On December 30, the government had taken a prohibiting decree any gross detention and sale of the plant containing cannabidiol – other name of the CBD.
Le Monde with AFP
The Council of State suspended on Monday, January 24, the Government Order prohibiting the sale of the flower and the hemp – which contain CBD, the non-psychotropic molecule of cannabis. The highest administrative court had been seized by professionals in this sector wishing to obtain the emergency suspension of a decree of the Ministry of Health taken on December 30 and prohibiting any gross detention and sale of the plant containing cannabidiol – Other Name of the CBD.
In his order, the Council of State felt that it “does not result from the instruction (…) that the flowers and hemp leaves including the content of THC [Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychotropic molecule Cannabis] is not greater than 0.30% of a degree of health for health justifying a general and absolute prohibition measure of their sale to consumers and their consumption “.
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“For us, it was a thorn in the foot, we were at the abois and it questioned the whole sector. The horizon emerges, but everything remains to be done,” said Aurélien DeCroix, president of the hemp union, one of the applicant parties. “The ministry has tried to defend a public health argument which, anyway, did not hold the road,” reacted M e Uzan-Sarano, Council of the Hemp Union. Xavier Pizarro, a lawyer of the Union of CBD professionals, welcomed a decision that testifies to a “mastery of European law, where the government wants to make a political shot”.