Hemp June 2020 🇹🇼 Taiwan

Taiwan allows CBD with almost no THC, on prescription

The health ministry said cannabidiol is legal for medical and personal use if it contains no more than 10 parts per million of THC. It is classed as a pharmaceutical, so a prescription is needed, and since no Taiwanese company sells it, buyers must apply to import it; a seller said nine in ten applications without a prescription were refused.^[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

Al Jazeera — Taiwan's cannabis trade falters as Thailand and Japan cash in (18 April 2023)archived

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