Members of a congressional committee held a hearing on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday—with a hemp industry expert explaining how the market is "begging" for federal regulations around cannabis products and a staunch prohibitionist congressman invoking musician Elton John's opposition to marijuana legalization.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee heard from a wide range of experts at the meeting, titled "Restoring Trust in FDA: Rooting Out Illicit Products."
FDA "failed to approve products and take necessary enforcement actions resulting in a flood of illicit and counterfeit products entering the country," a memo that the committee released last week says.
The meeting didn't exclusively focus on cannabis issues. But among the five listed witnesses selected to testify was Jonathan Miller of the U.S. Hemp Roundtable, an organization that has long criticized FDA's inaction on CBD and other cannabinoid regulations since the crop was federally legalized under the 2018 Farm Bill.
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