The FDA was large and in charge at the recent CBD Expo in Las Vegas. I was outside the main entrance with our Mobile Extraction Lab so I missed the details. According to vendors who began packing up and fleeing en masse, FDA Representatives told people to stop providing CBD samples, stop making health claims, edible products must be taken off the market . . . etc.
Looking for your experience, from this event or other, with the FDA and cannabis products.
Blegh
Payment processors push for cosmetic / lotions only. Sounds like they’re finally starting to crack down.
They put a damper on the whole show, without a doubt. Super buzzkill.
Can you tell me about it? Were you vending or attending? Did you speak with them or get a card? What were they saying? Tell me more!
We were exhibiting. So they didn’t come up to our booth and say “We are with the FDA” or anything like that.
We just kinda caught wind of it from people at the show and then we had a guy walking the floor that eventually ran into them at another booth and heard them telling people “no samples” “no ingestibles” etc. … He followed them around a bit and saw multiple booths close up shop like you said.
Kinda pathetic how they went about it, honestly… Seeing as the can’t come up with any concrete regulations for us to follow, but still wanna come to a trade show and tell people what they can and can’t do lol.
I’d be curious to talk to someone that actually got a business card from these guys and to verify that this was legit. It seems like the FDA wouldn’t have the bandwidth to do something like this.
Agree. @steelrollin. FDA regulates interstate (sales across state lines). State law regulates sales within the state. If the state regs allow sales BUT defer to FDA regs then state sales are not allowed. This is exactly the case in for example NY. However, as there were no cross state sales within the convention I don’t understand why FDA would have any authority? That said, as anybody that’s looked at the size of FDA regulations knows, there are certainly shit tons I do not know that I don’t know.
I wonder if these were not FDA guys but some other regulator? Wasn’t there a similar crack down at the last MJ convention in Vegas?
Found it… Looks like LV Convention Center is the self appointed watch (cough) dog at the Nov '19 CBD convention. As a guy that lived in Vegas for years, I will say, NV law enforcement likes to swing around their pencil sticks…
“The LVCVA is our partner. We couldn’t host the show without their facility,” she says. “They’ve elected to follow federal law and we support that decision. It does impact some of the things our exhibitors can do. They’ve challenged our rules, but we’ve decided to follow LVCVA and local guidelines.”
"Clark County policy does not prohibit hemp but prohibits marijuana and CBD on premises where alcohol is served. The Convention Center serves alcoholic beverages. "
Very interesting angle. It could have been because of the liquor license.
all things lately are pointing towards new legal restrictions hammering down hard soon. if they really care enough to show up at expos then i would tread lightly
take a listen to David Heldreth Jr. He explains the relationship between CBD, GW Pharma and the FDA.
I think CBD isolate will be allowed but nothing infused.
birdman meme @qma
I have experienced something similar at a CBD Expo in Southern California, no edible samples per the request of the venue
This photo has got to be a Magic: the Gathering tournament
yay a true terpenes podcast
I thought it was “plumbers training” from the azzcrack in the photo.
Blockquote If the state regs allow sales BUT defer to FDA regs then state sales are not allowed. This is exactly the case in for example NY
I operate in NY, please elaborate.
