What are the risks of possessing CBD?

At first glance, it is hard to tell a CBD flower from marijuana. CBD, however, is an entirely legal substance. So what does a CBD user risk if the police carry out a check? Here is a closer look.

How little is known about CBD

Ask the people around you and few of them will be able to explain what CBD is. Some will tell you it is a drug, others a medicine, and others again that they have never heard of it. Among police officers, the same observation applies. On top of that, it is almost impossible to tell CBD from cannabis by sight.

So what happens during a police check?

If you are stopped while carrying CBD, you should not normally be troubled as long as your flower is in a sealed container bearing an identification label. You will also need to be able to produce the receipt for your product. In that case, barring specific instructions received by the authorities, you will have no problem.

If you cannot account for the origin of your CBD, however, it may be confiscated. And if you also have a record involving narcotics, then carrying it could count against you. Where there is doubt, the police can seize your CBD and send it for analysis, and the same goes for the CBD you vape.

Dog handling units also warn that dogs do not distinguish between cannabis and CBD. An elderly person using CBD to calm certain pains can therefore be stopped like any dealer. Be careful too: at a roadside check, it is a saliva test screening for THC that is carried out.

Tolerance does not mean freedom

The police are keen to point out that France tolerates CBD. Carrying it with a proper receipt does not make the user an outlaw. If you smoke your CBD flower in the street, however, officers will confiscate it.