July / August 2003
Staff Utne magazine
A San Francisco appeals court on April 17 blocked the Drug
Enforcement Agency from implementing a ban on hemp food products.
The ban had been slated to go into effect April 21 and would have
prohibited the sale of hemp foods and soaps containing hemp seed
oil imported for manufacturing. The problem? These products may
contain trace amounts of naturally occurring THC, the main
psychoactive substance in marijuana. The court?s stay gives a trade
group for the small but growing hemp food and body care products
industry several months to prepare a legal challenge to the DEA?s
proposed clampdown.
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