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In Paris, four store managers selling products based on cannabidiol (CBD) in the eleventh, sixteenth and eighteenth arrondissements were indicted for "transport, detention, offer or transfer, acquisition or use of narcotics", as well as for "provocation to the use of narcotics", one learned Friday from judicial source.
At the end of June, three managers of establishment, located in the IIe and XIe arrondissements, had already been indicted , their premises closed and sealed. The phenomenon does not only concern the capital
On Wednesday, barely 48 hours after opening in a student and popular district of the center of Bordeaux, a coffee shop lowered the curtain.
Its manager was also put in review for violation of the law on narcotics.
His lawyer, Julien Plouton, lamented that his client was "treated as a drug dealer, as if he had imported 400 kilos of drugs from Spain ", whereas" he thought to be in the nails ".
According to the council, this establishment, which sold in particular creams, should reopen in a few days, the time to make" a sorting in the products ". Finished, the period of grace?
If in recent weeks, this type of shops has flourished in some cities, the authorities seem to have decided to tighten the screw.
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Herbal tea and cookies [19659002] While the government announced in January the end of the automatic penalization of the use of cannabis, prioritizing rather fines ranging from 150 to 200 euros, the French "coffee shops" take advantage of a legal uncertainty that allows the CBD from when the content of THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol), a component of cannabis having a psychotropic effect, does not exceed 0,2%.
According to the public prosecutor, this authorization stems from a decree of 22 August 1990 which however, allows the sale of CBD only in the form of "fibers or seeds". Cream, herbal teas, cookies …
These shops offer a variety of products. However, a note published on June 11 by the Mildeca (Interministerial Mission against drugs and addictive behavior) recalls that if cannabidiol (or hemp) is not illegal, THC is a narcotic prohibited.
Mi -June, the health minister Agnès Buzyn warned that its services would clarify the "gray area of the law", by carrying out a joint work with the direction of the repression of frauds (DGCCRF), which depends on Bercy.
To the question "will they be closed in a few months" she replied: "I think they will have closed." With 700,000 daily cannabis smokers according to official figures, France is among the largest cannabis users in Europe: 22% of 15-34 year olds smoked at least one "joint" in 2016, according to the most on the subject.
According to a survey, 51% of French people are in favor of a limited legalization, following a tendency to relax the prohibitions in the world. The Canadian Parliament has recently approved the legalization of cannabis, making it the first G7 country to allow full consumption and production of cannabis.
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