Despite prohibitions from the Swedish Food Agency and the Swedish Medicines Agency, it is easy as a private individual to get hold of CBD products. This is because the Swedish Customs Service has to let them in, reports Ekot.
Customs has no authority to control medicines from another EU country, even though there is a ban in Sweden. It may only check the packages it believes contain narcotics.
But the Swedish Customs Service now wants to change that.
– We want to see that a permit is also required from an EU country, says Ivan Arcabic, head of preliminary investigations at the customs crime department in Gothenburg, to the radio.
CBD is a product extracted from industrial hemp that contains the drug-classified THC. It is common for CBD to come in the form of oil and it is often marketed as “a legal, natural way to treat, among other things, pain, anxiety and sleep problems,” according to Ekot. However, the Swedish Medicines Agency has classified many of the products as “illegal medicines”.