Only one-third of marijuana extracts accurately labeled according to researchers.
With medical marijuana now legal in 29 states as well as D.C., and the Food and Drug Administration not regulating derivatives of the plant, including CBD extracts, many product are not labeled accurately.
A study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association has looked at 84 commercially available CBD products on the internet and had them chemically analyzed by an independent lab.
Marcel Bonn-Miller, an adjunct assistant professor of psychology in psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania and his team looked at the products and found that only 31% of them contained the precise amount of CBD advertised on the label (within the acceptable margin of error), while 26% contained less CBD than the label indicated and 43% contained more.
Even half of the CBD extract oils were labeled inaccurately.
“Was I shocked? No,” Bonn-Miller asked “Was I disappointed? Yeah. It just got me thinking, we need oversight of this industry. … (It’s) one thing on the recreational side, but here we’re talking about something that people are using almost exclusively medicinally. You don’t get high off of CBD.”
