The New Caledonian parties of the Future in Confidence (AEC) and the UC-FLNKS want to remove cannabidiol (CBD) from the list of narcotic products in New Caledonia. Three requests have been filed in this regard, before the Congress and the government of the country, with a project to study the creation of a local hemp sector.
Amazing CBD since 2018
New Caledonia chose to classify the cannabidiol molecule in its list of narcotic products in April 2018. The motivation put forward for this classification remained quite summary at the time and was based on the psychoactivity of CBD, which provides its effects on the body. human without however generating psychotropic effects.
The previous year, however, the World Health Organization indicated that its consumption posed no risk to public health. And that CBD might possess some therapeutic value, although at that time further evidence seemed necessary.
“These additional evidencerelates the AEC in a press release, have just been made by recent studies carried out by various research laboratories and which corroborate the beneficial role of CBD in the treatment of epilepsy, as an immunosuppressant as well as its interest in the fight against addictions and in particular that of THC or even to cocaine. »
CBD is also legal in mainland France, without any restriction apart from the THC level of products containing CBD, which must not exceed 0.3%.
“In order to put an end to the inequality of treatment that currently exists between Metropolitans and Caledonians in terms of access to CBD, and following the results of the latest scientific studies showing that CBD has no addictive potential, the government to issue an order to remove CBD from the list of narcotic substances” requests the text of elected officials.
L’Avenir en Confidence and the UC-FLNKS are obviously not asking to legalize cannabis in New Caledonia, but simply to open up the possibility of marketing products derived from hemp and containing CBD such as herbal teas, oils or cosmetics. From local sources, these products are already on sale in New Caledonia but may be prosecuted.
“It’s a public health need”, explains Virginie Ruffenach, president of the AEC group, “of well-being too, and to allow Caledonians, like Metropolitans, like Europeans, like Americans, like people from Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland… to be able to have this product available in New Caledonia. »
Three wishes have therefore been tabled before the New Caledonian government and Congress:
- remove CBD from the list of narcotics
- authorize the import of EU certified products (excluding dried flowers) within the legislative framework applicable in metropolitan France, pending the establishment of a local production sector
- carry out a study aimed at setting up a local hemp sector, “intended for the production of textile fibres, building materials, CBD, etc”.
