The CBD Crackdown Has Begun
In New York City and beyond, health departments are stopping restaurants from dosing customers with cannabidiol.
If you like cannabidiol cupcakes and live in New York City, it’s time to learn how to bake your own. The city’s health department confirmed in a statement Tuesday that it had begun a crackdown on restaurants that use the compound—better known as CBD—as a food additive, embargoing products and warning of fines to come. In doing so, New York becomes the first major American city to begin enforcement on CBD’s questionably legal but . Until now, NYC consumers could find CBD in a wide range of products, including brownies, lattes, cocktails, and empanadas.
