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SEVERAL CBD PRODUCTS in Ireland are being recalled because they contain too much THC – the active ingredient in cannabis which makes users experience highs.
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) said the affected products range from food supplements to bottles of CBD oil which customers take by placing drops under their tongue.
Brand names of the recalled products are CannabiGold, Canapol and The Healing Stone, Phyto+ and The Herb Stone.
The FSAI found that “unsafe Levels of delta‐9‐tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) were detected in certain batches of CBD” and they were being immediately recalled.
The cannabis plant contains a range of cannabinoids – some of which are psychoactive. Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is psychoactive and is considered a narcotic.
In Ireland, THC is controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Acts 1977.
A spokesperson for the FSAI said: “Distributors are requested to withdraw the product from the market. Retailers are requested to remove the products from sale. Food businesses that have sold the implicated batches of the implicated CBD products to consumers must display a point-of-sale notice in store and on websites if sold online, to inform consumers that the implicated batches of these CBD products are being recalled and the reason why.”
A full list of the recalled products can be found here.
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Please name specific brands and provide shop addresses. We need to ensure they’re fully… recalled. ;-)
@Peter Peterski: Full list is linked at the end of the article. For those who wish to avoid them.
@Peter Peterski: With less than 0.3% THC it’s hardly worth the effort.
@Alan Byrne: It sounds like the cannabis equivalent of Shandy that has 0.4% alcohol or something.
@Peter Peterski: and you can forward them on to me as I have figured out a way to safely depose of them .
Unsafe levels? Don’t make me laugh. Microdosing THC is the best thing for chronic pain I’ve ever come across (better than fentanyl, tramadol, lyrica, amitriptyline, palexia – which made me lose my hair in clumps and lose my balance, falling down the stairs was a joy – talk about unsafe!). I miss those $6 THC pain patches available in 100′s of dispensaries across Colorado… must be so so dangerous that it kicks chronic pain to the curb. And this makes it impossible to get Charlotte’s Web, which is labelled as less than 0.3% THC. Yeah, so harmful it helps kids with epilepsy, how awful. THIS GOVERNMENT IS A JOKE.
@Clare McAfee: Cant someone just think of the poor pharmaceuticals for once please like where would they go???
@Karen ‘Polly’ Johnson: mine went down the toilet including the opioids – not a bad option!
@Clare McAfee: Lyrica in particular is a horrible drug. I lasted a few days on it.
@Helen Kavanagh: lyrica is absolutely mad stuff. Was prescribed it once and like yourself only lasted about a week.
@Helen Kavanagh: I wouldn’t wish Lyrica on my worst enemy. Pain removed a lot of my ability to function – Lyrica removed the rest. I’d wake up feeling drunk as a skunk with a severe lack of coordination, couldn’t leave the house. Pain obviously isn’t depressing enough, got to add in the multitude of pharma side effects too!
@Clare McAfee: nanny state
@Clare McAfee: If you don’t like it either go back to America or vote in a different government.
@larry bird: if you don’t like the argument she is making, prove her wrong.
@Karen ‘Polly’ Johnson: they’d be the ines dispensing don’t you worry. Of it was classified for medical use it’d be the pharmaceutical companies running it. Who el so would have the capacity for such a large scale operation guaranteeing insistent levels and effectiveness?
THC? The one that helps people with epilepsy, MS, arthritis, fibromyalgia, etc.?
Can’t be having that. Call the Gards!
@Tomo: CBD is the bit of the Cannibis plant that is useful for these disorders not THC
@Sinead Merrigan: so what’s wrong with thc? Gosh it might make your mental state a bit more positive?
@Sinead Merrigan: Sinead, for pain relief CBD along with adequate levels of THC works best.
@Sinead Merrigan: We have 4 products on the MCAS, one of which is 20:1 CBD:THC. Two others are 1:1 CBD:THC and one is a THC only product (Aurora softgels). THC is incredibly beneficial for a multitude of conditions – well beyond the MCAS list.
@DB: There are also published studies on the benefits of cannabis for anxiety and pain relief, and studies on pharmaceuticals that cause mental disorders when abused. It is all about context. Where does cannabis come from? Strain? THC content per dose? Additives? Processing? Frequency of use? Method of use? All the more reason to legalise, and regulate – educated governments worldwide have chosen to do so.
Buckets of evidence on alcohol abuse causing mental disorders.
Want to close all the pubs?
When are our overpaid TD’s going to move with the times.
There is no toxic level of THC, get your fact checkers on board, Journal.
@JustBEERbarry: Do you mean fatal or toxic levels of THC? If it’s the latter then this report would seem to contradict that… https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK430823/
@William Tallon: It only “seems to contradict” if one stops reading after seeing the title. Keep reading, and you’ll realise that other substances (including alcohol) are implicated, and that the piece points out that an absence of regulations has implications for users in that THC is accompanied by unwanted chemicals in poor production scenarios.
