Iowa Hemp Plan Approved By USDA BUT CBD Remains Illegal As Of March 2020 (Without FDA Approval)

“mCBD” is still legal through the Iowa approved medical cannabidiol program — more on that later.

Hemp sourced CBD remains illegal in Iowa as of March 20, 2020, reports Ganjapreneur:

Iowa’s industrial hemp plan has received approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and farmers in the state can begin applying to cultivate the crop starting April 1. The plan does not legalize the production or use of CBD, according to the state Department of Agriculture & Land Stewardship.

“This commercial hemp production program does not legalize the use of cannabidiol (CBD) for human consumption, extraction or processing in Iowa. The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) is still working to determine if CBD is safe for human consumption. Hemp grain, hemp seed oil and protein powder derived from hemp grain have been cleared by the FDA for human consumption.” – IDALS in a March 20 press release

Read Ganjapreneur’s full article: USDA Approves Iowa Hemp Plan

WeedPress has been reporting for three years now on the CBD illegality issue in Iowa and the solution, which is legislation, but CBD scam artists such as Kymm Loeffler in Cedar Rapids have continuously lied to the public and defrauded their consumers by telling them falsehoods concerning the legality of their products and legal risk consumers of their place of business are subsequently exposed to.

One solution to these intentional lying business people in Iowa: differentiate illegal CBD from legal medical CBD with the designation “mCBD.” So, CBD moving forward will reference illegal CBD in Iowa that places users at real risk of arrest (one sales person is facing felony charges ((that WeedPress repeatedly warned would happen)) at the time of this writing from Ankeny Iowa) and “mCBD” will reference products legally available through Iowa’s highly restrictive monopoly-intended medical program whose market barriers to entry are the fault of the legislators, and not providers. These people don’t like that they have been outperformed by politicians who stole their power, leading businesses to spread all sorts of rumors and lies when caught with their pants down concerning their honesty and integrity that is drawn into question when police state action — preventable had these sales men and sales women waited on their sales and instead lobbied to remove the possibility of being shut down in the first place — was brought against various Iowa businesses, forcing the issue to be removed from the realm of social media and taken to the judge, for a final ruling on these business practices that in my opinion are actively harming Iowans.

What a bunch of unnecessary drama over CBD, which has killed no one ever.

Kim Reynolds and Upmeyer’s legislature can be thanked ultimately for setting up Iowans for arrest and persecution while allowing bad actors to infiltrate markets without consumer protections. Telling patients lies about the legality of their products is despicable, but these kind of people were only enabled in the first place by the inaction of the legislature, who can’t seem to come to terms with admitting they were wrong to take moral positions on people’s individual liberties.