Italian Regional Court Suspends Ban On CBD, Future Of Hemp Sector’s 15k Workers Still Uncertain Despite Protests
In a positive development for the threatened hemp industry in Italy, the Regional Administrative Court of Lazio temporarily suspended a decree that would classify CBD as a narcotic.
“The Lazio Regional Administrative Court today suspended the decree on CBD (cannabidiol, ed.) from the Ministry of Health because there is no evidence that it is a substance that creates dependency and risks of abuse,” said Mark Grimaldi, vice president of Green-Left Alliance (AVS), speaking in the Chamber on the Security bill, reported Agenzia Nova. “This news calls into question part of the discussion currently underway in the Chamber: we are asking for the removal of the provisions from article 18 onwards of the Security bill.”
What happened: In July, the joint Constitutional Affairs and Justice committees of the Chamber voted to add an amendment prohibiting cannabis flowers of all types to the Security Bill. If the amendment passes into law, it would classify all cannabis and hemp flowers as narcotics regardless of THC content.
The proposal was first introduced in June, aiming to ban hemp flowers from “import, processing, possession, transfer, distribution, trade, transport, dispatch, …