of trouble companies that sell hemp foods or cosmetics in the US market under the pretext that hemp products interfere with the above-mentioned state bodies campaigns aimed at "the total elimination of the use of marijuana in the United States."
Hemp food products containing any amount of THC or other cannabinoids fall under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). The exceptions are those products, which the Office of the US Drug Enforcement has granted permission for sale in the territory of the country. Another exception are goods used for medical purposes. At the moment, the US DEA given permission for unhindered sale on its territory of all goods manufactured from hemp trusts - paper, rope, clothing; or seeds (derivative) is used as a food product - a mixture of animal feed, cosmetics (soaps, shampoos, etc.).
Requirements "Test Pledge" by the number of THC requirements for foods sold in the US market:
- Hemp oil: 5.0 mg / kg
- Pearled grain hemp: 1.5 mg / kg
Information taken from the site http://tku.org.ua