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From: leroysoetoro@barackobama.com

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/446450-fda-holds-its-first-hearing- on-regulating-cbd

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held its first public hearing
Friday into cannabidiol, better known as CBD, the cannabis extract that
has grown popular in recent years.

The compound, which can be extracted from marijuana or hemp and is already
sold in various forms, does not get people high and is promoted as a
method of easing anxiety or inflammation. But the FDA has lingering
concerns over the product’s marketing and seeks further information about
its safety.

“There are important reasons to generally prohibit putting drugs in the
food supply,” acting FDA Commissioner Norman Sharpless said, adding that cannabis extracts like CBD “are no exception.”

The hearing, which lasted nearly 10 hours, saw testimony from business
owners, researchers, hemp farmers and consumer advocates urge the FDA to
craft regulations over the substance. While many disagreed about how
stringent the rules should be, many said the FDA must move fast.

Despite existing FDA regulations banning CBD from being used in food and supplements, thousands of unapproved products have been made available,
though many lack hard scientific proof.

“It’s a Wild West kind of environment right now,” Yasmin Hurd, a
psychiatry professor at the Icahn School of Medicine who has researched
CBD for almost 10 years told The Washington Post. “I’m inundated every day
with patients wanting to know how much CBD they should take, which ones to
buy. But we don’t know what’s in the stuff now being sold. … We’ve had
this explosion without guidance to the public or regulation.”

Even though Congress voted to legalize hemp in December, the FDA maintains
that CBD remains under government regulation, writing warning letters to companies in recent months that “illegally selling CBD products that
claimed to prevent, diagnose, treat, or cure serious diseases, such as
cancer.”

However, a burgeoning industry that analysts project could be worth as
much as $22 billion in the next five years is only continuing to grow,
with retailers like CVS and Walgreens planning on selling CBD lotions and creams and burger chain Carl’s Jr. selling CBD-infused burgers.

The FDA has so far approved one CBD-based drug that treats severe
childhood epilepsy.



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