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Hong Kong to ban CBD, label it a ‘dangerous drug’
January 27, 2023 - Associated Press
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong will ban CBD starting Wednesday, categorizing it as a “dangerous drug” and mandating harsh penalties for its smuggling, production and possession, customs authorities announced Friday.
Supporters say CBD can treat a range of ailments including anxiety and that, unlike its more famous cousin THC — which is already illegal in Hong Kong — CBD doesn’t get users high. Cannabidiol, derived from the cannabis plant, was previously legal in Hong Kong, where bars and shops sold products containing it.
But Hong Kong authorities decided last year to prohibit the marijuana-derived substance — a change that will soon go into effect. Residents were given three months from Oct. 27 to dispose of their CBD products in special boxes set up around the city.
“Starting from February 1, cannabidiol, aka CBD, will be regarded as a dangerous drug and will be supervised and managed by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance,” customs intelligence officer Au-Yeung Ka-lun said at a news briefing.
“As of then, transporting CBD for sale, including import and export, as well as producing, possessing and consuming CBD, will be illegal,” Au-Yeung said.
Penalties include up to life in prison and Hong Kong $5 million ($638,000) in fines for importing, exporting or producing CBD. Possession of the substance can result in a sentence of up to seven years and Hong Kong $1 million ($128,000) in fines.
In announcing the ban last year, the Hong Kong government cited the difficulty of isolating pure CBD from cannabis, the possibility of contamination with THC during the production process and the relative ease by which CBD can be converted to THC.
“We will tackle all kinds of dangerous drugs from all angles and all ends, and the intelligence-led enforcement action is our major goal,” Chan Kai-ho, a divisional commander with the department’s Airport Command, told reporters Friday.
Despite the harsh penalties mandated, Chan said authorities would handle enforcement on a case-by-case basis and “seek legal advice from our Department of Justice to determine what the further actions will be.”
Hong Kong maintains several categories of “dangerous drugs,” which include “hard drugs” such as heroin and cocaine, as well as marijuana.
Hong Kong’s first CBD cafe opened in 2020 and the ban will force scores of businesses to remove CBD-infused gummies, drinks and other products, or shut down altogether.
The ban is in keeping with a zero-tolerance policy toward drugs in Hong Kong, a semi-autonomous southern Chinese business hub, as well as on mainland China, where CBD was banned in 2022.
Chinese authorities have waged battles against heroin and methamphetamines, particularly in the southwest bordering on the drug-producing Golden Triangle region spanning parts of Myanmar, Thailand and Laos.
Criminal penalties for both sale and usage are also enforced for marijuana. In one of the most high-profile cases, Jaycee Chan, the son of Hong Kong action star Jackie Chan, served a six month sentence in 2014-2015 for allowing people to consume marijuana in his Beijing apartment amid a crackdown on illegal narcotics in the Chinese capital.
At the same time, China has been a main source of the precursor chemicals used to manufacture the dangerous drug fentanyl, a trade often facilitated through social media.
A wealthy Asian financial center with a thriving commercial port and major international airport, Hong Kong is a key point of entry to China as well as a market for some drugs, especially cocaine. Police have recently seized hundreds of kilograms (pounds) of the drug worth tens of millions of dollars, some of it hidden in a shipment of chicken feet from Brazil.
Most Asian nations maintain strict drug laws and enforce harsh penalties for violators, including the death penalty, with the exception of Thailand, which made it legal to cultivate and possess marijuana last year.
Debate over CBD policy continues in many countries and regions.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Thursday there’s not enough evidence about CBD to confirm that it’s safe for consumption in foods or as a dietary supplement. It called on Congress to create new rules for the massive and growing market.
Marijuana-derived products have become increasingly popular in lotions, tinctures and foods, while their legal status has been murky in the U.S., where several states have legalized or decriminalized substances that remain illegal federally.
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 Blue Cthulhu
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 Re: Hong Kong to ban CBD, label it a ‘dangerous drug’ [Re: veggie] 1
#28159498 - 01/27/23 08:36 AM (1 month, 28 days ago) |
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Thursday there’s not enough evidence about CBD to confirm that it’s safe for consumption in foods or as a dietary supplement. It called on Congress to create new rules for the massive and growing market.
