A ruling by an Italian court earlier this month represents a huge break for the country’s hemp and CBD industry.
The decision made by the Lazio Regional Administrative Court on February 14 overturned what the panel deemed an “‘absurdly restrictive’ decree [that] meant hemp leaves and flowers were considered narcotics in the eyes of regulators.”
The upshot is that the decision “means that Italy’s national law now no longer contravenes the 2020 Kanavape ruling of the European Union’s Court of Justice (ECJ).”
In that ruling, the Court of Justice of the European Union “ruled that CBD is not a narcotic
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