In the past months, three U.S. states and municipalities – New York City, Ohio and Maine – have issued orders for business-owners to remove their CBD products from shelves. The way federal, state and municipal regulators have rushed in to the new and expanding market for CBD reveals the dangers resulting from this form of government encroachment, but also casts a light on their motivations and priorities. Most of us have heard about CBD by now, but the basics for the uninitiated run as follows: Cannabidiol, or CBD, is a non-psychoactive neighbor of THC and is derived from either the hemp...

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