The CBD Crackdown Has Begun
In New York City and beyond, health departments are stopping restaurants from dosing customers with cannabidiol.
by Amanda Mull
Feb 06, 2019
3 minutes
If you like cannabidiol cupcakes and live in New York City, it’s time to learn how to bake your own. The city’s health department confirmed in a statement Tuesday that it had begun a crackdown on restaurants that use the compound—better known as CBD—as a food additive, embargoing products and warning of fines to come. In doing so, New York becomes the first major American city to begin enforcement on CBD’s questionably legal but . Until now, NYC consumers could find CBD in a wide range of products, including brownies, lattes, cocktails, and empanadas.
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