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Food And Drugs Authority Has Not Approved Marijuana (Wee) Bitters

The Food and Drugs Authority, FDA, are in charge of food and drugs safety in the country; this is according to Mr. Eric Darko, Regulations officer for the FDA in the eastern region. He said if a firm wants to produce bitters, they are required to undergo and satisfy certain guidelines being granted the permit to produce.

In an interview with Rite news, Mr. Darko debunked remours that his outfit, the FDA, grants producers of some alcoholic beverages the go ahead to include Marijuana (WEE) as an ingredient to the bitters. Mr. Darko emphasized that his outfit had no such powers to grant anybody powers regarding narcotic substances since that is the core functions of the Narcotics Control Board.

He reiterated that producers of drugs may require some amount of narcotics in which case the FDA readily makes the permit and substances available for. According to him this is all to it and the FDA does not grant producers of alcoholic beverages the permit to produce wee bitters.

He said the authority swiftly moves in to investigate anybody suspected to be engaged in mixing narcotics with their bitters and culprits found to be engaging in this stand the risk of prosecution whose penalty is Gh c 250, 000 if found guilty.

He called on the general public to be vigilant and be on the lookout for producers who engaged in this unholy practice.

Source: ritefmonline.org

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