Technical grade cannabis sold as "tobacco substitute"
Cannabinoid tobacco substitutes have become the most popular product on Cannatrade annual exhibition, held this year in Zurich.
One of the Swiss company that specializes in organic gardening, "brought" to market cannabis buds with high concentrations of cannabidiol (CBD). One of the varieties of French varieties Fedora containing 7.2% cannabidiol with THC concentrations within 0.04% Swiss entrepreneurs advertise as a legitimate therapeutic product, in particular as a basis for "natural and healthy alternative to tobacco smoking".
According to executive director of the company "who brought" on the Swiss market legal industrial hemp bumps "Besides tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which is produced by the product it contains all active components are part of the hemp. In particular, the plant is considerably increased concentration of cannabidiol (CBD), which has a strong therapeutic effect. "
At the moment, there are some difficulties between consumers of the product, and law enforcement agencies. For police officers, "tobacco substitute" outwardly no different from the psychoactive cannabis. The legislation of the country regulated, in the absence of laboratory tests police can not claim that the product is illegal or allowed to consume cannabinoid variety of technical hemp. There are no plans to develop any rules, clarifying the mechanism of sales of technical hemp varieties rich cannabidiol. At the moment, there was a practice, according to which in case of any suspicion that used non-technical grade hemp and marijuana, police withdraws the plant material for the respective analyzes. If the amount of THC in the product will not exceed 1% (according to the above Act classifies the plant as a "psychoactive hemp"), the detainees cones will be returned to the owner. If the test materials will contain more than a certain limit legislation tetrahydrocannabinol, then the consumer will have to answer to the state to the fullest extent of applicable law.
Cannabinoid tobacco substitutes have become the most popular product on Cannatrade annual exhibition, held this year in Zurich. About a dozen companies in Switzerland specialized in the cultivation of industrial hemp varieties cannabinoid, processing their crops in various concentrates or extracts.
Comment of the Association "Ukrainian industrial hemp"
According to the regulatory framework of the Swiss Confederation, including the "Act on the regulation of drug distribution," malonarkoticheskuyu with hemp can be legally sold on the domestic market a minimum content of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) as a "tobacco substitute". Technical cannabinoid cannabis varieties recognized by the authorities as a "tobacco substitutes", the concept of which also includes sage or passion. It is because of technical cannabis buds are in this category of substances, they can legally be distributed without any license or authorization.
This kind of "loophole" enabling legal sale cannabinoid industrial hemp varieties has been made possible only thanks to the fact that Switzerland is not a member of the EU, where there are more stringent rules for the psychoactive cannabis, recognizing drug plant with a concentration of THC exceeding 0.03%.
Cannabinoid oil, unlike the CBD cones, according to EU law, can be exported to the European Union for retail or wholesale. This market segment in the Swiss Confederation in the past few years is growing rapidly, which significantly stimulates the growth of the market pharmaceutical cannabis in the country.
Experience Swiss growers are extremely useful in our country due to the fact that at the level of regulations of professional associations Ukrainian growers at the moment solve the problem of the possibility of using leaves and inflorescence industrial hemp for industrial purposes.
Information taken from the site http://tku.org.ua