Interesting. Strange that it's okay to include caffeine in food products, but not CBD - what are the health concerns? I'm not familiar with any...
The Chinese part of it, I suppose is just a means of eliminating cannabis entirely - it's too confusing to allow hemp and CBD but ban THC containing cannabis. And you can't have folks getting high and thinking strange thoughts in your totalitarian regime
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Re: Hong Kong to ban CBD, label it a ‘dangerous drug’ [Re: veggie] 1
#28159563 - 01/27/23 09:19 AM (1 month, 28 days ago) |
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Squalid Living Conditions Of Hong Kong's Poor Population
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Re: Hong Kong to ban CBD, label it a ‘dangerous drug’ [Re: durian_2008]
#28159694 - 01/27/23 11:08 AM (1 month, 28 days ago) |
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Wow.
Also, so interesting to see footage like that - from 2009? Good luck getting such an inside view these days...
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Re: Hong Kong to ban CBD, label it a ‘dangerous drug’ [Re: veggie]
#28160293 - 01/27/23 06:26 PM (1 month, 28 days ago) |
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veggie said:
Penalties include up to life in prison and Hong Kong $5 million ($638,000) in fines for importing, exporting or producing CBD. Possession of the substance can result in a sentence of up to seven years and Hong Kong $1 million ($128,000) in fines.
Holy fucking shit! For fucking CBD!? It doesn't even get you high. Fuck man.
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Re: Hong Kong to ban CBD, label it a ‘dangerous drug’ [Re: veggie]
#28160675 - 01/28/23 12:13 AM (1 month, 28 days ago) |
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Hong Kong to ban freedom, label it a dangerous drug. Oh wait they already did.
I dunno what you do about a dictatorship like China, is it even possible for a population to realistically rebel or resist a dystopian dictatorship like that anymore, with modern technology and modern weapons? Maybe the chinese people will be enslaved forever.
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Re: Hong Kong to ban CBD, label it a ‘dangerous drug’ [Re: nooneman]
#28160855 - 01/28/23 07:08 AM (1 month, 28 days ago) |
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I've been taking CBDa oil and vitamins and I've never gotten covid. It could simply be a coincidence but there is at least one study that shows the raw oil stops the replication of covid cells in the lab. I've also never gotten the covid vaccine which may be why I've never gotten covid. Maybe they're trying to ban CBD because of its health properties.
https://today.oregonstate.edu/news/oregon-state-research-shows-hemp-compounds-prevent-coronavirus-entering-human-cells
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#28160857 - 01/28/23 07:10 AM (1 month, 28 days ago) |
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Yeah, that's a really good question. I've argued that major checkpoints for eternal absolute power have been reached by some countries and A.I. being the final cog in the wheel that seals the deal. The only way something like china could be up ended would be a successful coo or outside intervention. Just like with the U.S. there is no over throwing th government, the tipping point would be when active service members were opening fire on its own family and civilians and how many people would do it... Places like china really make me believe some major major outside shit is yet to come to this planet. The government and people of china are so bold and cut throat, if they don't change their ways they will surely be used as an example by the universe in time. They will go down in a blood bath. And be very poor for a long lonnnng time.
In one flash.
They know this.
That's what their short man syndrome is all about. Their fate is sealed as the universe of power is concerned. They challanged it...They wanted it...
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Re: Hong Kong to ban CBD, label it a ‘dangerous drug’ [Re: Grungeman17]
#28161014 - 01/28/23 09:06 AM (1 month, 27 days ago) |
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In war gaming, they are presumably happy to lose half their population, a few of whom find entertaining ways to torment their authorities.
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durian_2008
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Re: Hong Kong to ban CBD, label it a ‘dangerous drug’ [Re: durian_2008]
#28161098 - 01/28/23 10:08 AM (1 month, 27 days ago) |
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Their idealized vision of a prison -- which is shown to members of the foreign, general public -- outwardly appears to have higher living standards than the slums.
At least, there is paid, vocational training, the buildings are in good repair, and there are much fewer people per toilet.
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#28161154 - 01/28/23 10:54 AM (1 month, 27 days ago) |
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Grungeman17 said: a successful coo
Coup*
Though we have crazy technology these days, we still need humans to operate all of it, so until we have a totally robotic military controlled by one person then there is always room for authoritarian regimes to be dismantled.
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