1) An update folks & I'm going to tell it to you straight!
IMO the existing CBD industry is being targeted by an unknown force of agitation within Government, likely the Dept of Health.
On behalf of this mandate, Revenue Customs are now seizing literally anything they can.
IMO the existing CBD industry is being targeted by an unknown force of agitation within Government, likely the Dept of Health.
On behalf of this mandate, Revenue Customs are now seizing literally anything they can.
2) Yesterday morning, our Galway Manager arrived to the office to find 3 Seizure letters. One for 2kg of flower (OK we get that), one for 10kg of dried hemp leaves (THC free?!) & the final for 60 bottles of explicitly THC-free hempseed oil we sell FOR PETS. It's a salad dressing!
3) In the seizure notices, the language used now is "suspected THC-infused oil", or for the dried hemp leaves (which by the way, I could roll into a 10kg spliff, smoke the lot and be sober as a fence-post) "suspected THC infused product".
But here's the thing.
But here's the thing.
4) The tea leaves and dog oil landed in Ireland early October but it's only now we're receiving the notices. Customs couldn't get them tested in a month? Even if we do get the product back, likely we can't sell it after sitting god knows where for the last 4 weeks?
There's more.
There's more.
5) The previous week, when seizing 80 tubs of hemp moisturiser from us, Revenue Customs *literally misrepresented the contents of the package to us*, in writing, in a debacle of an email chain.
It's almost like they see a Little Collins address, seize first, ask questions later!
It's almost like they see a Little Collins address, seize first, ask questions later!
6) LC: Those balms are THC-free.
CUSTOMS: No they're not, there was a Cert in the box displaying THC.
LC: No there was not. That supplier only *ever* ships balms with the EU Organic cert, we have digitals of the Labs. Supplier backed this up via email.
CUSTOMS: We retract that.
CUSTOMS: No they're not, there was a Cert in the box displaying THC.
LC: No there was not. That supplier only *ever* ships balms with the EU Organic cert, we have digitals of the Labs. Supplier backed this up via email.
CUSTOMS: We retract that.
7) cont'd
CUSTOMS: However, we looked up the product on your website & there it mentions THC.
LC: That's a disclaimer legal reasons.
CUSTOMS: We're seizing them.
I mean, I could have written monkey's have wings on that webpage! A footnote on a site = grounds for seizure now?
CUSTOMS: However, we looked up the product on your website & there it mentions THC.
LC: That's a disclaimer legal reasons.
CUSTOMS: We're seizing them.
I mean, I could have written monkey's have wings on that webpage! A footnote on a site = grounds for seizure now?
8) What's most frustrating is!
They sat on those Dog Oils for a month & not once did they look up that VERY SAME WEBSITE, i.e. ours, & see the product is indeed THC-free!!
Two sets of rules, one for them and one for everyone else!
Seize first, ask question later.
Finally --
They sat on those Dog Oils for a month & not once did they look up that VERY SAME WEBSITE, i.e. ours, & see the product is indeed THC-free!!
Two sets of rules, one for them and one for everyone else!
Seize first, ask question later.
Finally --
9) In the official State Laboratory's 2020-2023 Strategic Plan, testing CBD products for <0.2% THC at the various ports is explicitly mentioned as a service to be provided to both State and public entities (IE the industry).
WHY HASN'T THIS HAPPENED?
#CannabisReformIreland
WHY HASN'T THIS HAPPENED?
#CannabisReformIreland
10) WHY IS GOVERNMENT AGGRESSIVELY DETERMINED to literally destroy the existing industry operators, apart from generic chains?
Greed. Influence. Control.
The State & their business partners want the CBD industry all to themselves.
It has ZERO to do with public health!
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Greed. Influence. Control.
The State & their business partners want the CBD industry all to themselves.
It has ZERO to do with public health!
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11) And I don't mean to trash Customs here particularly, I don't like doing that but by god they're making our lives almost unbearable. The people we've dealt with at Customs have been largely sound and from all reports, they want this mess sorted like everyone else.
12) However the psychological toll of this ongoing war - a war we never asked for - has brought us to this point.
Make no mistake, it's a strategic battle. & Little Collins will NEVER GIVE UP!
Legals have been instructed to take it all the way if needed, highest Courts in EU.
Make no mistake, it's a strategic battle. & Little Collins will NEVER GIVE UP!
Legals have been instructed to take it all the way if needed, highest Courts in EU.
13) That's it. Brain-dump rant over, I hope this little snapshot (and that's what it is folks, but a small snapshot) of life in this industry gives you an impression of what is actually going on.
It's pure madness - and something MUST change soon!!
#StopTheCBDSeizures
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It's pure madness - and something MUST change soon!!
#StopTheCBDSeizures
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14) PS:
Our High Court Judicial Review was again adjourned in October just gone by. It's up for Mention in December, at which point, legals have instructed they're expecting a Hearing Date. Time will tell!
@HempFedIreland @paulmurphy_TD @lukeming @evadiminutive @sanzscript
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Our High Court Judicial Review was again adjourned in October just gone by. It's up for Mention in December, at which point, legals have instructed they're expecting a Hearing Date. Time will tell!
@HempFedIreland @paulmurphy_TD @lukeming @evadiminutive @sanzscript
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