The Trump administration is reviewing draft recommendations aimed at promoting young people\u2019s health\u2014including proposals to increase awareness about the impact of THC, vapes and the kratom-derived compound known as 7-OH.<\/p>\n
The leaked draft document appears to be responsive to an executive order President Donald Trump signed in February establishing a \u201cMake America Healthy Again Commission,\u201d overseen by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/p>\n
Amid the myriad recommendations is one directing the U.S. surgeon general to \u201claunch an education and awareness initiative on the impact of alcohol, controlled substances, vaping, and THC on children\u2019s health.\u201d<\/p>\n
Additionally, it calls on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Make America Healthy Again Commission (ATF) to \u201cincrease enforcement on illegal Chinese manufactured vaping products, and educate parents and businesses that the Administration will not allow unapproved vaping products targeting children to continue flooding our country.\u201d<\/p>\n
It also addresses another timely issue related to kratom, requiring FDA to \u201ceducate the public regarding the dangers of synthetic opioids products such as 7-OH (which is distinct from natural kratom) and coordinate enforcement against dangerous unlawful products being marketed to American children.\u201d<\/p>\n
FDA has recommended that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) schedule the compound<\/a> under the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA)\u2014drawing criticism from kratom stakeholders who oppose the outright ban<\/a>.<\/p>\n The draft report from HHS, which coordinated with multiple other agencies on the recommendations, has not been finalized. But The New York Times, which obtained the \u201cMake Our Children Healthy Again Strategy\u201d document<\/a> from a former administration official, reported<\/a> that it was set to be presented to Trump last week ahead of a key deadline, and that a final report is expected in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n This comes as the administration and Congress are looking at other key cannabis proposals, including the Biden administration-initiated plan to move marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III of the CSA.<\/p>\n That process has been stalled for months, but the president recently said that a decision would be made within weeks<\/a>. Key influencers in the MAGA world have expressed mixed opinions about the reform, which would not legalize cannabis but would let state-licensed marijuana businesses take federal tax deductions and help address current research barriers for the Schedule I substance.<\/p>\n Lawmakers have also been focused on THC policy related to hemp, a crop that was federally legalized during Trump\u2019s first term under the 2018 Farm Bill. A controversial proposal to ban hemp products containing any \u201cquantifiable\u201d amount of THC is currently being negotiated after being removed from a Senate agriculture spending bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n For his part, Kennedy\u2014who serves as chairman of the Make America Healthy Again Commission under the president\u2019s executive order\u2014was vocal about his support for marijuana legalization when he was running for president as a Democratic and then an independent, as well as during his time on the Trump transition team. But he\u2019s been more muted on the issue since being confirmed.<\/p>\n During an interview in February, however, he said: \u201cI hear stories all the time of the impacts of marijuana on people<\/a>\u2014and the really catastrophic impacts on them.\u201d<\/p>\n Photo courtesy of Brian Shamblen<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n The post Trump Reviews Recommendation To Highlight Harms Of Marijuana And Other Drugs For Young People<\/a> appeared first on Marijuana Moment<\/a>.<\/p>\n
The Trump administration is reviewing draft recommendations aimed at promoting young people\u2019s health\u2014including proposals to increase awareness about the impact of THC, vapes and the kratom-derived compound known as 7-OH. The leaked draft document appears to be responsive to an executive order President Donald Trump signed in February establishing aContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,81],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82863,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82862\/revisions\/82863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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