“We want to be sure anyone who has this pizza on hand throws it away so they don’t get sick,” health officials told customers.

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    2 months ago

    I didn’t know hempseed was illegal in the US. It’s a pretty boring ingredient elsewhere.

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      2 months ago

      I think it isn’t illegal if it can’t grow a plant, so if heated or ground. You can buy ground hempseed, and i think i have some downstairs. Still, imports and such are much trickier, which is probably why they don’t use it for exports. Also other countries may have stricter imports, and perhaps the company doesn’t want the headache of verifying which market to send which product to.

      It’s similar to how most companies just conform to Californian restrictions rather than make different products for different states in the US.

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        2 months ago

        Seeds are federally legal as they contain no THC. They have been sold on the open Internet for years, even before the farm bill that got all the “intoxicating hemp” and “alternative cannabinoids” into your local head shop. Post farm bill, even growing those seeds would be legal, because hemp is legally distinct from “marijuana”.

        I can’t speak to import/export but I know a lot about cannabis

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      2 months ago

      We thank the great, valiant protectors for shielding us from the loathsome, horrible, dangerous hempseed. 🙏🙏🙏

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