The reason given is that the US is complying with international drug-control treaties. Before this elaboration, CBD’s legality was in a gray area. It was assumed that CBD extracted from medical cannabis was only legal for medical marijuana patients and illegal to the rest. However, CBD derived from industrial hemp was being sold across the country as if it was federally legal. Well, apparently the DEA has always believed any form of cannabis extract to be schedule 1.
The DEA claims that there are small amounts of cannabinoids in every CBD extract. They cite this as another reason to keep CBD on schedule 1.
“For practical purposes, all extracts that contain CBD will also contain at least small amounts of other cannabinoids. However, if it were possible to produce from the cannabis plant an extract that contained only CBD and no other cannabinoids, such an extract would fall within the new drug code.”
So basically, the DEA made extracting CBD completely illegal whether it is from hemp or not.
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