That CBD you may be adding into your brunch cocktail is not actually legal, warns former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb.
"You can't just put it in the food supply," said Gottlieb, who left the FDA in April. "Right now, all the CBD is illegal that's being put into food or dietary supplements."
Gottlieb, a resident fellow at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, is also a physician who consults for and invests in biopharmaceutical companies. He joinedinterview, Gottlieb said that when it comes to the marketplace, products widely vary on quality, dosing and concentration, so one can never be sure what they're getting. "A lot of it does have high concentrations of THC. When you get CBD online, a lot of times it has high concentrations of THC.
signed the $867 billion farm bill in December. The new law removed industrial hemp from the federal government's list of controlled substances, making it a legitimate agricultural commodity. However, the FDA still prohibits firms from adding CBD to food, drinks and supplements, and from making therapeutic claims about their products.
With all that said, Gottlieb is not entirely against CBD. "I think this is going to be an opportunity going forward," he said. "But we really need to sort out the regulation."
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