Mexico's legal cannabis business takes next step with CBD-focused firm

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Mexico's nascent legal cannabis industry on Thursday welcomed its first company authorized to grow at commercial scale, focused on a booming niche market that mostly sidesteps the mind-altering qualities of the plant's flowers.

The health regulator had to approve the permits after Mexico's Supreme Court in late 2021 gave Xebra Brands' subsidiary Desart MX a partial greenlight to import seeds, and grow, process, sell and export cannabis products with 1% or less THC, the plant's psychoactive substance.

Desart MX, however, is more focused on marketing products with another of the plant's components known as cannabidiol, or CBD, which does not make users high but is used to treat ailments such as insomnia, pain and anxiety.Xebra Brands said it faces no restrictions where it can grow cannabis in Mexico, the size of cultivation facilities or processing volumes.

"This represents an important moment for cannabis globally," Xebra Brands CEO Jay Garnett said in the statement. Xebra Brands said it is actively looking for farm land and a site to build an extraction facility to produce CBD-rich hemp derivatives.in late 2021, the firm's former president said regulatory authorizations would position Mexico as the industry's most important North American player.

In 2021, Mexican lawmakers approved a law to decriminalize cannabis for recreational, scientific, medical, and industrial uses, but key regulations remain stalled in the Senate.

 

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