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FDA wants to turn CBD oil into a drug that will cost $32,500 as they ban all other CBD oils

• http://www.rumormillnews.com, by Erin Elizabeth

But now the FDA says that CBD is a drug, not a supplement—a drug which will be sold for $32,500 a year. Legally the FDA could at any time remove all CBD supplements from the market, on its own volition, or if the drug company which holds drug market exclusivity requests FDA do so. Unless we change the rules, we may see a government-sponsored monopoly on CBD oil, and in the near future, additional monopolies on other cheap, safe, and effective supplements.

This is happening because of a back-channel that allows natural supplements to be turned into drugs by the FDA. It works like this: if a company is investigating a substance as a drug, FDA rules give the company market exclusivity on that substance—even if it is currently being sold as a supplement. There are two exceptions: if the supplement was "marketed in or as a dietary supplement" before 1994, or if a supplement company has filed a "new supplement" notification with the FDA before the company's investigation began. (Recall, too, that the FDA has not completed the policies for submitting a "new supplement" notification, so supplement companies don't even know how to comply!) Pyridoxamine, an important form of vitamin B6 was removed from the market by the FDA through this exact same mechanism.


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