The Minister of Health wants to ban this legal joint that has become very popular in France. HHC, a molecule derived from cannabis, currently over-the-counter, due to a legal loophole.
No clinical studies have been carried out on HHC. Experts are unanimous: banning it makes sense, but we need proof of its dangerousness, says addictologist William Lowenstein. It will be up to the Agency for the Safety of Medicines to decide whether HHC is a narcotic.