Tightening 25 August 2024 🇨🇳 China

China puts cannabidiol under its precursor-chemical rules

Six government departments issued an announcement on seven substances, cannabidiol among them, bringing their production, trade and transport under the Regulations on the Administration of Precursor Chemicals.^[1]

In the cultural atlas

Language · English abbreviation of cannabidiol, the compound's international non-proprietary nameCBDCannabidiol, the cannabis compound that does not get people high. Studied since 1940, it became a word on shop shelves only after 2018, and the law still cannot agree whether it is a medicine, a food, a drug or none of these.

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References

CMS — Cannabis law and legislation in China archived

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