In addition, this is not a scientific paper; it appears to be an educational course summary with a catchy title to lure in those who already want to be told that “marijuana” is bad.
@Fachtna Roe: Lucky I didn’t stop there so! You’re being rather disingenuous of course. You can find any amount of academic papers online dealing with THC toxicity. I used this particular one as it’s easy to follow. Please note I’m referring to toxicity not fatality. I take it all those researchers produce these clearly biased papers just to make marijuana look bad. It’s a conspiracy! All drugs legal or currently illegal have the potential for toxicity. To claim there is no toxic level of THC is medically untenable and would appear to be an effort to make marijuana look good. That’s not my expert view by the way as I’m not an expert in this regard and nor are you. It’s just a view based on reading several papers on the subject. They’re quite interesting. Maybe you should read them…
@William Tallon: is there an estimated or known LD50 or LC50 mentioned and by way of administration?
@Derek: Why are you asking me about the median lethal dose or lethal concentration of THC when I’ve already said I’m not an expert? I clearly have no idea! I’m sure you know the answer anyway so I can only presume you’re just trying to look clever which is a bit juvenile really…
@William Tallon: Water has a toxicity level…
@William Tallon: “Most adolescents and adults do not warrant testing for diagnosis or treatment of cannabis intoxication.”
God forbid someone might get a buzz from this product.
This is so backward and frankly embarrassing. Many of the drugs that people are prescribed for chronic pain are actually dangerous, actually addictive and actually have many negative side affects. This government needs to get a grip.
This is disgraceful, it was bad enough with the Drug Squad, but now we have the HPRA and the FSAI chiming in on a relatively harmless and very useful drug. What is it about official departments in this country, why are they so risk adverse ?
@Alan Byrne: the only risk they’re seeing is the one to the pharmaceutical industry. We’ve citizens of this country who have gone from 8 opioid pills a day, to none – just use cannabis and can live a normal, functioning life having been in rotten pain for years. They also have to leave their family in Ireland and move abroad to get medical cannabis. Who can pay several grand for Sativex every few months here? I can’t. What Gov don’t consider is the tax income that will be made when Ireland does inevitably legalise and cultivate here. They should just get on with it, instead of living under a rock. Colorado legalised medical cannabis for a range of conditions, and growing at home, 21 years ago……!
@Clare McAfee: I agree 100% with you Clare, I used to think they wouldn’t legalise it due to our old fashioned ideas but now it’s beginning to look like it’s to protect the pharmaceutical industry. I hope you are safely able to find something to take care of your pain issues.
@Alan Byrne: currently pain-free and able to go back to college…
Too much of the good stuff.
Absolute joke.
Disgusting the sheer backwardness of some government departments, its shameful.
These products are completely safe natural ways to treat medical conditions
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These products actually save lives as the prevent people with chronic disease or pain from falling to the very real dangers & severe side effects of opioids and opioid addiction (many pharmaceutical companies are being sued in the US right now, some have settled for $260 million, its the first of a wave, they are now called the narcotic kingpins ) which has caused an epidemic in USA where an average of 46 people die from prescription only! opioid overdosing a day ~ 17,000 people a year.
No one has every been recorded in history as having overdosed from cannabis. These natural and safe alternatives can save lives in Ireland.
@Mentis Green: the natural alternative is already saving lives in Ireland, we all know it, Gov knows it, yet still sends the cancer patient currently going through chemo through the courts for personal possession, still labels a recovered drug addict who doesn’t want to take opioids “unclean” for using cannabis instead, and spends €4k prosecuting them… we really are living in the dark ages. And don’t tell me there aren’t lads in the Dail who didn’t enjoy some joints in uni, or now for that matter…!
@Clare McAfee: I wholeheartedly agree with you.
@Clare McAfee: Agree totally and am also a chronic pain sufferer for many years, on opiods, etc. which are far more damaging and quite frankly only barely hitting the pain. Outrageous that the current government are ignoring the science behind this natural, safe medicine.
Such an embarrassingly old school conservative country
@Rob Gale: it’s absolutely cringe!
Typical of Ireland so far behind again. Anything that might help you is banned. Get with the times.
Bunch of party poopers. Lol.
Just when it was starting to get interesting..
Welcome to Ireland. Fun not allowed.
Speechless.
THC is the main psychoactive compound in cannabis that produces the high sensation. It can be consumed by smoking cannabis. It’s also available in oils, edibles, tinctures, capsules, and more. Both compounds interact with your body’s endocannabinoid system, but they have very different effects.
I shall gladly help to gather these products
FYI CBD has too much THC FFS
So none will be handed back
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