Sweden aim to classify industrial hemp as narcotic

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I can't read swedish, but it has the phrase "delta-9-THC".

Outside of California, Marijuana is still technically illegal, but substantially similar intoxicants from hemp have been legal since 2018, and you can go have the whole dispensary experience in red states that didn't legalize it.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-mitch-mcconnell-acc... is maybe a good primer.

"All cannabis becomes narcotics, except for fibers and seeds, and all handling becomes subject to a permit, regardless of variety and delta-9-THC content."

Which means all existing types of hemp.

The current law allows for 0,3% THC, which I believe was because it was too difficult creating a strand with less and too expensive to extract it.

Sounds a lot like the old regime in the US.

The headline feels misleading. It is technically true but this proposal advances the cause of getting subsidies for cultivation of hemp.

Subsidies was already possible via Jordbruksverket.

There's a fear that putting this in the hands of the medical establishment could make it harder than necessary to get the required permits.

Jordbruksverket = Swedish Board of Agriculture

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