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US: Iowa cracks down on cannabis oil sales Grace Runkel Ourquadcities.com Thursday 04 Jan 2018 The Iowa Department of Public Health is cracking down on businesses that sell cannabis oil. The sellers say they are protected under federal law, but the state says otherwise. The department sent a statement to police agencies this week notifying them that the oils known as CBD are illegal. A spokesperson for the Bettendorf Police Department said they will seize the product if people report it, but officers won't go looking for it. Jacob Jensen runs Cloud 9 in Davenport. He finds new products and talks to customers, but he said what takes up most of his time is educating. "The biggest struggle that I deal with is just having to make sure that people understand it," Jensen said. "You're not going to get high off of CBD. It's non-psychoactive. It's not going to do that." The store sells a variety of CBD products, including capsules and lotions, but the most popular is the oil. Jensen said about a quarter of his customers come in for it. "Pain, anxiety, depression, appetite, sleeping, even just general relaxation in itself, all [those] are huge from CBD," Jensen said. He said the CBD oil he stocks is made from industrial hemp, not marijuana. Jensen said that means it's protected by the 2014 Farm Bill. That doesn't mean he hasn't had issues. Police have seized his CBD several times since he began carrying it two years ago. "It's one of those things where once you educate the local law enforcement we've typically been able to avoid any situations," he said. Jensen said he had questions when he first heard about CBD oil himself. "Half the people don't know and the other half are misconceived under what it does," Jensen said. "That's probably the biggest educational part of it: making sure people know what they're taking [and] knowing that there's alternatives to Tylenol and Advil. You know, basically Western medication." http://www.ourquadcities.com/news/iowa-cracks-down-on-cannabis-oil-sales/902695098
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