Pa. medical marijuana patients, advocates frustrated and blindsided by recent recall

The Pennsylvania Division of Well being earlier this month recalled over 500 vaporized medical marijuana products that contained some “added components” not accredited by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

That call sparked some frustration amongst Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana customers and advocacy teams, with a lot of them noting that this makes buying the wanted therapeutic substance far more tough for sufferers within the state’s medical marijuana program.

“The U.S. Cannabis Council opposes this sudden transfer by Pennsylvania regulators to instantly ban and recall a variety of hashish vaping merchandise beneath the state’s medical hashish program,” the council stated in a statement following the recall. “Sufferers throughout the state depend on medical vaping merchandise for his or her therapeutic worth. The (FDA) has made no assertion on the security of any explicit components utilized in or derived from hashish merchandise, and Pennsylvania is making use of an ordinary that doesn’t exist.”