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+<br>JACKSON HOLE, WY - A woman driving through Jackson, Wyoming, on her way to Montana left with a life-changing souvenir. On July 8, Anita Maddux, 50, was charged with a felony for possessing a 10-milliliter sample bottle of cannabidiol (CBD) oil from Cid’s, a Taos, New Mexico, health food store. Now Maddux could face up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine pending an August hearing. Independent of that incident, local and state law enforcement showed up to Lucky’s Market and Jackson Whole Grocer two weeks later to inform those stores that CBD products were illegal to sell if they contain THC, the psychoactive component of cannabis. Both stores have since removed those products from their shelves. Most CBD oil sold in stores like Lucky’s and JWG purport to contain .3 percent or less THC, an amount that does not have mind-altering effects as outlined in the 2014 federal Farm Bill.<br>
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+<br>Third party lab analysis obtained by [Buckrail](https://www.buzznet.com/?s=Buckrail) shows that Maddux’s CBD oil was under that threshold at .06 total THC. Indeed, as other states loosen cannabis laws and federal lawmakers sponsor legislation to do the same, Wyoming remains a dubious place to possess a hemp-derived product with even trace amounts of THC. It is a felony offense in Wyoming to sell, buy or possess more than .03 grams of CBD oil containing any amount of THC. However, manufacturers maintain that if their product contains traces of up to .3 percent it is [perfectly](https://search.usa.gov/search?affiliate=usagov&query=perfectly) legal, sowing confusion for state residents and retailers. At Cid’s, Maddux worked as an herbalist in the health and wellness department where she received a sample shipment of [BalanceBloom CBD](https://mopsw.nic.in/sagarvidyakosh/index.php?title=CBD_Oil_For_Pets) oil from Functional Remedies. The Colorado company’s CBD oil was on the shelves at Lucky’s Market in Jackson when she was arrested. Lucky’s did not return several requests for comment nor did the attorney representing Functional Remedies, Garrett Graff of Hoban Law Group.<br>
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+<br>CBD is a non-psychoactive compound found in cannabis plants with a slew of reported health benefits. The Food and Drug Administration just approved it to treat epilepsy in the form of the new drug Epidiolex. Cannabidiol may also treat everything from Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s to depression, anxiety, inflammation and pain, according to the World Health Organization. The WHO’s Expert Committee on Drug Dependence also recently said CBD does not have abuse or dependence potential. CBD’s potential health benefits continue to emerge. According to a July 30 study in Nature, mice with pancreatic cancer that were treated with CBD and chemotherapy lived three times longer than mice treated with chemotherapy alone. Before her drive from New Mexico to Montana to care for her mother who has stage 4 colon cancer, Maddux placed the sample bottle in her bag and didn’t give it another thought. Maddux uses CBD oil for her own chronic back pain-she has a missing disc between her L1 and L2 vertebrae.<br>
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+<br>CBD oil, she said, had brought her some relief, though she took it only sporadically. Despite the WHO’s recent findings, in the United States, CBD is a Schedule 1 drug under the Controlled Substances Act, meaning the federal government does not recognize its medicinal uses and considers it to have a high likelihood for abuse. That classification hasn’t stopped its proliferation. CBD oil has fueled a multimillion dollar industry online and at health food stores across the country. In September 2017, the retail giant Target was the first mega-chain to dip its toes into the cannabidiol waters. It wasn’t a pioneer for long, though. It pulled the products from its online shelves after just a few weeks. One month later, Lucky’s made the leap, becoming the first chain natural grocer to carry CBD products. So why are mom and pop health stores and some chain retailers carrying the products if they are illegal?<br>