“It is not established that the consumption of flowers and leaves of these varieties of cannabis with a low level of THC would include risks for public health,” said the highest administrative jurisdiction in its decision.
mo12345lemonde with AFP
The Council of State canceled definitively, Thursday, December 29, the government decree prohibiting the sale of flowers and leaf sheets loaded with cannabidiol (CBD), the non -psychotropic molecule of cannabis, after having already Suspended less than a year ago.
“It is not established that the consumption of flowers and leaves of these varieties of cannabis with a low rate of THC [tetrahydrocannabinol] would include risks to public health,” said the highest administrative jurisdiction in his decision , judge “illegal (…) the general and absolute ban on their marketing”.
disproportionate prohibition
The Council of State had suspended, on January 24, the government’s decree prohibiting the sale of flowers and leaflets of hemp. It had been seized by professionals in this sector wishing to obtain the emergency suspension of This decree taken on December 30 and prohibiting any detention and gross assignment of the plant containing cbd.
The Council of State judged on the substance “disproportionate the general and absolute prohibition of marketing in the gross state” of this substance. In response to the argument of an impossibility for the police to make the difference in the event of control between the plants provided or devoid of “narcotic property”, which would compromise the fight against narcotics, the Council of State estimated that the THC level “could be controlled by means of quick tests”.