CBD and Full Spectrum Hemp Products

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Here’s a fun game. Create a CBD product – an edible, an ointment, a tincture, whatever – since who knows how the body will absorb it anyway.  Give it a catchy name: Dr. Mary Jane's Happy Healing Hemp.  Then advertise that, through the magical properties of CBD, your product relieves pain, reduces inflammation, fights cancer, eases depression, or eliminates acne.    Finally, on the flip side of the package, list the CBD as an Inactive Ingredient. 

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Why?  Well, bigger claims create bigger sales.  But the FDA has only ever approved one CBD product  (and none of the “common claims” that the over-the-counter products can treat disease conditions).  The efficacy of CBD otherwise isn’t actually established, the side effects not fully understood, and the FDA and FTC haven’t determined how to regulate CBD.   So you're not actually entitled to claim CBD is an active ingredient in your product.  In fact, you really shouldn't be including CBD in any drug product making those claims until it's been better studied, and supplements needn't undergo those same studies.  Which may be why you find so many hemp "supplements" despite the fact that the FDA explicitly forbids such marketing.   

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If you’ve purchased CBD or full spectrum hemp products claiming to provide pain relief or other health benefits, contact us.  We happily review products’ advertising and labeling, without any charge or obligation to you, to make sure companies are complying with federal and state laws.

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As for the single FDA approved product? That's Epidiolex, which treats patients suffering from seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut and Dravet syndromes.