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NEW YORK (AP) The CBD craze is leaving the war on drugs a bit dazed and confused.
The extract that's been showing up in everything from candy to coffee is legally derived from hemp plants, which look and smell an awful lot like that other cannabis marijuana. They're so similar, police officers and the field tests they use on suspected drugs sometimes can't tell the difference.
Case in point, New York City police boasted on social media this week about what seemed like a significant drug bust: 106 pounds (48 kilograms) of funky, green plants that officers thought sure seemed like marijuana.
But the Vermont farm that grew the plants and the Brooklyn CBD shop that ordered them insisted they're actually industrial hemp, and perfectly legal. And, they said, they have paperwork to prove it.
Nevertheless, when the shop's owner brother went to the police station to straighten things out, he was arrested. Police said a field test had come back positive for marijuana.
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5X
(3,972 posts)The courts now have an opportunity to force them to recall everything tested that way.
rollin74
(1,990 posts)and any cop or politician who supports it
the smell of weed should no longer constitute probable cause for a vehicle search
stopdiggin
(11,361 posts)Hemp is the same plant, and does contain THC (just at much lower levels). The fact that it would field test positive is not a surprise.
Grower says product was tested, at request of FedEx, for THC content before shipment by local police dept. Tested less than half legal content. FedEx says that hemp (and CBD oils) are "prohibited items" for shipment. Somebody got their story wrong.